Strategies for Learning Speech Acts in Japanese
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These modular units are specifically designed for intermediate to advanced-level learners of Japanese by Noriko Ishihara (石原紀子), Professor of Applied Linguistics and EFL at Hosei University, Japan (email: ishi0029@gmail.com, website: https://ishi0029.wixsite.com/norikoishihara), and by Andrew D. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, residing in Oakland, CA (email: adcohen@umn.edu; website: z.umn.edu/adcohen).
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Please read the
following information prior to the use of the curricular materials.
Information
for Student Users
Information
for Teachers
Information
for Researchers
More information for
language teachers, researchers, and material developers can be found at the CARLA
Speech Act Website. Also, please note that there is a link at the end of
each speech act page to an annotated bibliography on the realization of that
speech act in Japanese.
The
information about the research study determining the effects of these
curricular materials can be found at Learner
Strategy Training in the Development of Pragmatic Ability at CARLA.
PLEASE NOTE:
Some of the exercises
include MP3 audio files. If you are
not able to hear the audio in the exercises, check to see that you have either QuickTime (Mac) or Windows Media Player (WIN) installed.
If Japanese characters are not readable,
click 'View' on
the tool bar, select 'Encoding', and select 'Japanese'.
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Exercises for Learners of Japanese
Let’s
start by doing the exercises in Introduction to Speech Acts!
In these
introductory exercises, you will be asked to write down your observations in
each situation. Your responses will be e-mailed to us as soon as you
finish with all each question and click on 'Submit' at the end.
Then, you will be able to see some comments regarding the question.
Situation
1 Situation 2
Situation 3 Situation 4
Situation
5 Situation 6 Situation 7 Situation 8
After finishing the
Introductory exercises, move on to exercises for each speech act.
Apologies in Japanese
Compliments/Responses to Compliments in Japanese
Refusals in Japanese
Requests in Japanese
Thanks in Japanese
In concluding all speech
act strategy exercises, you are invited to view an
additional set of strategies for learning how to
perform or enhance your performance of speech acts in a second language.
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