| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Concerning the education of written languages around the world, we investigated the actual methodologies in use in approximately ten cases. In reference to our findings, we developed teaching materials for teaching KANJI effectively to students from NON-KANJI cultural backgrounds.
The actual methodologies in use for teaching written language in our sample confirmed our expectations. While in NON-KANJI dominated cultural areas, less than 50 letters are learnt within one year at most, in KANJI dominated cultural areas, at least 1000 characters (about 3500 in China) are taught over a period of 6 or 7 years. Even so, this does not signify the conclusion to the learners' language education.
When we think about methodologies in use for Japanese written language education for foreigners, we can easily observe that students from NON-KANJI cultural backgrounds are driven to despair by learning KANJI.We delineated through our teaching materials a methodology of teaching KANJI that was not vague, but lucid, methodical and compounding.
Besides this, we also experimented with teaching KANJI with computers, in order to create the most effective computer based teaching materials for the students from NON-KANJI cultural backgrounds. Those materials allow the learners to quickly memorize the shape and the meaning of KANJI, and at the same time develop an understanding of the etymological origin of KANJI, thus these materials are applicable not only for foreign learners but also for Japanese children.
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