Wacom Media as an Alternative in Kanji Beginner Learning for College Students in the Pandemic Period
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.019How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Learning; Kanji beginner; College students; Pandemic
- Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education system into distance learning that requires media to deliver materials. Media are needed to help the implementation of a kanji learning is no exception. Kanji skills courses must be mastered by students. Wacom can be used to practice how to write kanji. This study aims to determine the extent of understanding kanji for novice students in recognizing kanji, knowing how to write kanji, understanding how to read both On and Kun readings, and comprehending bushu to understand the meaning of the whole kanji. Descriptive qualitative analysis was used in this study and the form of oral and written tests were used as the research instrument. Respondents, who were involved in online learning, were Unesa Japanese Language Education Study Program students. The results indicated that the process of learning kanji for beginners with the Wacom media were not disappointed. They are proven that students are fluent in reading kanji, explaining On and Kun, knowing bushu to understand the meaning of whole kanji letters. Furthermore, the results of both written and oral tests showed positive responses from the respondents that Wacom media helped them in mastering kanji and provided many benefits for students.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nise S. Sasanti PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Wacom Media as an Alternative in Kanji Beginner Learning for College Students in the Pandemic Period BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 107 EP - 111 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211223.019 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.019 ID - Sasanti2021 ER -