Department students and some graduates as well as some other subjects in another university. They were asked how many of the loanwords they meet in Japanese newspapers, magazines and on TV do they understand. Also they were asked if the media uses too many loanwords, or the right amount of loanwords, or doesn’t use enough loanwords. These days there are a lot of loanwords but it is not clear what people think about that. I also asked whether we should reduce the number of loanwords and Japlish a little or protect or accept and how Japanese language will change in the future. The subjects were given a space to write and were asked to write because their feelings and thoughts as there are a lot of opinions. 2) Test design The words in the experiment were chosen from three kinds of articles, three business articles and three each on the economy and politics. General words were selected from the articles and were not specialized words and not too difficult. The test was designed to examine different aspects of word knowledge such as whether they have ever seen them, or have ever used them, and they had to write the meaning of Japanese to validate their knowledge. For example, write this when people see the word, they may not understand but they could guess the meaning and display their partial knowledge by writing their own sentences. Moreover, we can know if they have seen the word, or if they can’t use it or if they don’t understand the word. The test also finds out if they mostly understand the word’s meaning. The following questions were also in a questionnaire How much of the loanwords that you meet in Japanese newspapers, magazines and on TV do you understand? 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Which opinion is closest to yours?
Department students and some graduates as well as some other subjects in another university. They were asked how many of the loanwords they meet in Japanese newspapers, magazines and on TV do they understand. Also they were asked if the media uses too many loanwords, or the right amount of loanwords, or doesn’t use enough loanwords. These days there are a lot of loanwords but it is not clear what people think about that. I also asked whether we should reduce the number of loanwords and Japlish a little or protect or accept and how Japanese language will change in the future. The subjects were given a space to write and were asked to write because their feelings and thoughts as there are a lot of opinions. 2) Test design The words in the experiment were chosen from three kinds of articles, three business articles and three each on the economy and politics. General words were selected from the articles and were not specialized words and not too difficult. The test was designed to examine different aspects of word knowledge such as whether they have ever seen them, or have ever used them, and they had to write the meaning of Japanese to validate their knowledge. For example, write this when people see the word, they may not understand but they could guess the meaning and display their partial knowledge by writing their own sentences. Moreover, we can know if they have seen the word, or if they can’t use it or if they don’t understand the word. The test also finds out if they mostly understand the word’s meaning. The following questions were also in a questionnaire How much of the loanwords that you meet in Japanese newspapers, magazines and on TV do you understand? 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Which opinion is closest to yours?
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