Development of a VA shadowing method for improving the listening skills of Japanese

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13246
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Jissen Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Nakayama Tomokazu 実践女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (10552763)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 古本 裕美 長崎大学, 国際教育リエゾン機構, 准教授 (80536326) ; 濱田 陽 秋田大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 准教授 (00588832) ; 山内 博之 実践女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (20252942)
• Research Collaborator: NOGUCHI Masaru Faculty of International Business and Communicationon Zuyd University, Applied Sciences, 講師
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: VA shadowing / VV shadowing / shadowing / 漢字の読み方

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to develop a VA shadowing method to improve the listening skills of Japanese by facilitating the learning of Kanji pronunciation. The two-year study revealed that for novice learners, both the VA method group, where learners are repeatedly exposed to Kanji pronunciation, and the VV method group, where learners are repeatedly exposed to Kanji and hiragana (phonetic alphabet), are possibly equally effective in improving the learning of Kanji pronunciation. Additionally, the pre-posttest comparison among elementary school students revealed that only the post-test scores of the highest graders in the VA method group improved significantly, while none of the differences in the other groups were significant. Based on these findings, this study concluded that the VA shadowing method is most effective in improving the learning of Kanji pronunciation among advanced learners.

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