Japanese language learners at the university level must master the knowledge of Japanese letters, which consists of kana and kanji. There are no difficulties for the students who have already been familiar with Japanese letters to know the characteristics of kana and kanji. On the contrary, students who have no background of studying Japanese will think that writing and reading Japanese letters is a challenging effort. Therefore, a learning model which introduces the strategies of Japanese letters, especially kanji, is necessary for the beginner. This paper aims at proposing a learning model which is integrated with the courses of Shokyu Hyoki. The learning model introduces learning strategies in learning kanji which is appropriate with the students' needs and characteristics. The goal is to make the students know kanji learning strategies based on Strategy Inventory for Learning Kanji (SILK). In the end, the students will be able to decide and use the appropriate kanji learning strategy for them.
Chukyu Dokkai lecture is an intermediate reading lecture which the students program after taking the Shokyu Dokkai, an elementary reading lecture. In the elementary level of reading a lecturer still takes a very great role in the teaching and learning process. The roles includes guiding and teaching the students to read starting from words, sentences, paragraph and even the lecturer still use the translation method. But not for the intermediate level of reading, the methods and techniques of the teaching is more various. One of the models which can be used is reciprocal teaching. This model puts the teacher or lecturer as a model and facilitator than a presenter of the teaching and learning process. The students are taught four strategies of specific self-understanding and control, namely summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. While the teaching and learning process is taking place, the students are actively involved in the discussion in their groups. The lecturer acts as mediator, model, and trainer. The teaching and learning process will not be a one way process where the lecturer controls the process, but the students will also have the chance to give their opinions. Therefore it is hoped that the students will grow the responsibility within them and the lecturer will stay with them to help them monitor, think and choose the strategy that can be used in the process of studying
The study completion in undergraduate program (S1) requires the completion of thesis writing for students. The flow of thesis preparation at the Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS), Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa), has followed the Thesis Writing Guidebook issued by FBS Unesa. In the manual, the requirements and procedures for writing a thesis are clearly written. But even so, there are still many students who have not been able to complete their thesis writing on time, which hinders the completion of their studies. Therefore, it is necessary to identify students' difficulties in completing their studies, especially at the thesis writing stage. From the results of the distribution of research instruments in the form of questionnaires, it was concluded that there were five categories of difficulties faced by students, namely: 1) Difficulties in submitting / selecting research titles, 2) Difficulties in the consultation process, 3) Difficulties in data collection and processing, 4) Difficulties in the examination process, and 5) Difficulty in the revision process.
The aim of this research is to investigate the research theme and focus that have been conducted by lecturers, and the theme development of the future research. It is a descriptive research using purposive sampling methods. The sampling is in the form of the research results or reports done by lecturers for the last five years from 2015 to 2019. This research uses checklist documentation and questionnaire as the research instruments. As for the results, it is shown that there were 28 research had been conducted during the years 2015 to 2019. Based on the research rank, theme, and focus, "Teaching Media" were the most-researched topic with 8 research in total. Meanwhile, for the future theme development will be about teaching phenomenon using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
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