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Focussing on the compound case particle 'niyotte'
Masako ISHIJIMA, Sanae ITO
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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This study aimed to examine the contents of a Japanese course for learners majoring in science or engineering. In this study, the usage of the compound case particle 'niyotte' and its variants in a physics textbook were analyzed. The findings were that (1) 'niyotte' is frequently used to demonstrate logic in physics; (2) the meaning of 'niyotte' differs when indicating preconditions and definitions, when doing a calculation according to a formula, as well as when describing causal relationships. Therefore, the usage of the compound case particle 'niyotte' needs to be studied in connection with the logical structure of physics.
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Izumi UMEDA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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The purpose of this research is to introduce the practical use of new communication channels to the Japanese language learners by information technology and multimedia. The web pages of the Japanese Language Course were made for Monbusho Scholarship Students. Because of a setting up of the right to access the web pages, the students could easily interact with the Japanese volunteers and teachers in the bulletin board on the web. The role of the pages falls three categories. First, it introduces the course contents to the audience. Secondly, it widens the interaction between Japanese people and learners. Thirdly, it becomes a good learning resource. The result of the research shows that the web gives more communication channels in Japanese to the learners.
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Kazuyo YAMAGUCHI, Yasuko UMEDA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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Recently, there has been an increase in the number of universities that grant foreign students admission without finishing a Japanese preparatory course. Therefore, there is a need for a new course to develop Japanese language proficiency for use in an academic context. In this paper, we report our attempt to design a new course for the foreign students in the Faculty of Policy Studies of Nanzan University. In this course foreign students are required to take some academic classes with Japanese students as well as Japanese classes from their freshman year in order to graduate university in 4 years.
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Izumi YAMAMOTO, Nobumasa TAKEUCHI, Yo USAMI, Chihiro TSUCHIYA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
8-9
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The following paper will introduce the video project of the students for the Japanese language class. The authors try to prove that their video project can be an effective method to develop foreign students' ability of learning Japanese language, especially because it utilizes the drama form, focusing on dialogue. (Actually, it was proposed as a workshop for the multi-cultural communication class by Usami. The possible effects of the project could be that: 1) it would stimulate foreign students' motivation for expressing themselves and develop their ability of presentation., 2) students would learn the various forms of speech through role-playing, and 3) utilizing machines would positively activate the class activity. The authors will describe report on the project and even point out some problems of the project.
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Shigeo MIYAMOTO
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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This study investigates the process of Hiragana acquisition by American children. Research conducted in Connecticut, 1999, revealed the readability and writability of each Hiragana. The trends are similar to those of Japanese native children and the morphological resemblance and the syllabic resemblance between Hiragana letters affect negatively to the acquisition. It will be important to consider these results for the learning and teaching of Hiragana as a second language.
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Takako TODA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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The aim of this study is to investigate some paralinguistic aspects of aizuchi in Japanese. There are many previous studies on back-channels in the context of form, frequency and function, but one area not yet completely understood is paralinguistic aspects such as timing, duration, intonation and pause. Investigations in this area concerning aizuchi by Japanese learners have just begun. This paper reports the results obtained from Japanese native speakers to be used for baseline data.
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Shizu ONODERA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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In July 2000, a meeting of the teacher trainees of Japanese language was held in Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University. Teacher trainees gave lessons by using a Japanese TV drama. Before that, they tried to make teaching materials for learners by trial and error. In the process, it became clear that they had a problem to identify goals in the class (to understand a plot, to study grammar, and so on). It also became clear that setting the goals tends to restrict an instructor's perspective regarding creative thinking. The conclusion is that teacher trainees need a lot of time to achieve their objectives. And it is important for the future to think over whether teaching materials are suitable for Japanese classes.
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Tomoko KAMADA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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In the process of developing self-learning CAI "Japanese Drill" software, it was found that the minimal-aim principle and the step-structure take an important role. I propose the restructuring of the former "Japanese conjugation drill" software into small parts, according to this guide line. Then applying this new method to "Japanese particle drill" software proves its validity. It clearly points out the importance of the minimal-aim principle and the step-structure.
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Nobuko FUKUTOME, Yoshimi NISHIMURA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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The purpose of this study is to suggest an effective way of teaching Japanese to Korean students in a limited time. In our study, students were asked to write a composition about a cartoon and immediately after, they were interviewed in Japanese and Korean about their errors. The results were as follows: 1 The students showed an insufficient understanding of the differences in the voice system in the two languages 2 The formal complexitity of the Korean voice system makes the acquisition of the Japanese voice expressions difficult.
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Toshiyuki KAWANO
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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Previous studies on teaching segmental sounds have focused on ad hoc pronunciation correction. Such studies have not been conducted based on the usual curriculum of pronunciation teaching. In this study, we maintain that systematic phonetic teaching materials based on students' monitoring abilities are essential, particularly for learners in the heterogeneous classroom. Also, a tentative curriculum plan for pronunciation teaching is presented and discussed.
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Akemi TERA, Toshiko HOSAKA, Miyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya KITAMURA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
22-23
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In the research of the reading process of Japanese language learners, we recognized the action which Non-Kanji learners (students who live in an environment where Kanji is not utilized) used the function to refer an electric dictionary extensively when they read Japanese sentences (See 1, 2). In this research, we planned an experiment to understand what kinds of word information do Non-Kanji Japanese language learners need in reading Japanese. The experiment consisted of analyzing words which learners accessed when they read Japanese sentences. The result showed that Non-Kanji Japanese language learners had a tendency toward requiring information "Na"-adjectives, "Sahen"-nouns, and complex verbs.
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Miwako OHBA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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The purpose of this study is to review ways of analyzing information in teaching materials by identifying the information that is written unintentionally and establishing the causes for such information. Teaching materials contain not only practical information such as sentence patterns, grammar, and conversation strategies for learning purposes, but also information that was unconsciously and unintentionally written by the authors. Students, whether they consciously or not, receive various types of information from teaching materials. There are two approaches taken in this study to identify unintentional information: 1) analyzing the overall tendency of the information; and 2)analyzing individual topics following the course of study. Based on these two analyses, this study will try to indicate that unintentional information such as: 1) main characters being male; and 2) teachers being male can be perceived from teaching materials, and to establish possible causes for such information.
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Tomoko HONGO, Mayumi YAMAZAKI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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This paper introduces a series of grammatical tasks applying English-Japanese translation strategies for research students. These tasks enhance the learners in noticing specific linguistic forms during the translation process to produce meaningful output. The results of carrying out such tasks show that the learners are able to produce cohesive Japanese texts, using target linguistic forms, when they comprehend clearly the notions that have been expressed in the original context.
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Yoshiro OGAWARA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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This study aims to examine native Japanese speakers' (university students') evaluation of foreigners' Japanese pronunciation. The result of a questionnaire survey showed that the evaluation was roughly divided into "acceptable" and "unacceptable" and that the evaluation was influenced by various factors. This study also suggested that it was crucial for the examination of native Japanese speakers' evaluation to take into consideration their consciousness and mental attitudes towards those influential factors.
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Akiko MEGURO, Wipawee LUANGMETTAKUL, Sang-mok LEE, Akemi YASUI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
30-31
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We developed this Multimedia on-line Japanese program in order to teach living Japanese as spoken by Japanese university students. The main feature of this web site is a series of video clips showing a day in the life of a college student, Takeshi. We used streaming technology to provide movie clips on the web. This on-line teaching material is developing with feedback from overseas learners and teachers.
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How much progress results from simple repetition?
Fumie YOKOSHIMA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
32-33
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From April until September in 2000, classes for Korean and Chinese beginning learners of Japanese used a team-teaching system. Both teachers, however, were inexperienced at class teaching. Each class had 2-hour sessions once a week, and I made videotape recordings of three different classes, 12 sessions each, and analyzed them. Results of the analysis showed that, with experience, the teachers became more successful at guessing from the learners' expressions what they were thinking and whether they understood or not. Also, with experience, the teachers became increasingly skilled at giving appropriate hints and explanations when learners didn't understand.
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Miyuki Usuki
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
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The author has been involved in Japanese language teacher education in a private institution. In the teaching methodology classes, student-teachers had opportunities for self-reflections and mutual evaluations. It is the author's belief that in order to promote prospective teachers' creativity and thinking skills, a new direction is needed for teacher development through critical reflections and collaborations.
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Junko TAKAHASHI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
36-37
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This paper is a report on the effects of the introduction of a video drama- making activity in upper-intermediate conversation class. There are two types of discourse: 1) planned discourse (designed and prepared in advance) to accomplish certain tasks, such as making a speech in public. 2) arbitrary discourse which changes depending on the situation, such as a discussion or daily conversation with friends. Video drama-making activities are supposed to contribute to the development of both types of discourse, as well as non-verbal communication skills. It is sometimes difficult for teachers to have students of this level repeat sentences or phrases with the correct and appropriate accent and intonation. During the video- making process, however, students should be willing to practice their lines in order to produce a good film. Some important language usage mistakes were found and corrected efficiently during filming.
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Jun'ichi KAKEGAWA, Masanori SEKIYA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Makoto ITAM ...
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
38-39
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In learning language, it is necessary for the student to comprehend the word/idiom sense and usage of the word/idiom in the sentence, the context which allows to use the word/idiom. Therefore, we propose a system where the students could study as they compare the usage of the word/idiom with the others which they have studied, and might recognize the generality or specialty of the usage of language.
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Sachio HIROSE, Mariko TAKATSUKA, mayumi NISHIMURA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages
40-41
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The purpose is to grasp an preliminary examination and the characteristics in voice of Vietnamese to make a voice textbook for mother language separated. The voice manuscript composed of the example based on the actual Vietnamese life was made. The data that a southern dialect Vietnamese uttered the manuscript in the place were recorded and voice evaluation by the second language educators was done.
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