専門分野における漢字教授法に関する一試案

要旨

In this paper I propose a teaching method for Kanji compounds words commonly found in scientific and technical fields. A 6 month language course docs not provide the necessary knowledge of Kanji or students from non-Kanji countries to read Japanese documents in their particular fields. However, we have noticed that a total of only 350-1200 characters are combined to form the common technical terms for each scientific and technical field. It seems possible for a student to master the limited array of Kanji particular to their own field, if Kanji classes are used to teach the system of generating compound Kanji words. We examined how students with some knowledge of Kanji analyze Kanji compound words into their component morphemes, in order to determine what information is associated with each Kanji to enable itto be recognized as a meaningful unit. Our survey revealed that certain information about morphological elements in a Kanji compound word, such as prefix or suffix, act as meaning partition markers to allow students to recognize a morphological unit effectively.

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