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The V-Te-I- Form and the V-Te-Ar- Form in Japanese
Miura, Akira – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1975
V-Te-I and V-Te-Ar are Japanese verb forms used to express "overlapping," or the relationships of expressions in time. In English these have the form Be-V-Ing. Progressive, concomitant, and stative overlapping are discussed with references to their meanings and to the type of verb each takes. (SC)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Japanese, Language Patterns
Teaching the Japanese Copula
Mills, David O. – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1977
The traditional approach in teaching the Japanese copula is shown to be linguistically and pedagogically defective. An alternative analysis of -da and -desu and a practical method of presenting them is demonstrated. (HP)
Descriptors: Grammar, Japanese, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
A Note on Noun Modification in Japanese.
Soga, Matsuo; Fujimura, Taiji – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Discusses the construction "Sentence + no + Noun" in contemporary Japanese. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Grammar, Japanese
A Forward-Looking Approach
McAllister, Edmond L. – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1977
The current approach in teaching Japanese as a second language is questioned as inefficient. The forward-looking approach does not condition students to expect that they must learn all the items of a set before being able to learn anything else. (HP)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Grammar, Higher Education, Japanese
A Five Minute Exercise in Writing Japanese
Kamiyama, Tamie – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1974
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 1971, Chicago, Illinois. (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Japanese, Language Ability, Language Instruction