These experiments were carried out to explore the effect of meaningfulness upon learning to read
kanji and
hiragana moji. The results of a retention test in Experiment I showed that the retention of
kanji reading which is meaningful is better than
hiragana moji which has no meaning. In Experiment II and III, it was indicated that individual
hiragana moji was also learned easier when it was associated with a word (“
sa” of “
sakura” method). However, it was suggested that young children cannot learn the sound values of each
hiragana moji by this method.
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