The Japanese Writing System Challenges, Strategies and Self-Regulation for Learning Kanji

by Rose, Heath

• ISBN13: 9781783098149
• ISBN10: 1783098147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-06-30
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation and kanji learning strategies. It provides the most comprehensive overview of the Japanese writing system and kanji learning to date; helps further our understanding of second language writing acquisition and offers new directions for research in the wider fields of language learning strategies, motivation and self-regulation. Each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the content of the chapter for the Japanese language learner, instructor and researcher. It will appeal to researchers of the teaching and learning of Japanese as a foreign/second language, the Japanese writing system and second language acquisition, as well as to instructors and learners of Japanese who are struggling with the teaching and learning of kanji.

Author Biography

Heath Rose is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include Global Englishes, second language pedagogy, language learner strategies and the teaching and learning of Japanese as a foreign language. He has published extensively in applied linguistics journals, is the co-author of a number of books on Global Englishes and the co-editor of Doing Research in Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2017).

Table of Contents

About The Author

Preface

SECTION ONE: ISSUES SURROUNDING JAPANESE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Japanese Writing System

Chapter 3: Cognitive Challenges in Learning the Japanese Writing System

SECTION TWO: COGNITIVE STRATEGIES

Chapter 4: Cognitive Learning Strategies

Chapter 5: Visual Association

Chapter 6: Component Analysis

Chapter 7: Mnemonics

SECTION 3: PSYCHOLOGY AND SELF-REGULATION

Chapter 8: Learner Psychology, Self-Regulation and Language Learning

Chapter 9: Metacognition and Language Learning

Chapter 10: Goal Setting and Commitment Control Strategies

Chapter 11: Affective Factors in Kanji Learning

SECTION 4: IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 12: Implications for Learners

Chapter 13: Implications for Instructors

Chapter 14: Implications for the Researchers

Glossary

Bibliography