Developmental Process of Conjunctive Particle "kara" in Japanese Language Learners : A Comparison of the Learning Environment and Conjunctive Particle "node"
アイテムタイプ
紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper
言語
日本語
キーワード
日本語学習者, 発達過程, 接続助詞「~から」「~ので」, 学習者コーパス「I-JAS」
キーワード(英)
Japanese language learners, developmental process, conjunctive particles "kara" and "node", Learner corpus "I-JAS"
Doctoral Course The United Graduate School of Education Tokyo Gakugei University (Yokohama National University) / Adjunct Researcher, JSL Research Division, Research Department, NINJAL
This research aims to examine the developmental process of the conjunctive particle "から (kara)" by learners of different educational environments (i.e. second vs foreign language classrooms), and contrast it with "ので (node)", another conjunctive particle, using the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). The learners are Korean, Chinese, and English L1 speakers who havestudied Japanese in their own countries.
There are three main results found: 1) the development of "kara" is the same for foreign and second language learners; 2) even though "kara" and "node" are grammatically different, however they follow the same developmental process; and 3) although "kara" and "node" follow the same developmental process, the stage of development and the speed of development are different, and misuse is less likely to occur in the use of "node" than "kara". The reason for point 3) may potentially be due to the earlier introduction of the grammar "kara" than "node" in Japanese language classes, the function is redundant hence using "kara" may have been sufficient, and "node" has more restrictions in its use.