최근 10여년 사이에 교육과정은 2007, 2009, 2015, 교육과정이 고시된 해를 기준으로 하여 3차례 개정되었으며 그 사이에도 조금씩 수시 개정이 이뤄지고 있다. 이러한 변화 속에서 7차 교육과정의 큰 줄기 아래에서 최근 개정된 2007, 2009, 2015개정교육과정을 고찰하고 그 차이를 분석하여, 고등학교 일본어 교육 의 흐름을 파악하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 2009개정에서부터 고등학교에서는 선택 교육과정의 특색을 살려 학생들의 진로와 적성을 감안한 적정학습이 이루어질 수 있도록 하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 일본어 수업 시간은 2009개정시기부터 감소하고 있음을 알 수 있고, 일본어1 기준에서 학습해야 할 어휘는 500여 개로 동일하나 의사소통 기능 표현이 개정을 거듭함에 따라 증가함을 알 수 있다.

This paper analyzed dialogues in high school Japanese textbooks published according to the 2007 revised national curriculum, based on sociolinguistic variables and dialogue structure rules. The findings are as follows: first, the analysis of the construction of the textbooks shows that dialogues take place most frequently in the areas of speaking and listening while dialogues appear in the area of writing at the lowest rate of 10 percent. Secondly, the analysis of the dialogues based on sociolinguistic variables shows that in most textbooks dialogues take place in various places such as houses, stores, schools, streets and restaurants, but places in some dialogues are not identified. As for the topics of the dialogues, leisure and hobbies, traveling, food, and giving directions are the most common topics. There are many dialogues which do not have any specific topics but include basic expressions for communication. Moreover, most dialogues do not identify clear relation among participants, which needs to be improved. Lastly, the analysis of the dialogue structure rules finds that as for the length of the dialogue, one or two rounds of exchanging of talks are the most common and in the most cases the format of taking turns of speaking is the set of A-B-A-B, which indicates that the dialogues are very simply structured. The cases of adjacent pairs are mainly focused on question and answer sets. From the analyses, it is found that if we figure out the characteristics and problems of dialogues appearing in current Japanese textbooks and include the sociolinguistic variables and diverse dialogue structure rules into the dialogues to construct more authentic dialogues, the dialogues provided in the high school Japanese textbooks will be a lot more helpful to improve the learners’ communicative ability.