The purpose of this research is to acknowledge the effectivity of using association picture media toward the students' "katakana" letter reading comprehension. The hypothesis proposed was the ability of students' "katana" letter reading skill that applies association pictures is more effective to compare if no such media is…

Despite the social turn in views of language and the increasing attention to an application of genre theory in teaching languages, the field of Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language (JFL) has not yet found genre a valuable resource for approaching learners' writing ability. Writing is still practiced as a psycholinguistic space to check learners'…

This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language…