日本故事選読の授業における文化的要素について–「浦島太郎」「瘤取りじいさん」「鶴の恩返し」を例として–

日本故事選課程的文化要素──以「浦島太郎」「取下肉瘤的老公公」「白鶴報恩」為例（An Overview of the Cultural Meanings of Japanese Folktales: Taking「 Urashima Taro」「The Old Man Who Has a Lump」「The Crane Lady」for example）

日本故事選如文字所述，是以日本的民間故事為主。學習者剛學完一年級的基本句型、文法之後，立刻面對句子較長且複雜的文章時，該如何去學習？除了語學的學習外，各個故事裡有其特殊的文化要素，應該如何去讀解，這是指導者該擔負的責任。本論文採自主婦與生活社所出版的『對小孩子說的故事212 話』裡的3 篇故事「浦島太郎」「取下肉瘤的老公公」「白鶴報恩」的故事為例，來探討學習者如何解讀不同文化？本論文將分別從有關《浦島太郎》的時間感覺、「取下肉瘤的老公公」─洞窟的記號、《白鶴報恩》裡的禁忌來探討故事裡的文化要素。 How should sophomore students accommodate themselves whenshifting from freshman’s basic sentence pattern and grammar into muchlonger sentence and complicated article, let alone the intimidatingonomatopoeia that has not been studied yet? However, teacher of thissubject ought to guide the students to comprehend the specific culturalmeanings in Japanese folktales other than language study.Based on three famous folktales: 「 Urashima Taro」「The Old ManWho Has a Lump」 and「The Crane Lady」selected from「212 stories forchildren」, the author intends to explore how learners perceive differentculture, and how should the teacher elucidate the learner's problems so asto help them understand the contexts.