日本人学習者における韓国漢字語学習 －漢字情報が漢字語推測能力に及ぼす影響に関する調査－

Abstract

This research aims to explore more efficient way of teaching Korean for Japanese learners. In particular, our focus is on the effect of Sino‐Japanese vocabulary in the acquisition of Korean language by Japanese native learners. Vocabulary learning frequently considered one of the most important factors in efficient language learning. In many cases, the so‐called Sino‐Korean vocabulary stock shared their meanings and pronunciation with the Sino‐Japanese ones. Since Chinese characters are ideograms, they have outstanding ability in forming new words, i.e. word‐formation. However, the abandoned in the process of the Koreanization, and only the pronunciation is retained. To improve this situation, development of teaching materials and methods of Sino‐Korean for Japanese is important. Although, of previous research mostly claims that the most effective method is to simply write Sino‐Korean in Japanese characters, there is little research that addresses these assumptions critically and examines their importance. The aim of my research is to investigate understanding of Sino‐Korean words among Japanese‐speaking learners of Korean through surveys. As a result of the survey, Japanese native learners of Korean often misunderstandthe meaning of Sino‐Korean words, even if the Japanese and Koreanreading of the Chinese character is very similar.