"Jishobiki” refers mainly to learning using the dictionary. "Jishobiki" uses the dictionary to make it possible to investigate problems in everyday life and things that appear in children's lives by giving a dictionary to early primary school students who start to learn letters themselves. It is a learning method to try to teach how to learn, and how to learn by themselves. It is a learning method that teaches the attitude to learn vocabulary by themselves and the ability to read and write new words."Jishobiki" is the process of writing the word searched in a dictionary on a sticky note and sandwiching it in a dictionary. Even in elementary school first grade students, thousands of sticky notes are put into the dictionary.Traditionally, in National Curriculum in Japan (Gakusyuu Shidou Youryo), a very unprecedented guidance of introducing dictionary learning was taught from the third grade of elementary school, and there were few examples of introducing it from the first grade of elementary school at the same time as teaching letters. However, since the publication of “From age 7, use a dictionary and expand your knowledge” by Subaru-sha Publishers, conduction of dictionary guidance began in lower elementary school grades all across the country in not only elementary schools, but also cram schools, families, etc.

Faculty of Contemporary Education, Chubu University Dr Keisuke Fukaya