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

by Heath Rose

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783098149
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	06/05/2017
Series:	Second Language Acquisition , #116
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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       

Editorial Reviews

A timely and important contribution to the study of the acquisition of the Japanese writing system, focussing on self-regulation and motivation. This compelling volume relates key research findings on kanji acquisition in a way that will be very useful to Japanese language learners, teachers and researchers alike.

Lorna Carson

A timely and important contribution to the study of the acquisition of the Japanese writing system, focussing on self-regulation and motivation. This compelling volume relates key research findings on kanji acquisition in a way that will be very useful to Japanese language learners, teachers and researchers alike.

--Lorna Carson, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

For Japanese language learners, studying kanji requires laborious and often tedious efforts, but it can also build their self-confidence and creativity for devising learning strategies. This groundbreaking book draws on Rose's own experience as a learner, fills a research gap, and offers evidence-based insights to Japanese language learners, teachers, and researchers.

--Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia, Canada

From the Publisher

For Japanese language learners, studying kanji requires laborious and often tedious efforts, but it can also build their self-confidence and creativity for devising learning strategies. This groundbreaking book draws on Rose’s own experience as a learner, fills a research gap, and offers evidence-based insights to Japanese language learners, teachers, and researchers.

Ryuko Kubota