摘要：The Ministry of Educations Course of Study Guidelines (Monbusho, 1989, p. 102-107, Table 2) includes a prescribed list of 507 word-forms that must be included in EFL textbooks approved by the Ministry for use in public lower-secondary schools. Discussions with EFL instructors in Japan reveal a broad skepticism among Japanese and native-speaker EFL teachers alike concerning Monbushos prescribed word list and its usefulness for EFL pedagogy. However, very little empirical evidence has been forthcoming on the subject of the effectiveness of the Ministrys list as implemented in Monbusho-approved EFL textbooks.
