How do English L1 learners of advanced Japanese infer unknown Kanji words in authentic texts?  

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Kondo-Brown, Kimi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 56 no. 1 (Mar. 2006), page 109-153.
Fulltext: 56_01_Kondo-Brown.pdf (739.57KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/56 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study investigates advanced Japanese language learners' abilities to infer unknown kanji (Chinese character) words while reading authentic Japanese texts. Data obtained from 42 English Ll students indicate that, first, although they can guess the meanings of unknown kanji words in context, they frequently make erroneous guesses or fail to guess at all. Second, the more proficient students can use context better than the less proficient students. Third, when reading comprehension ability is controlled, there is no difference in kanji inferencing ability between heritage language (HL) learners and non-HL learners. Fourth, when the students can pronounce the given semantically unknown kanji words fully or partially while reading, such 'phonological knowledge proved to be related to successful inferencing.

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