| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 應用日語研究所 === 105 === The aim of the present study is therefore to investigate what these illustrations represent to the learners and how learners understand them, especially on passive verbs, given verbs, and motion verbs in elementary Japanese textbooks. More specifically, the purpose of the paper is to see whether these illustrations connect to the ‘Japanese viewpoint’ or not. In addition, the present paper used the ‘viewpoints’ and the ‘point of gaze’ concepts proposed by Matsuki (1992) as a research method to determine the consistency between the viewpoints of the illustrations and example sentences.
As the results revealed, despite the sentence patterns, the illustrations in general did not consider the location of the ‘viewpoints’. Usually the illustrations in text books objectively depicted a situation with the third person point of view, namely, from a bystander’s viewpoint. The problem of explaining the illustrations of the same sentence patterns with different understanding concepts (viewpoints) has also been observed in the same teaching materials. Moreover, there are many occasions when the structures of the illustrations did not specify the exact location of the ‘viewpoints’. Especially when expressing the direction of benefit, it is often observed that a single illustration was explained by sentences from many different viewpoints. In sum, the present paper showed that in many elementary Japanese textbooks, the majority of the illustrations do not come from the ‘Japanese viewpoints’, instead they depict the situation objectively from a bystander’s viewpoint.
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