Kanji Acquisition by an American Student: An Exploratory Case Study

Eric Posey
2015 The Eagle Feather  
The purpose of this research will be to determine the extent to which the use of a computer application entitled "Kanji Box" could foster a more positive perception of Chinese character (i.e. "kanji") acquisition by Japanese language students of Western origin. In my proposed research, data will be gathered by interviewing the students in a Japanese language course periodically throughout the semester while they are taking course work specific for teaching these characters. To measure the
more » ... s of the application, some students will be given "Kanji Box" iPhone application or alternatively instructed to use the desktop version, compared to students who do not use the application whatsoever. The proposed research methodology includes a case study of one student, me, during the academic year 2011 when I first used the Kanji Box application for Japanese language studies, until the fall of 2014 when I studied Japanese at the Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies.
doi:10.12794/tef.2015.340 fatcat:bvihi66zxjaelh4f7q5ed2fz6q