Reading Strategies to Overcome Difficulties in Understanding Japanese Sentences
- DOI
- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.251How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- difficulties; sentence; strategy; syntax
- Abstract
The increase of difficult new words, complex sentences, various context and new information from reading materials make learning and teaching at the intermediate level difficult. The objective of this study is to identify student’s difficulties in comprehending complex sentences and how teachers overcome these problems. The study was conducted at a university level language course outside Japan, majoring in Japanese, with 34 respondents. Respondents have been learning Japanese for 2 years of the elementary level equal to JLPT N4. They were asked to pick two most difficult sentences from a passage of 4 paragraphs and tell what they understand from the sentence. They work individually and may not search words on the dictionary. New words and expression were introduced in grammar class previously. As a result, it is discovered that grammatical morpheme and clause order was discovered as obstacles to students. This made difficult for them to apply a guessing strategy towards unfamiliar words. Through this study, teachers are recommended to again review teaching sentence comprehension, point out hints as a reading strategy to overcome difficulties in understanding Japanese sentences.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lea Santiar AU - Emzir Emzir AU - Yumna Rasyid PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Reading Strategies to Overcome Difficulties in Understanding Japanese Sentences BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 180 EP - 185 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.251 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.251 ID - Santiar2019/06 ER -