日本語漢字の学習ストラテジーと学習者意識 - 韓国の教養日本語科目を受講する学習者を対象にして -

Abstract

In the current study, the trends of Japanese kanji learning in Korean Japanese language learners were examined. As a result, the following trends have been revealed. Firstly, with a trend that the higher the learning level of Japanese kanji is, the higher that of Korean kanji is, the learners with a higher learning level of Korean kanji marked high scores in terms of the vocabulary of Japanese kanji and the meaning of sentences. Secondly, when learners read Japanese kanjis in the Japanese kanji learning strategy, they tended to read and understand them based on Korean kanji. In contrast, it has been proved that verbs (masu form) of Japanese kanji were read based on the knowledge obtained from Japanese kanji learning without any analogy based on Korean language. In addition, it has been also suggested in “a strategy for how to understand a meaning of a kanji and to read the kanji” for “texts of Japanese kanji” that the general meaning of any foreign kanji in a text was estimated not by approaching the kanji directly but by understanding the meaning of the context based on Korean language first. It indicates that such a meaning understanding strategy to grasp meaning based on the association of vocabulary from every single kanji has not been established. It is believed to be necessary for teaching language practitioners to recognize such trends and demands of Korean Japanese language learners as well as to develop learning methods capable of taking various meaning understanding strategies.