A Study of Students Recalling Basic Japanese Structures through their Self-Assessment

Hitomi Yamaguchi, Pornrat Yenjai

Email: hitomi@tni.ac.th, pornrat@tni.ac.th
TNIAC 2020

Abstract

This research has the main objective to study structures that the participants enable to recall when they learn the new lessons in the following semester. For Level of processing is chosen to
conduct this research. There are three levels of level of processing including Structural processing, Phonemic processing and Semantics processing. Semantics processing is considered as the level that the students acquire language. For data collection, the participants were 502 university students who studied in the course JPN-102 (Business Japanese 2) taught in the second semester in the academic year 2019 (2/2019) at Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology. For the research instrument, the rating-scale questionnaire was applied to collect data. The statistics used for the analysis were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The findings indicated that the participants studying in JPN-101(Business Japanese 1) in the previous semester (1/2019) can recall some structures in the Can-do list taught in the class JPN-101 which is considered as the high level (X= 3.84). However, there are some structures which the participants seem not to be able to recall. For the further development, other researchers would be able to apply the findings in this study to develop the new lessons or materials to enhance the level of language proficiency to be able use Japanese effectively in the real world situation.
Keywords —Can-do, Recall, Self-assessment, Levels of processing, Semantics processing

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