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広島大学日本語教育研究 Bulletin of the Department of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, Hiroshima University, 2006
There are advanced learners who have acquired grammatical accuracy and native speaker level profi... more There are advanced learners who have acquired grammatical accuracy and native speaker level proficiency, but still have problems with pronunciation. This study reports the changes in pronunciation and noticing in their learning that the shadowing training brought to advanced level learners. Three advanced level learners, who each had an instructor who was a native speaker of Japanese, participated in a year long shadowing training. The learners were required to do 10 to 15 minutes of shadowing practice everyday and report on their noticing and difficulties by keeping journals. Each instructor met each student once a week to check their progress. Several pre and post tests were conducted, and the number of mispronunciations (phone, rhythm, accent, and missing sound) at the time of shadowing performance were measured, together with a qualitative analysis of learners' journals. As a result, the tendencies of (1) decreasing mispronunciation, (2) increasing subtleness of description ...
This study investigated several factors about the acquisition of Japanese lexical accent by Engli... more This study investigated several factors about the acquisition of Japanese lexical accent by English-speaking Japanese learners. Twenty-one adult learners of Japanese as a foreign language took a lesson online to learn the accent patterns of 40 target words. After the 1-hour lesson, they were asked to perform several tasks: take a written review test: read out actual Japanese words with immediate monitoring; read out nonsense words with immediate monitoring: and distinguish accent patterns. Correlation analysis revealed that the accuracy of lexical accent in reading out the target words showed a significant strong correlation only with the immediate monitoring score. The score with the review test failed to show a significant correlation with accent accuracy; however. it did show a significant correlation with the immediate monitoring score. These results were evaluated in terms of acquisition of lexical accent. It was evident that the instructed accent information was used for monit...
Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. II, Arts and science education, 2012
The purpose of this study is to review the previous studies on Korean Japanese learners' Japanese... more The purpose of this study is to review the previous studies on Korean Japanese learners' Japanese accent production and to show the direction for the future research. First, the main researches on Japanese accent were summarized. Next, after surveying the previous studies about the Korean learners' perception and production of Japanese accent, the procedural problems were pointed out. Most of those studies treat perception and production separately, so those relations are unclear. And the close connection between self-monitoring and the accent knowledge was discussed. It argued about the problem of the previous research which disregarded effect of the accent knowledge and insisted that it should be added to the factors for multiple regression analysis. After these discussions, some important factors for learners' accent production were picked, and also concrete procedures treating those factors were presented．
広島大学日本語教育研究 Bulletin of the Department of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, Hiroshima University, 2006
There are advanced learners who have acquired grammatical accuracy and native speaker level profi... more There are advanced learners who have acquired grammatical accuracy and native speaker level proficiency, but still have problems with pronunciation. This study reports the changes in pronunciation and noticing in their learning that the shadowing training brought to advanced level learners. Three advanced level learners, who each had an instructor who was a native speaker of Japanese, participated in a year long shadowing training. The learners were required to do 10 to 15 minutes of shadowing practice everyday and report on their noticing and difficulties by keeping journals. Each instructor met each student once a week to check their progress. Several pre and post tests were conducted, and the number of mispronunciations (phone, rhythm, accent, and missing sound) at the time of shadowing performance were measured, together with a qualitative analysis of learners' journals. As a result, the tendencies of (1) decreasing mispronunciation, (2) increasing subtleness of description ...
This study investigated several factors about the acquisition of Japanese lexical accent by Engli... more This study investigated several factors about the acquisition of Japanese lexical accent by English-speaking Japanese learners. Twenty-one adult learners of Japanese as a foreign language took a lesson online to learn the accent patterns of 40 target words. After the 1-hour lesson, they were asked to perform several tasks: take a written review test: read out actual Japanese words with immediate monitoring; read out nonsense words with immediate monitoring: and distinguish accent patterns. Correlation analysis revealed that the accuracy of lexical accent in reading out the target words showed a significant strong correlation only with the immediate monitoring score. The score with the review test failed to show a significant correlation with accent accuracy; however. it did show a significant correlation with the immediate monitoring score. These results were evaluated in terms of acquisition of lexical accent. It was evident that the instructed accent information was used for monit...
Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. II, Arts and science education, 2012
The purpose of this study is to review the previous studies on Korean Japanese learners' Japanese... more The purpose of this study is to review the previous studies on Korean Japanese learners' Japanese accent production and to show the direction for the future research. First, the main researches on Japanese accent were summarized. Next, after surveying the previous studies about the Korean learners' perception and production of Japanese accent, the procedural problems were pointed out. Most of those studies treat perception and production separately, so those relations are unclear. And the close connection between self-monitoring and the accent knowledge was discussed. It argued about the problem of the previous research which disregarded effect of the accent knowledge and insisted that it should be added to the factors for multiple regression analysis. After these discussions, some important factors for learners' accent production were picked, and also concrete procedures treating those factors were presented．