Abstract
With an aim of searching problems and effective teaching, two surveys were conducted: (1) Comparison between Japanese and students of Japanese on how connective particles are used in given four pairs of sentences. (2) What the students of Japanese keep in mind when they use NONI, TEMO, KEREDO010), and TATTE. The major findings were: I) Most frequently used connective particles in both groups were KEREDO(MO), NONI, TEMO. GA. 2) here was little difference between the two groups in the usage of KEREDO(MO) but 3) there was a remarkable difference in the usage of TEMO, i.e. there were far more students than Japanese who used TEMO for the same sentences. 4) About half of the students know the nuance of NONI, but there was none who referred to NONI's restraints in sentence endings. 5) There were many students who did not know TATTE. With these findings in mind, this paper proposes that diversified expressions should be taught depending upon nuances and sentence endings at an earlier stage before students get into a habit of using only sage but banal expressions.
