Becoming Nisei Hoffman, Lisa M; Hanneman, Mary L
12/2020
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Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a
significant number of first- and second-generation Japanese
immigrants to the United States, and these families formed
tight-knit bonds ...despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and
economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the
secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era
cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the
same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways,
including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged
from traditional expectations.
Becoming Nisei , based on more than forty interviews,
shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the
incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives
counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar
histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World
War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency
of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of
prevailing social and power relations.
This research explores the theoretical aspects of implementing the pragmatic approach in learning speaking skills/kaiwa, as outlined in Minna No Nihongo 1's book. The pragmatic approach is a learning ...approach to improve students' speaking/kaiwa skills in the classroom, prioritizing contextualized learning of speaking skills. This emphasis on context becomes particularly significant throughout the learning process. By employing this approach, students, including those in secondary schools and universities, can closely simulate practical speaking conditions, both verbally and in written form. The method used is qualitative descriptive with purposive sampling. Therefore, applying the pragmatic approach has proven effective in promoting active learning, significantly improving students' speaking skills inside and outside the classroom. The Japanese language learning process should be designed to meet practical language needs that correspond to real-world situations. By incorporating patterns based on pragmatic studies, learners undergoing Japanese learning experiences will naturally connect with the practical aspects of communication in the language learning process.
The objective of the study is to evaluate the learning implementation of the Nihongo Noryoku Shiken N5 course as a new course offered in the 2020 curriculum at the Japanese Language Education Study ...Program in UNNES. A goal-oriented evaluation model by Tyler was employed in the evaluation process to measure how far the learning goals that have been determined at the beginning of the lecture are achieved. This evaluative research relied on a quantitative descriptive approach; its steps comprised (1) data collection, (2) data processing and analysis, and (3) recommendation formulation. According to the evaluation results, the learning goals of Nihongo Noryoku Shiken N5 had been met, although it was not that significant. Several conditions cause such issues. (1) In the class, some students had good Japanese language skills; they claimed that the lesson was too easy, so their progress was not significant. (2) The evaluation instruments were not valid. (3) Other conditions, e.g., the implementation of online learning and tests, hindered classroom activities and monitoring. Improving the teaching and learning materials and evaluation instruments is recommended. Furthermore, some additions to the curriculum need to be considered, such as adding the credits for the grammar or Bunpo course.
Nihongo Kirakira I is a textbook published by The Japan Foundation and compiled by following the Content Competencies and Basic Competencies of the 2013 curriculum for secondary education. This book ...has fulfilled the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Culture to answer the needs of basic level Japanese language learners, equivalent to the level 5 JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). Preliminary studies show that there are positive responses regarding to this book from students in Kesatrian 1 High School Semarang. This study aims to investigate the further responses about Japanese language learning by using Nihongo Kirakira I. This research was conducted by using quantitative descriptive methods, involving 72 respondents in Kesatrian High School 1. The data were obtained through open and closed questionnaires, then analyzed by using percentage descriptive techniques. The result shows that 42 respondents (58%) gave "good" response and 30 respondents (42%) gave "not good" response. Poor responses are caused by respondents’ difficulty in pronouncing Japanese vocabulary and in reading hiragana and katakana letters. In general, respondents thought that learning Japanese using Nihongo Kirakira I is adequate.
'Easy Japanese' (yasashii nihongo, YN) was initially developed to disseminate information to foreign residents during emergencies after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Japan in 1995. Since then, ...YN has been promoted as a tool for communicating with foreign residents, as well as with foreign visitors to Japan in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. While it has gained partial recognition among the public, local governments have tried to use YN to deal with the increasing number of temporary workers from Southeast Asia. This study examines how YN is used by municipalities in the regions where foreign residents are concentrated, and whether that usage has changed in recent years. Based on interviews with employees of municipal offices and libraries, and information on their websites, as well as relevant government documents, it reveals a lack of systematic coordination within municipalities and an absence of any initiative by the central government to implement YN. It argues that the ambiguous positioning of YN within Japan's language policy reinforces the division between Japanese people and people who do not speak Japanese, and highlights the government's limited commitment to improving the lives of foreign workers in Japan.
This article will present the methodology, as well as the results, of a pilot study of the ‘Nihongo Speech Trainer’ aimed at helping Thai learners improve their ability to identify Japanese ...contrasts. The pilot study was performed on 15 participants. The tool focuses on specific contrasts that are problematic for Thai learners such as Japanese fricatives and affricates. Perceptual training uses a high-variability phonetic training method (hereafter referred to as “HVPT perceptual training”). Each training session included 90 minimal pairs in which the target contrasts were embedded in initial, medial and final positions. The training stimuli were produced by seven Japanese native speakers. The results of the pilot study showed that the use of the Nihongo Speech Trainer can lead to better perception of the trained Japanese sounds. The results of a questionnaire among the participants also showed that the system helped to improve their perception and production ability. However, despite these positive results with the use of the Nihongo Speech Trainer, there is room for improvement, which may lead to better training results.
Japanese language is a language that has different sentence structure with bahasa Indonesia. In addition, particles or 助词 are also characteristis in Japanese. There are so many of them, causing the ...basic level Japanese language learners confused. Therefore, as a new study program, studies based on goyou or dai ni gengou shuutoku are conducted as a mean to look at the problems occured in Japanese language learning at UNHAS. This study used qualitative researchmethod. Population was taken from Japanese Literature, Faculty of Literature, Universitas Hasanuddin. Twenty two from second year students were the sample and randomly selected. Based on the results, the research concludes that the explanation of the use of particleで and に in Minna No Nihongo I was not all covered, especially on particle に . The explanation of the use of particle に, especially verb 住ん で い ます, 入り ます, 乗り ます, is very prone to errors. This is due to the verb is unfamiliar or infrequently used by respondents in the sentence. Therefore, teachers can fill insufficient explanation in the book, so that the error can be minimized. Whereas, errors/goyou occurred on particle で are more on the functions of the particle for the scope, places of activities, and abstract tools.
This study examines which media incorporated in a developed Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) will be useful for the students taking up Nihongo classes. The CAI program was developed using a tutorial ...mode of presentation covering basic greetings, sentence patterns, number systems and hiragana characters. Each of these topics will have the following media in the flash lectures: text only, text-graphics, text-graphics-sounds and text-graphics-animation-sounds. Students in class were divided into four groups: the first group used text only media; the second group used text-graphics; the third group used text, graphics and sound; and the last group used text, graphics, sounds and animation. Examination was administered at the end of every lesson. ANOVA was used to determine the significant difference in the performance of students using different types of media. From the four media types of Flash lessons embedded in the system, the most effective media were text with graphics, sounds, and animation. Animations wit
Predvsem strukturalistična veja jezikoslovja je poskušala zavreči vse jeziku na videz zunanje aspekte in se mu posvetiti v njegovi »čisti« ali abstraktni pojavnosti. Na drugi strani so se ...vzpostavile tudi jezikoslovne smeri, ki so jezik poskušale razumeti z vidika družbenega konteksta. Vendar pa jezik tako v strukturalnem jezikoslovju kakor v družbeno naravnanih jezikoslovnih teorijah lahko ostane ideološki pojem, če te teorije ne razvijejo tudi ustrezne kritike družbe oziroma družbenih odnosov, iz katerih izhajajo vsakokratne predstave o jeziku oziroma jezikovni praksi. V pričujoči razpravi pokažemo ta ideološki spregled na primeru jezikoslovnih razmišljanj Tokiede Motokija (時枝誠記1900–1967), ki je s svojo jezikoslovno teorijo utemeljeval kolonialno jezikovno politiko Japonskega imperija na Tajvanu in v Koreji.
Pragmatics of Japanese Hudson, Mutsuko Endo; Matsumoto, Yoshiko; Mori, Junko
2018, 2018-04-16, Letnik:
285
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Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory ...chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters address a variety of traditional and emerging topics by adopting diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks and presenting a range of perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture. They demonstrate a wide scope of pragmatics research informed by, as well as informing, usage-based grammar, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary and cultural studies.
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