For our classes, we use two main textbooks: GENKI and Irodori . GENKI is already widely used by many educational institutions and, in my opinion, is one of the most reliable Japanese-language textbooks available today. I have also used it in my own teaching for many years. However, since GENKI was first published, approaches to Japanese-language education have changed considerably. Rather than focusing only on learning grammar and vocabulary, language education has increasingly placed importance on what learners can actually do using the target language. One approach based on this idea is known as the action-oriented approach . Perhaps partly because of this shift, I have sometimes felt that, as learners progress through GENKI , it becomes somewhat less clear what specific real-life tasks they should be able to accomplish after completing each lesson. Irodori , on the other hand, was developed with these newer approaches to language education in mind, and it makes very clear what l...
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