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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Japanese as a foreign language"”.
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Processing Kanji characters in reading Japanese as a Foreign Language
There is an increasing body of research on the role of phonological codes in reading. To investigate whether readers of Japanese as a foreign language use phonological information while processing Kanji characters, readers of Japanese performed memorization of ordered information (Experiment 1) and …
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THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE KATAKANA WORD RECOGNITION TRAINING AMONG NOVICE LEARNERS OF JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
… differ depending on orthographic systems, second language learners with different orthographic backgrounds need to acquire new word recognition strategies suitable to the orthography in their second language. Japanese is a multi-script language and one of the scripts, katakana, is mainly used to …
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A study of learning and teaching of Kanji for nonnative learners of Japanese
… present a serious obstacle of learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Finding an effective and efficient way of teaching them is essential. However, there has not been much research done to investigate how non-native learners of Japanese, in particular English speaking learners, learn …
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Visual novels: video game-style storytelling as a multimodal medium for language learning and instruction
… to videos, and even video games have been increasingly adapted for the foreign language classroom, the use of ""visual novels"", a genre of video games and style of storytelling, has generally been overlooked despite being popularized in Japan beginning in the early 1990s. Visual novels are a …
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Modified output in response to clarification requests and second language
Modified output, second language (L2) learners' reformulation of their own utterances, has been attracting researchers' interest as an important component of learner interactions, and as a manifestation of interlanguage development and psycholinguistic processing. The output hypothesis (Swain, …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), "comprehensible input" (Krashen, 1985) has been considered a critical factor to help learners acquire foreign and second languages (L2). From this perspective, the notion of extensive or free voluntary reading (Day & Bamford, 1998; Krashen, 1993) …
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Using A Diglot Reader to Teach Kanji: The Effects of Audio and Romaji on the Acquisition of Kanji Vocabulary
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a computer-based Japanese/English diglot reader on the breadth and depth of the acquisition of kanji-words. On a diglot reader, L2 text is embedded in L1 text, thus allowing L2 learners to receive enough context to understand the L2 …