森美子先生のレクチャー

３年生の漢字はどうですか？　漢字を覚えるのは大変ですね。

来週月曜日、11/14の午後３時からHesburgh Auditoriumで森美子（よしこ）先生のレクチャーがあります。森先生はジョージタウン大学の教授（きょうじゅ）で、ご専門は漢字習得（しゅうとく）です。レクチャーでは、効果的な漢字の勉強の仕方などを教えていただけるかもしれませんよ。楽しみですね。

Learning Kanji: Learner Perceptions and Strategies

Professor Yoshiko Mori, Georgetown University

Learning kanji is challenging, but the sense of challenge makes learning Japanese a lot of fun and could act as a motivator to continue to study Japanese.  In this talk, I will first make an overview of the nature of kanji and the challenge in kanji learning.  I will then report the findings of my research that investigated Japanese language students' kanji perceptions and the impact of their self-reported learning strategies on their achievement.  Based on my research findings, I will argue that (a) Japanese language students reflect upon their own kanji learning from various perspectives, (b) students' task-specific beliefs have a significant impact on their achievement on given tasks, and (c) metacognitive awareness plays an important role in dealing with a challenging learning task.