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Keiko WAKI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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This is a report on the effect of speed reading practice on reading strategies of intermediate/advanced learners. In each class, learners were given 1 to 2 newspaper articles to read within a time limit, followed by some questions on the content. The comments from a questionnaire at the end of the course (which comprised 8 to 9 classes) showed that about 90% of learners felt that the practice was effective, and about half of the learners thought it changed their way of reading. Learners without Kanji background showed a tendency to change their approach from decoding to reading, i. e. reading without stopping at each word, and using inference to cope with unknown words. Speed reading practice was therefore not only effective in increasing reading speed, but also induced better reading strategies.
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Hiroko OKI, Miho GOZU
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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Japanese intern-teachers with interests and knowledge regarding Japanese language teaching are good human resources for learners of the Japanese language. This presentation proposes that in order to effectively utilize intern-teachers as human resources, it is necessary to have cooperation among the four parties: the intern-teachers, their academic advisers, the Japanese learners, and their Japanese teachers. After reviewing the Japanese intern-teacher training session in Shinshu University, we claim three necessary points to be considered for utilizing intern-teachers as human resources: 1) to incorporate the intern session as a part of the course curriculum of the receiving facility 2) to clarify the contents of the training program 3) to research the appropriate length and time of training term for increased effectiveness.
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Mayumi YOKOYAMA, Akane SASAKI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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To meet a request from parents of a non-Japanese child, the first author, an associate instructor of Japanese language in Niigata city, has been teaching Japanese to a child and her mother at school since the beginning of this year. Japanese is a practical and common issue among children who came to Japan recently. Is it an asset for them to learn Japanese together with their mothers at school? Based on the first author's teaching experience and the second author's survey of current situation in Niigata prefecture, the merits and demerits of such classes are analyzed. Sasaki submits the research titled 'Japanese language education for foreign children'
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Atsumi MIYATANI, Atsuko KURONO, Mina KOBAYASHI, Mami DOI, Yuka FUKUNAG ...
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the difference in discourse structures of conversation models on making requests. 23 model conversations were taken from different levels of Japanese textbooks and analyzed. The viewpoints are; 1) the complexity of the discourse structure itself, 2) the complexity of combinations of different types of discourses, 3) the effect of the contents in making requests or relationship between participants in the conversation, 4) non-stereotyped discourse structure in making requests. It is suggested that the discourse structures of intermediate or advanced level textbooks are more interactive and more complex than beginning level.
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The Case of Japanese Adults who are already working
Yoshiro OGAWARA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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This study examines Japanese native speakers' (adults' who are already working) evaluation (their consciousness and mental attitudes) towards foreigners' Japanese pronunciation. The result of questionnaire survey, especially answers to open-ended questions showed that the evaluation was roughly divided into "acceptable" and "unacceptable" and that whether a pronunciation is evaluated as "acceptable" or not depends on the situation of communication. The result also suggested various examples of problems caused by foreigners' Japanese pronunciation in business/professional situations.
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Why cannot learners use a dictionary well?
Yufuko TSUNEKI, Masaki ONO
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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In listening comprehension, we give dictations of radio news programs. The purpose is to understand the sentence patterns, but some Chinese learners cannot write word units, before understanding sentence units. Analyzing the tendency of errors, we can observe a process of false analogy, and in addition they are not good at catching moras.
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Takako SAKAI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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Listening to material which provides enjoyable experiences is important to improve language abilities. Rakugo, a traditional Japanese comedy using verbal and nonverbal communication, was shown to foreign students. In this paper, I explain how I prepared the show to help students better understand Rakugo, then gave a questionnaire and an interview to recorded the students' impressions of the show. Finally, suggestions are provided what students can learn by Rakugo, including prior to and as a follow-up to performances.
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Hajime MOCHIZUKI, Akemi TERA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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In this research, we aim to develop a Japanese text reading support system which is capable of tagging as much information as possible to an original text. We require the system to have two capabilities; link each element in the text with its entry in the dictionary or the database, and give learners advice for comprehending Japanese syntax. In this paper, we describe a design for our system and report the current status of the system.
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Utako TAKEDA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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Interaction in a classroom dose not consist only of learners' responses to teachers questions but also of utterances that learners make on their own initiative. In this paper such utterances are referred to as "self-initiated utterances" and analyzed on the basis of experience gathered at a teaching practice in a beginner-level class. The emphasis is put on examining the types of self-initiated utterances, teacher's response to them and the influence of such utterances on further developments in the class. The result shows that learners make self-initiated utterances mostly when there is something they don't understand. Teachers' reaction included affirmative markers during the learner's utterance, positive remarks after such an utterance and inclusion of the topic into further discussion, which increased learners' motivation and made them use this device more often.
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Tomonori Sato
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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We are teaching Japanese Phonetics using Self-Monitoring in our Intensive Japanese Course. This method motivates the learner to study in order to acquire a natural Japanese pronunciation and has a beneficial effect not only on pronunciation but also on grammar and vocabulary. On the other hand, however, there are also some problems associated with Self-Monitoring.
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Myeongja HEO
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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In this research I analyzed about the descriptions of passive sentences characteristics on Japanese language textbooks that were published in Korea. In those descriptions were emphasized that Japanese passive is more complicate structured than Korean passive on these three points; a) the usage rates of passive sentence in Japanese is higher than in Korean, b) some situation must be expressed by passive in Japanese so that in Korean cannot, c)"(ra)reru" has four meanings which are not observed in passive, voluntarily, potential and passive honorifics. Through this research is also possible to have some understanding on errors in the use of passive sentence by Korean learner.
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Tatsuya KITAMURA, Yoshiko KAWAMURA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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This study presents a reading tutorial system to improve the reading skills of German-speaking learners and Portuguese-speaking learners of Japanese. We have already developed a system for English-speaking learners, and there is a strong need for further language versions. This German and Portuguese version is not only for German-speaking and Portuguese-speaking learner's, but may potentially lead to similar systems for other language speakers. The system can be accessed by learners through the Internet using their WWW browser.
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Yu IGASHIMA, Takako SAKAI, Yukiko HIRAKATA
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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In considering how to develop listening comprehension skills, it is useful to know about sound changes in spoken language. The aim of this paper is to investigate which difficulties learners of Japanese face in understanding sound changes in spoken Japanese. In a listening test focusing on sound changes, we found that learners have a lack of understanding of changed sounds. In order to facilitate acquisition of sound changes, we plan to develop multimedia materials which focus on the sound changes in spoken Japanese.
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Yoko SUZUKI, Yuri SHIMIZU
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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We developed an electronic book, Shinsho Library, which helps advanced students of Japanese improve their extensive reading skills. It also possesses the function which gives additional explanations of the word highlighted such as examples of word usage, synonyms, antonyms and derivatives as well as the simple meaning of the word in English or Chinese. In addition, pronunciation of the kanji is provided in hiragana. This study conducted the trial of Shinsho Library to find how students use the additional explanations provided while reading passages in this electronic book. The student logs illustrate the variety of uses this book provides students; some students consulted the additional word explanations only once whereas the other students read more than 70 explanations of the words.
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Yukiyo YAMASAKI
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages
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In order to equip students with the ability to acquire passive knowledge of foreign words, the author established a number of correspondence rules between the way Japanese Foreign words are written and their original spelling. The following resules were obtained. 1. The test scores improved slightly after introduction of rules. 2. Wrong answeres were characterized by long-sound spelling problems and the influence of mother tongue pronunciation, indicating that the clues provided had not been utilized sufficiently. 3.The results of the questionnarie showed that learners would like to learn foreign words provided there is a good method of doing so. 4.Ther performance of those who have a negative attitude about deliberately learning foreign words, those who started learning Japanese in Japan, and those in the group who had studied English for a relatively long time, tended to view the study of foreign words negatively.
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