Research Article
Understanding the Abbreviation of Gairaigo by Japanese Language Students
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319672, author={Lailatul Husna}, title={Understanding the Abbreviation of Gairaigo by Japanese Language Students}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, Education and Culture, ICOLLEC 2021, 9-10 October 2021, Malang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICOLLEC}, year={2022}, month={7}, keywords={abbreviation gairaigo japanese language understanding}, doi={10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319672} }- Lailatul Husna
Year: 2022
Understanding the Abbreviation of Gairaigo by Japanese Language Students
ICOLLEC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319672
Abstract
There are several forms of Japanese gairaigo but unfortunately not all students understand them. This study aims to find out how the answers written by students of the Japanese Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Brawjiaya University regarding the Japanese abbreviation gairaigo and how deep their understanding is. Gairaigo is a type of vocabulary in Japanese language that is taken from outside Japan. This is intended to improve the quality of beginner Japanese teachers in Indonesia. In addition, the increasingly high current of globalization causes many new vocabularies to appear, so it is important to understand gairaigo as a whole. This study shows that there are about 81.4% of students can change the abbreviation gairaigo into its compound word, while there are about 62.6% of students are able to change the vocabulary of a compound word gairaigo into a one-word abbreviation. Then from these findings it is known that there are several points that influence student answers, namely familiarity, lack of ability to understand gairaigo writing, short vocabulary, and lack of understanding of gairaigo abbreviations.