郭俊海 GUO Junhai
シンガポールはバイリンガル教育の「先進国」として名を馳せているが，日本語を含む多様な外国語教育にも熱心な国であることはあまり知られていない。英語と各民族語のバイリンガル教育を立国の礎に据えたシンガポールに，なぜ外国語が必要か，国民に様々な外国語を学ばせる利点と目的は何か。英語と各民族語を公用語としながらも外国語教育も拡大している，その多言語教育の実態及び日本の外国語教育への示唆について考察する。
The State of Multilingual Education in Singapore
Although Singapore is well-known as a “developed nation” when it comes to bilingual education, it is not so widely known that Singapore also eagerly promotes the teaching of a variety of foreign languages, including Japanese. With English and ethnic language bilingual education as the cornerstone of Singapore’s nation-building, why is foreign language important, and how does it benefit the citizens? This workshop will examine how foreign language education is expanding in Singapore, whose official languages include English and the ethnic languages, and consider the implications of this for foreign language education in Japan.