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Martin Dale-Hench – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This article explores turn-taking in Japanese Sign Language ( JSL) by using Baker's (1977) framework. JSL as a language is wholly unrelated to American Sign Language (ASL), but because Baker and other discourse analysts have always been concerned mostly with ASL and European sign languages, it remains to be seen if Asian sign languages such as JSL…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Japanese, Interaction, Attention
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Ishida, Yuki; Chung, Inho – American Annals of the Deaf, 2022
The study's purpose was to clarify the developmental characteristics of working memory in hard of hearing children on the basis of language ability and task variables. Eighty-three congenitally severely hard of hearing children in grades 3-9 attending Japanese elementary and junior high school were aggregated on the basis of grade and language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students, Hearing Impairments
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Tanji, Takayuki; Inoue, Tomohiro – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
We examined the cognitive predictors of early word reading skills in Japanese syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Eighty-three Japanese kindergarten children (M age = 75.6 months, SD = 3.4) were assessed on nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological memory, morphological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Early Reading, Reading Skills
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Muroya, Naoko; Inoue, Tomohiro; Hosokawa, Miyuki; Georgiou, George K.; Maekawa, Hisao; Parrila, Rauno – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
We examined the relationship between morphological awareness and word reading skills in syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Participants were 127 Grade 1 Japanese-speaking children who were followed until Grade 2. The results showed that Grade 1 morphological awareness was uniquely and comparably associated with word reading skills in both…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Japanese, Elementary School Students