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Homs, Jacqueline Louise Margaretha (2017)

Teaching method for teaching Japanese pitch-accent to Dutch students between the age of 12 and 18 years

Bachelor thesis | Japanstudies (BA)

This thesis contains the research for a teaching method of teaching Japanese pitch-accent to Dutch students which language is stress based, between the age of 12-18 years. It compares 3 existing methods for a different motherlanguage but with the same target language of Japanese, to criteria that have been constructed by using literature research and the pedagogical framework of Pawlak (2011). The existing teaching method of Hirano Cook (2011) was best suited for teaching the pitch-accent to the target age group and was used in order to make a theoretical good teaching method for the Dutch students. The main adjustments to the teaching method of Hirano Cook, consists of using phonological features of the stress-accent and creating a positive transfer to the Japanese pitch-accent.

Pitch-accent

stress accent

Teaching method

Phonology

pedagogical framework

comparing Dutch and Japanese

Author

Homs, Jacqueline Louise Margaretha

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Japanstudies

Supervisors

Yoshioka, Keiko

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en