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Vlieghe, Joris – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
In this article, I deal with the transition from traditional "school" forms of instruction to educational processes that are fully mediated by digital technologies. Against the background of the idea the very institution "school" is closely linked to the invention of the alphabetic writing system and to the need of initiating…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Iwashita, Noriko; Sekiguchi, Sachiyo – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The paper presents preliminary findings of a project which investigated whether learner background, in terms of instruction mode (i.e., school or intensive first-year course at university) and first language (i.e., character based or non-character based), has an impact on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language (JSL).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Romanization, Personality, Foreign Countries
Hwang, Menq-Ju – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Chinese characters are used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems. When literate speakers of either language experience problems in finding or understanding words, they often resort to using Chinese characters or "kanji" (i.e., Chinese characters used in Japanese writing) in their talk, a practice known as "brush talk" ("bitan" in Chinese,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Speech Communication, Romanization, Second Language Learning
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Ono, Kiyoharu – Babel, 1973
Describes difficulties of learning Japanese as a second language and urges Australian educators to teach only the spoken language at the high school level. (RL)
Descriptors: Japanese, Pronunciation, Romanization, Secondary Schools
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Rose, Heath – Babel, 2003
Kanji are a component of the Japanese writing system that originated from Chinese characters. There are about ten thousand kanji in use in Japanese literature, but knowledge of only the 2000 most frequently occurring of these is needed to be functionally literate in Japanese. The present study, therefore, aimed to address two questions: (1) What…
Descriptors: Written Language, Romanization, Learning Strategies, Chinese
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Kubota, Mariko – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article analyzes the self-correction of spelling by learners of intermediate Japanese. Participants in this study consisted of 20 students with "kanji" (Chinese characters) background and 43 without. This study investigates (1) types of spelling errors made; (2) the success rate of corrections made when codes for types of errors…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Spelling, Pronunciation, Protocol Analysis
Martin, Samuel E. – 1968
Until the coming of World War II, little interest was shown in the teaching of Japanese outside Japan except for the elementary schools set up to inculcate the ways of the homeland among the offspring of Japanese emigrants to places like Hawaii, the Pacific Coast of North America, and Brazil. A few European and American universities offered…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Educational Media, Japanese