Japanese Literacy Acquisition by Alphabetic-Based Background Indonesian Learners

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10.2991/icollite-18.2019.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

alphabetic background learners; literacy acquisition; phonological awareness; second language acquisition; word recognition

Abstract

This research aims to determine that the contribution of phonological and visual processes to literacy acquisition in two different scripts is important when studying kanji especially reading Japanese kanji characters. However, visual games are less well understood. For logographic scripts where symbols represent all words or units that are meaningful, the importance of visual memory in literacy acquisition may highly be expected due to visual complexity in logographic characters, but in reality is still the same. The research methodology complemented by a questionnaire and kanji tests involved 50 Indonesian students who took the Basic Reading Comprehension course on various literacy and cognitive tasks. Data from the research were collected from the questionnaires, kanji tests, and cognitive tasks. The results showed that the skills differences that predict literacy performance in phonological awareness and logographic Kanji provide experimental evidence that visual memory is important when learning Kanji. Therefore, the problem of literacy in Japanese as a foreign language and remediation program must be considered in a reading and writing lesson for elementary level learners.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Linna Meilia Rasiban
AU  - Neneng Sutjiati
AU  - Ahmad Dahidi
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Japanese Literacy Acquisition by Alphabetic-Based Background Indonesian Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 321
EP  - 325
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.71
DO  - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.71
ID  - Rasiban2019/03
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