Strategies for teaching listening in Japanese

Медведєва, Ксенія Андріївна (2025) Strategies for teaching listening in Japanese Актуальні питанняу сучасній науці, 38 (8). pp. 1346-1357. ISSN 2786-6300

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Abstract

Every day, we are swept away by a whirlwind of information. We listen to news, music, communicate, watch movies, anime, or listen to our favorite audiobooks, and learn. We don't even consider how crucial the skill of auditory information perception is. We don't just hear; we also perceive, process, and produce information. This incredibly complex and mysterious process is listening comprehension (auditing). Therefore, it's no coincidence that listening comprehension is considered one of the foundational speech communication skills, alongside reading, speaking, and writing, especially when learning a foreign language like Japanese.Despite the fact that auditory information perception is an integral and invaluable skill, there is a noticeable lack of research into this area of activity. Therefore, we decided to familiarize ourselves with existing research findings, trace the influence of listening comprehension on other communicative skills, and establish the relationship between them. We also delved into the details of the listening comprehension process itself and analyzed our own observations. Specifically, by evaluating theteaching of listening comprehension in Japanese language classes, we aim to discover the level of its significance and role in the process of teaching and learning Japanese. We also seek to determine the most effective ways for students to develop auditory perception, highlighting what should be emphasized despite the limited time allocated for acquiring and practicing listening comprehension skills.We concluded that the success and effectiveness of the listening comprehension learning process are influenced by a complex of factors: differences in individual abilities and students' ways of thinking, intercultural understanding, fundamental knowledge, ability to predict situations, ability to transfer linguistic features from their native language toJapanese and vice versa, learning materials, communication between the teacher and students, adaptability, quick-wittedness, modernity, encouragement, student motivation, and the empathy or maximum engagement of the teacher. All these factors influence the process of understanding Japanese-language messages. Our observations show that with systematic persistent work, a lively, engaging, interesting, and interactive atmosphere in listening comprehension classes, students' interest in improving their auditory perception level –which is often considered difficult and disliked due to its complexity –grows.In our opinion, the teacher's task in teaching Japanese listening comprehension is to encourage students towards quality assimilation of lexical and grammatical material, persistence, patience, diligence, development of critical thinking, broadening their background knowledge, concentration, socialization, and live communication, as modern life increasingly draws them into the virtual world.We believe that learning to freely and effortlessly perceive, process, and represent received aurally information means gracefully embracing all challenges, seizing opportunities, and becoming a skilled interlocutor and proficient listener in a natural Japanese language environment.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	listening comprehension; proficient listener; effective teaching methods; skilled interlocutor; significance and role of listening comprehension; linguistic communication; auditory perception skills
Subjects:	Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет східних мов > Кафедра японської мови і перекладу
Depositing User:	Викладач Ксенія Андріївна Медведєва
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2025 10:03
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2025 10:03
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/52996

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