Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

A Consideration About Competence in Kanji and their Teaching

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Abstract

This essay deals with the definition of ‘kanji competence’ from the point of view of the three main approaches to language in Japanese: shiru (to know), wakaru (to understand) and dekiru (to be able). After outlining competence, the essay proceeds to investigate how to carry on a comprehensive teaching process which takes into account: ‘who’ (are the learners), ‘what’ (they need to learn) and ‘how’ (to teach). The considerations presented here are based on the Author’s personal experience as a former learner, now reconsidered in his role as a teacher.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 14 Febbraio 2020 | Accettato: 26 Maggio 2020 | Pubblicato 03 Luglio 2020 | Lingua: en

Keywords Reading ability • Kanji competence • Teaching strategies • Kanji strings • Japanese written language

Copyright © 2020 Aldo Tollini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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