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過去問レビュー：第11回

Time for kids October 30, 2017
見出し	TFK Explains: Spain
本文	Spain is a country in Europe that is made up of 17 regions. Catalonia is one of these regions. It is home to 7.5 million people, known as Catalans. They have their own language, customs, and culture. Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, is Spain’s second-largest city. To secede means to withdraw, or separate, from an organization or group. When one part of a country separates from its nation, it secedes. On October 1, people in Catalonia voted to decide whether to secede from Spain. More than 2 million people voted. They overwhelmingly chose to form their own country. Calls for secession are a Catalan tradition. Catalans have discussed independence for decades. Catalonia is one of the wealthiest regions in Spain, and many Catalans feel that they do more to support Spain than Spain does to support Catalonia. Carles Puigdemont is the president of Catalonia. He says the people of Catalonia have the right to determine their own political and economic future. The Spanish government says the vote was unconstitutional. It says anyone who cast a ballot was breaking the law. Spanish courts also said the vote was illegal. Members of Spain’s national police were sent to Catalonia to stop the vote from taking place. Police shot rubber bullets at voters. Officers tried to confiscate ballots. In some cases, they dragged voters out of polling places. Nearly 900 people were injured.

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出題者から皆様へ

最近、英会話の学習法である「音声」を中心とした「situation learning」が各種の研究会などで取り上げられているようです。

確かに英会話の必要性は社会のグローバル化によってますますその必要性が増していますが、言葉は文化と固く結びついているためにひいては私たちのアイデンティティーに直結してるのです。

ですから、音声言語や文字言語の学習にあたって安易に欧米の物まねをするのではなく、自らの文化に根差した異文化の学習法を確立する必要があると思います。その学習法の一つがこの企画なのです。

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