ABSTRACT \nUCHI-SOTO (INSIDE-OUTSIDE): LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN \nCONTEXT FOR THE JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN \nLANGUAGE (JFL) LEARNER \nby \n?? Jamie Louise Goekler 2010 \nMaster of Arts in Teaching International Languages \nCalifornia State University, Chico \nFall 2010 \nJapanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) learners have frequently been exposed \nto learning materials which are neither contextualized culturally nor linguistically \nfrom the target language perspective. This research review addresses the cultural and \ncommunicative gaps which exist in many JFL textbooks and enhances JFL students??? \nawareness of similarities and differences between the Japanese culture and their own. \nTo teach JFL from an emic perspective, teachers must first provide students with cultural \nand communicative content that matches target culture and linguistic norms; students \nmust come to recognize the meaning of uchi (insider) and soto (outsider) if they \nare to communicate from an insider perspective. This body of research provides information \non cultural, linguistic, and paralinguistic factors essential to communicative \ncompetence \nx \nin Japanese. This information will help JFL students develop communicative competence \nby becoming linguistic and cultural insiders, viewing Japanese from an emic perspective. \nStudents will also learn about the implications of insider relationships and \nhow they influence language and social relations. This research details uchi-soto relationships, \nhierarchy, honorific language use, communication styles and strategies, gendered \nlanguage, and aidzuchi (Japanese discourse markers and techniques).