The study of the importance for kanji reading proficiency in the Japanese lexical knowledge -Toward an application to the online test-

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580095
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Saito Nobuhiro 九州大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 准教授 (20600125)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OHGA Chiharu 九州大学, 留学生センター, 准教授 (50403928) ; YAMATO Yuko 大阪大学, 日本語日本文化教育センター, 准教授 (80707448)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 語彙能力 / 漢字能力 / 問題項目 / 筆記力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explored how writing proficiencies were related to reading proficiencies among Kanji learners. 4 types of tests were conducted among 81 Japanese language learners: (1) Kanji writing test (90 items); (2) multiple-choice Kanji reading test (60 items); (3) the gap-filling test (30 items); and (4) a true-false test (40 items). The results of ANOVA showed that the Kanji reading score was influenced by the level of grammatical proficiency in both Kanji background learners and non-Kanji background learners. Although Kanji background learners showed high score in the low level group, non-Kanji background learners reached the Kanji background learner's score in the middle and high level groups. To have much vocabularies is not necessarily related to the Kanji writing ability. On the other hand, Kanji reading ability is related to Kanji writing ability.

Free Research Field

第二言語習得、日本語教育、韓国語習得、日本語習得