In this paper, college students were interested in the difficulty of words that combined katakana, hiragana and kanji, and as a result, they investigated words composed of words using magazines. In conclusion, both fashion magazines and sports magazines revealed that there are rules in how words are made. And it became clear that there are few difficult words. Whether the words of magazines are difficult or not depends on the vocabulary of the reader.

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Research of expressions accompanying “-teoku” has been conducted from the standpoints of aspect and mood. The research described herein involves observations concerning the communication function of “-teoku.” The research is conducted from the perspective of a third party. A questionnaire survey of Japanese people was taken when establishing communication function. The research confirmed communication function of expressions accompanying “-teoku,” including “conveys a implied significance,” “leaves interpretation up to the listener,” and “provides unobtrusive feeling.” In all cases, it expresses “personal consideration.” Japanese people utilize this function subconsciously in ordinary conversation. They also use it to mutually communicating each their intentions. By conveying these characteristics to foreigners, they may learn the skill of personal consideration in a natural manner.

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This is a practical report based on a case study research in the classes for Japanese Phonetic in 2016. For this academic year, I tried to use a CALL（Computer-Assisted Language Learning） system class room to co nsider the question: How do Japanese teachers teach Japanese Phonetic? In addition, I would like to introduce the Results and Issues s of the new initiatives of the 2016 academic year.

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The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) to second/foreign language (L2/FL), also known as Intensive French, is widely implemented in Canada. Since 2009, another adaptation has been implanted in China, the education culture of which bears more similarity to that of Japan. This article examines the most effective application of NLA in Japanese universities, considering the Japanese educational culture.

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This paper further examines the interference between the indicative usage which became clear from the investigation by Ryu (2013). Studies on second language acquisition are mostly researches on learning processes from the standpoint of “interfering with mother tongue” and the position of “interlanguage” which is a language system peculiar to learners. Under these circumstances, we found that both “mother tongue interference” and “interlanguage” appear in the investigation by Ryu (2013). In addition, it became clear that the usage of indicators learned in elementary level has influence on mid and advanced instructional learning, making acquisition difficult. Based on these results, in this paper we picked up the learning process of on - site instructional usage even in the usage of indicators. Then, I focused on the influence between its usage.

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This research was aimed at studying clarify what learners think about “Native Teacher(NT) needs a learner’s mother tongue proficiency”. I asked for cooperation with universities in China’s Inner Mongolia, and about 80% of students with quantitative data showed “necessity of NT who has Chinese proficiency” by questionnaire survey. Analysis of free description responses was analyzed by the KJ method, and [improvement], [lack of proficiency of learner], [communication strategy] were extracted as important keys.

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This article is about how students who did not grow up with the Japanese writing system, study kanji. This study compares non-native Japanese learners overseas and non-native Japanese learners in Japan. According to the results, non-native Japanese learners in Japan tend to use the following strategy: “I try to guess the meaning of a kanji by its radicals and form.” They use this strategy more than non-native Japanese learners overseas. Therefore further research is needed in the future.

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