Word-attack skills in beginners’ Japanese reading comprehension
Moore, Harumi,, 19, 73-88 (1996),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.19.1.05moo,
publicationName = John Benjamins,
issn = 0155-0640,
abstract= This paper advocates the promotion of teaching word-attack skills, among other reading skills, in a beginners’ Japanese program. The paper argues that even first-year students with limited knowledge of kanji (Chinese characters) can use such strategies successfully, and that formal training in such skills helps foster autonomous readers who approach reading tasks with a positive attitude. The feasibility of teaching word-attack skills to beginners is supported by the results obtained in an experiment conducted in the introductory Japanese course at the Australian National University (ANU). The paper takes a detailed look at various word-attack skills used by students in this experiment, in the light of universal reading strategies as well as strategies specific to reading in Japanese.,
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