Author: Naoko Chino
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: exercises, comparisons, particles, japanese, difference
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 477002200X
ISBN-13: 9784770022004

Particles are one of the most difficult aspects of the Japanese language. This is precisely why there are a good number of books on the market dealing with the subject. Most of these books take up particles as independent entities, so that after having studied them, students are, if all goes well, familiar with the functions of the individual particles. One unfortunate side to this approach is that some of the particles share the same functions (but with slight differences), and so even though students may have grasped the general nature of each particle, they are not sure about the difference

Author: Naoko Chino
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: japanese, kodansha, children, series, classics, words, handbook, function, particles, power
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-09-21
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 4770027818
ISBN-13: 9784770027818

All students of Japanese, whether they have studied physics or not, know the word "particle," and they realize that particles, like English prepositions, require a special effort to master. Thus the high evaluation of the previous edition of this small handbook, which provides all the information students need in a scant 128 pages, was not surprising. All About Particles covers 69 particles, the most common ones along with the less frequent. The particles are shown to have some 200 usages -- sufficient to keep most students hard at work for a good many years. The book can be approached as

Author: Naoko Chino
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: dictionary, kodansha, patterns, japanese, basic, sentence
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 4770026080
ISBN-13: 9784770026088

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns is a fundamental learning tool for all students of the Japanese language, whether they be unblemished beginners or scarred veterans. With both types of struggling student, as well as for all the gradations that fall in between, there is a strong tendency, in the heat of battle, to lose sight of the essential nature of the Japanese sentence. It is for just such people that this dictionary has been created, to help them keep their eyes fixed firmly on the target and not be led astray. The dictionary contains fifty of the most fundamental Japan

Authors:Naoko Taguchi, Naoko Taguchi,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: pragmatics, series, mouton, competence, pragmatic
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 3110218542
ISBN-13: 9783110218541

In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make inference of its development among L2 learners? In what ways do research findings inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language.

Authors:Andreas Foerster, Naoko Tamura,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: japanese, characters, approach, systematic, abc, kanji
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-06-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804819572
ISBN-13: 9780804819572