The Accuracy Order of Japanese Particles in Elementary Level Compositions : An Analysis of Particles,Particle Functions and Functional Groups

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  • 初級学習者の作文に見られる日本語の助詞の正用順序 : 助詞別,助詞の機能別,機能グループ別に
  • 初級学習者の作文にみられる日本語の助詞の正用順序:助詞別,助詞の機能別,機能グループ別に
  • ショキュウ ガクシュウシャ ノ サクブン ニ ミラレル ニホンゴ ノ ジョシ

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This research is based on compositions written by two groups of foreign graduate students who were studying elementary Japanese in Japan. All the particles used by the subjects were collected and the accuracy rates and accuracy orders of the particles, particle functions, and functional groups were calculated and examined. Results from the two groups were compared. A statistically significant correlation was found between the two groups on all three levels. Furthermore, both of the groups had similar accuracy hierarchies on all three levels. The accuracy order of the functions of two particles. WA and GA, corresponds to the findings of Sakamoto (1986, 1993). In addition, the accuracy hierarchy among particles such as TO, NO, O, WA, NI, GA, and DE was similar to the findings of Komori and Banno (1988). Previous research on the accuracy order of three of the particles, WA, GA, and O has shown conflicting results (e.g., Doi and Yoshioka, 1990; Ishida, 1991; Yagi, 1992). Similar differences also emerged between the two groups in this research. One possible explanation for this difference is that the accuracy order WA-->O-->GA, which emerges at the beginning of the elementary level, shifts to O-->WA-->GA sometime after the middle of the elementary level.

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