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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"kanji"”.
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The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning
Learning kanji (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Japanese writing system) is unique for learners of Japanese who speak Chinese as their first language (L1) due to their ability to transfer their knowledge of L1 hanzi (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Chinese writing system). …
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Computer-assisted learning of Japanese kanji
… problem report is to assist learners of Japanese kanji in remembering the order, direction, and number of strokes for a given kanji. Using OpenGL and the Open Haptics toolkit, the program allows the user to both see and feel the kanji. Using a PHANTOM haptic device, the user can trace the …
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Using A Diglot Reader to Teach Kanji: The Effects of Audio and Romaji on the Acquisition of Kanji Vocabulary
… 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 text and learn vocabulary in it. This study was also conducted to determine the effects of two methods of …
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Processing Kanji characters in reading Japanese as a Foreign Language
… use phonological information while processing Kanji characters, readers of Japanese performed memorization of ordered information (Experiment 1) and cancellation tasks (Experiment 2) involving Kanji characters. Three groups of subjects (intermediate and advanced JFL learners, and native …
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A study of learning and teaching of Kanji for nonnative learners of Japanese
Kanji (Chinese characters) 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 …
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Transfer of the knowledge of Chinese characters to Japanese
… deal of efforts and time are spent on teaching kanji (Chinese characters) to both native and non-native speakers of Japanese. For instance, average Japanese children spend more than ten years learning kanji to achieve functional literacy (Ishii, 1967). Since kanji are used for content words in …
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Beliefs about language learning and their relationship to the ability to integrate information from multiple sources in interpreting novel kanji compounds
… and sentence contexts in interpreting novel kanji compounds (i.e., words consisting of two or more Chinese characters).
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Phonological Priming in Japanese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from Lexical Decision and ERP
… primed by phonologically related logographic (Kanji) words (e.g., 害, /gai/, “harm”) and also when English words (e.g., guide) were primed by phonologically similar phonogram (Katakana) words (e.g.,サイド, /saido/,”side”). In Experiment 1, lexical decisions to English words were facilitated when …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… to influence from the writing system of Japan, Kanji. Three main historical developments affecting JSL numeral signs include increased reliance on Kanji-based representations, a decrease in forms motivated by visual iconicity, and increased standardisation of forms due to a reduction in …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… history such as Goto Shinpei and Ishiwara Kanji, unfortunately, have long overshadowed the far more numerous agricultural colonists. Where historians have incorporated the latter into their studies of colonial Manchukuo, these ""footsoldiers of empire"" have generally been accorded neither …
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Classification of Auscultation Sounds Using a Smart System
Respiratory diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite modern medicine, treatment of lung diseases is limited by the tools available to diagnose these disorders, especially in low resource settings. While tools such as chest x-ray and CT scans are highly accurate, their high cost …
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Power aspects of analysis of variance in various models.
The object of the present work is to study the robustness of the power in Analysis of Variance in relation to the departures from the in-built assumptions (i) equality of variance of the errors, (ii) statistical independence of the errors, and (iii) normality of the errors in fixed and random …
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Vision systems for a mobile robot based on line detection using the Hough Transform and artificial neural networks.
This project contributes to the problem of mobile robot self-navigation within a rectilinear framework based on visual data. It proposes a number of vision systems based on detection of straight lines in images captured by a robot using the Hough transform and artificial neural networks as core …