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Upon the composition pattern-based approach to the essay writing in Japanese

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2020, (65), pp.143-160
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.143
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 11, 2020
  • Accepted : August 21, 2020
  • Published : September 20, 2020

Hae-mi, Lee 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to offer formalized writing patterns and major language expressions of each sentence in the writing pattern so that anyone can write an essay if s/he knows the meaning and utilization of common Japanese grammar. For this, it analyzes the validity of writing patterns as to whether or not they can be used in Japanese writing education. A special lecture was given to 41 intermediate-level Japanese learners on how to write a Japanese essay within 75 minutes. Every student who took the special lecture wrote a 1,500-character essay. Methods of analysis are as follows. Writing cases of Japanese writing patterns and major language expressions were analyzed by dividing them into five elements: title, lead, fact, comment, and ending. Further, I analyzed a learner's essay that best utilized the Japanese writing pattern and expressions. It was found that the formalized writing pattern was useful in that it provided Japanese learners who were unaccustomed to writing essay with a guide of how to develop ideas for an essay. In addition, I would like to suggest that Japanese education should also provide a series of sentence structure forms, such as the writing technique that is actively used in English education. This type of teaching method can also be used as one of the effective writing teaching methods.

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