Extensive reading in Japanese

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2004-04

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University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
Center for Language & Technology

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16

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1

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20

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39

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This article discusses how we incorporated an extensive reading (ER) program into a second semester Japanese course at the University of Hawai`i using Japanese children's literature. After summarizing the ten principles of ER, we describe how we addressed six critical issues faced while introducing ER into the course. We also discuss the outcomes of this ten-week program, which showed that the students improved their scores according to a traditional measure of reading comprehension. We also found positive results in an affective questionnaire that measured attitudes toward and motivation for learning Japanese.

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teaching Japanese, extensive reading, teaching reading, curriculum

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66593

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Volume 16, No. 1
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