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Online communication in a second language
This book examines the use of social computer mediated communication with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2,000 instances of online communication, in addition to extensive interviews, the book explores opportunities for language acquisition and use in authentic online interaction.
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Making sense of Japanese : what the textbooks don't tell you
\"Making sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of the Infinite. Previously known as Gone fishin', this book has brought Jay Rubin more feedback than any of his literary translations or scholarly tomes, \"even if,\" he says, \"you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter.\" To convey his conviction that \"the Japanese language is not vague,\" Rubin has dared to explain how some of the most challenging Japanese grammatical forms work ...\" --Publisher description.
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Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction to the state-of-art in the respective fields and currently ongoing debates in them.
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The grammatical voice in Japanese : a typological perspective
This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The Japanese voice system, especially the passive voice, has provided much interesting data for typological compa.
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Evaluating Facebook as aids for learning Japanese: learners' perspectives
PurposeThis study analyses the advantages and weaknesses of using Facebook to aid the learning of Japanese as a foreign language.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 100 Hong Kong Japanese language learners (who are generally fluent in Chinese and English), ranging from total amateur to advanced learners (Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) qualified at different levels).FindingsThe authors' results suggest that the advantages of using Facebook to help learn Japanese include: (1) serving as a free-of-charge, casual, and convenient learning platform; (2) enriching learners' knowledge beyond the language learning and (3) encouraging interactive and collaborative learning with other users for practicing the language. However, the low credibility and unstructured educational materials posted on Facebook and being easily distracted by other Facebook feeds are the major weaknesses of learning a language through Facebook. Furthermore, the authors' result shows that Facebook is especially effective for Japanese learning when learners fall into either one of the following groups: young, female, or intermediate (N2/3) learners.Originality/valueScant studies focus on the aid of learning Japanese via Facebook, especially Hong Kong learners' perceptions, or generally in the East. Therefore, this study aims to fill this research gap. The authors' findings will facilitate the students, teachers, and language institutions from Hong Kong and other countries to improve the students' effectiveness in learning and teaching Japanese.
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Japanese English visual bilingual dictionary
Covering over six thousand words and phrases, uses full color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life from the home and office to sports, music, and nature.
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Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology
This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese.
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