Teaching the Subjunctive Mood and the As-if Clause to Japanese High School Students

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  • 仮定法とAs if構文を日本人高校生にどう教えるか

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This paper discusses how the subjunctive mood and the as-if subjunctive clause should be taught to senior high school English students in the Japanese context. Because the subjunctive mood has no counterpart in Japanese, it and one of its usages, the as-if subjunctive clause, are among the most difficult grammatical items for Japanese learners of English, especially high school students learning them for the first time. Accordingly, we arrange some target usages of the subjunctive mood and the as-if subjunctive clause progressively so that they can be as easily understood as possible. Then, we grammatically analyze each of those usages, discussing how to teach each and, indeed, whether it should be taught at all.

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