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Chi`e: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Jepang
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ISSN : -     EISSN : 26856662     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15294/chie
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CHI’E: JURNAL PENDIDIKAN BAHASA JEPANG, (E-ISSN: 2685-6662, P-ISSN:2252-6250) is an OPEN-ACCESS, Peer-reviewed, International DOAJ Indexed Journal has the perspectives of Japanese languages, literature and language teachings. This journal has the Focus and Scope of presenting and discussing some outstanding contemporary issues dealing with Japanese Language Teaching, Japanese Literature & Japanese Linguistics.
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Understanding Reading Themes and Question Types in JLPT N5: Insight from Practice Books OPI SUKARDI PUTRI; Hayati, Novia; Juangsih, Juju
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): October 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v13i2.29330

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This qualitative study reports on the investigation of theme or topics and types of questions in the reading section of the JLPT N5. Drawing on 37 texts and 46 questions from three different book sources of JLPT N5 practices, this research reveals three main findings. First, apart from informational texts, which are realized in the forms of short notices such as announcements, timetables, food labels, and memos, most topics in the short and longer texts tend to be personal and descriptive. Second, all topics in the reading section are related to everyday life, involving 11 topics related to personal life and to the surroundings. Personal-related topics include activities (past, present, and future), family, future dreams, houses, friends, pets, and simple experiences, whereas surroundings-related topics are composed of announcements, timetables, instructions, and food labels. The most dominant topic is descriptions of activities (past, present, and future), while the second highest topic is related to the announcement content (including the name of the place, operational hours, contact numbers, lists of products, prices, discount information, and warnings about something). Third, the types of questions in the reading section of JLPT N5 involve three categories: easy, moderate, and difficult. Easy types of questions include locating certain information, such as names, objects, activities, and basic facts within a text and/or simple matching visuals with texts. Moderate questions cover matching texts and visuals, reasoning, and finding details. The difficult types of questions involve conclusion, prediction, and inference, in which the examinees are required to understand what is not explicitly stated to answer.
Evaluating the Effect of Digital Media and Coginitive Styles on Kanji Learning: An Experimental Study Using Tanoshiijapanese.com Nia Setiawati; Muhamad Aldillah; Cut Erra Rismorlita
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): October 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v13i2.31041

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This study examines the effect of digital learning media and cognitive styles on kanji learning outcomes, focusing on the use of the tanoshiijapanese.com website as a learning platform. The research aims to determine how this website supports students with different cognitive styles—Field Dependent (FD) and Field Independent (FI)—in learning kanji. As online and blended learning continue to evolve, the integration of interactive web-based tools has become essential in language instruction, particularly for complex writing systems such as Japanese kanji. This study employed a one-group pretest–posttest experimental design involving students enrolled in a Kanji I course. Participants completed a pretest, underwent learning sessions using tanoshiijapanese.com, and then completed a posttest. Results indicated that both FD and FI learners experienced significant improvement after the intervention, confirming the positive impact of the digital platform on kanji acquisition. Furthermore, FD learners achieved slightly higher gains than FI learners, suggesting that the website’s guided and visually structured format aligns more closely with the cognitive tendencies of FD learners. These findings underscore the potential of web-based tools to enhance kanji instruction while addressing individual learning preferences. 
Patriarchy and the Regulation of Feminity in Edo Japan: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis Nina Alia Ariefa
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): October 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v13i2.31439

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Literary works serve as cultural instruments that reflect and perpetuate dominant social ideologies, including those related to gender and power. This study investigates the construction of women’s discourse during the Edo period (1603–1868), a feudal era under Tokugawa rule, through a Foucauldian analysis of Shinjū Tenno Amijima, one of the most prominent plays of the time. Using Foucault’s theory of discourse and a qualitative discourse-analytical approach, the research examines how female subjectivity is represented, regulated, and disciplined within the text. The findings reveal that portrayals of women’s self-sacrifice, emotional restraint, and loyalty to men function as mechanisms of social control that reproduce patriarchal values. These depictions naturalize women’s subordination and reinforce gendered hierarchies within Edo society. The study further argues that discourse in Shinjū Tenno Amijima operates as a form of power—one that shapes gender norms and legitimizes women’s roles within the sociocultural structure of the period. By situating literary representation within the broader framework of Foucauldian discourse theory, this research contributes to understanding how literature not only mirrors but also sustains systems of power and patriarchy in premodern Japan.
The Representation of Magical Realism Elements in the Novel Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Dian Annisa Nur Ridha; Muhamad Ramadhan
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): October 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v13i2.31539

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  This study explores the elements of magical realism and the social contexts underlying their emergence in Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart. Drawing on Wendy B. Faris’s theory of magical realism, the analysis employs structural and dialectical approaches. The findings reveal that Sputnik Sweetheart embodies all five defining elements of magical realism. This is exemplified in the mysterious disappearance of Sumire on a small island in Greece, an event unexplainable through realistic logic and instead framed as a transition into another dimension—blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. Similarly, the appearance of Miu’s doppelgänger in her Swiss apartment intensifies the novel’s unsettling magical atmosphere. These events evoke ambiguity about Sumire’s sudden disappearance and Miu’s overnight transformation, as the real and the imaginary intertwine. Beyond identifying these narrative elements, the study also uncovers the social context behind Murakami’s use of magical realism—specifically, the collective trauma and social injustices experienced by marginalized female characters, as well as implicit critiques of Japan’s socio-political relations with its neighboring countries.  
Internal and External Factors Influencing Kanji Learning among Japanese language Students in Indonesia Fani, Diah Ayu; Setiawan, Hari; Permatasari, Kun Makhsusy
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): October 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v13i2.32002

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This study investigates the factors influencing kanji learning among students of the Japanese Language and Culture Study Program, Class of 2022, at Darma Persada University. The research employs a qualitative descriptive approach, combining field observations, literature review, and questionnaire-based data collection. The analysis identifies two major dimensions, internal and external factors that affect students’ kanji learning. The average score for internal factors is 3.77, categorized as “high”, while external factors show a slightly higher average of 4.15, also in the “high” category. These results indicate that both dimensions significantly influence kanji learning, with external factors exerting a stronger impact. The most influential external indicators include parental support, peer support, study environment, teaching methods, teacher-student relationships, study time allocation, and the availability of learning materials and media. These findings suggest that successful kanji acquisition is shaped not only by students’ individual motivation and cognitive readiness but also by the surrounding social and instructional context. This study contributes to understanding how learning environments and interpersonal dynamics enhance kanji learning outcomes among Japanese language students in Indonesia.
The Evaluative Language of HIV/AIDS Campaigns Texts: A Case Study in Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare M Ikhwan F Nurjaman; Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna; Inu Isnaeni Sidiq
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v14i1.36137

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This study examines the evaluation language of HIV/AIDS campaign texts published on the official website of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Drawing on Martin and White’s appraisal framework, it analyzes how attitude, engagement, and graduation are deployed to construct public understandings of HIV/AIDS. Using a qualitative case study design, the study examines campaign materials collected from January to March 2025 through purposive sampling and document-based analysis. The findings show that the texts rely on a dual evaluative strategy. On the one hand, affect is dominated by insecurity, dissatisfaction, and unhappiness, foregrounding fear, stigma, uncertainty, and the continuing social burden of HIV/AIDS. On the other hand, positive evaluations are also salient, particularly in references to medical progress, early detection, treatment access, and institutional support. In the judgement system. The text endorses responsible, informed, and preventive behaviour while condemning ngegligence, discrimination, and stigmatizing practices. In appreciation, positive valuation is attached mainly to advances in treatment and public health services, although systemic limitations and persistent prejudice are also critically represented. Overall, the discourse frames HIV/AIDS simultaneously as a medical, social, and moral issue. The study contributes to appraisal-based discourse analysis and offers insights for more inclusive and effective health communication.
Japanese Speaking Anxiety in Kaiwa Classes: A Cross-Cohort Study of Japanese Language Education Students at UMY Aisyah Nur Hajizah; Rosi Rosiah
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v14i1.37219

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This study examines speaking anxiety in Japanese kaiwa classes among students in a Japanese Language Education program at a private University in Yogyakarta. Since speaking is a central component of foreign language learning and is often associated with high levels of anxiety, the study investigates whether anxiety differs across student cohorts and identifies the factors contributing to it. Using a quantitative design, data were collected from 70 students drawn from four cohorts within a population of 113 students. The study employed a questionnaire adapted from the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) developed by Horwitz et al., and the data were analyzed using SPSS. The findings indicate that students across all cohorts experienced a moderate level of speaking anxiety. However, the ANOVA results showed no statistically significant differences among cohorts, suggesting that academic level was not a determining factor in students’ speaking anxiwty. These findings indicate that speaking anxiety in Japanese language learning is shaped less by cohort membership than by individual and classroom-related factors, such as self-confidence, speaking experience, and perceived evaluation in classroom interaction.
N3 Kanji Learning Patterns Among Japanese Language Education Students at UMY Yuli Wahyuni; Marahani Evilia Santi
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v14i1.39738

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This study examines N3-level Kanji learning patterns among students in the Japanese Language Education Program at Muhammadiyah Universitas of Yogyakarta. Using a descriptive qualitative design, the study involved 16 students who had passed the JLPT N3, selected through a mini-survey and purposive sampling. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed to identify dominant learning strategies and the internal factors shaping kanji learning at the intermediate level. The findings show that students adopt multimodal learning patterns that combine writing practice, flashcards, digital applications, and audiovisual exposure. These patterns are shaped by both intrinsic and instrumental motivation, as well as by authentic learning experiences. The study also found that students demonstrated higher self-efficacy in kanji Reading tan in writing, with Reading skills developing more readily through contextual exposure, while structured learning patterns tended to produce more stable outcomes tan flexible ones. By focusing on intermediate learners, a group that has received relatively limited attention in previous studies, this study highlights the interaction between multimodal learning strategies and self-efficacy in kanji learning and offers practical implications for designing more effective kanji instruction in Japanese language education at the tertiary level.
Autonomous Shadowing Practice and Prosodic Development in Intermediate Learners of Japanese: A Mixed-Methods Study Jiaan Xu
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v14i1.39904

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Autonomous oral practice is widely encouraged in Japanese language learning, but its pronunciation benefits are not always explained in ways that link measurable speech change with native-speaker perception. This mixed-methods study examined how repeated shadowing practice supported prosodic development in three intermediate learners of Japanese. Over seven weeks, participants completed two shadowing sessions per week using textbook audio recordings as model input. The analysis combined two approaches: acoustic inspection of fundamental frequency (FO) contours and timing patterns using PRAAT, and perceptual evaluation by two native Japanese speakers focusing on accent, intonation, word rhythm and overall improvement. Across learners, second attempts on the same material generally showed smoother pitch movement, more stable rhythmic organization, and higher perceptual ratings. Indicating improvement in prosodic naturalness even within a short practice cycle. At the same time, development was not uniform. Some learners improved mainly through more coherent intonation, while others showed faster delivery that sometimes coincided with reduced segmental precision, such as shortened long vowels. These findings suggest that autonomous shadowing can effectively support prosodic development, while also highlighting the need for pacing and feedback to maintain accuracy as fluency increases.  
Public Image and Private Life of Ai Hoshino in Oshi no Ko: A Dramaturgical Analysis Faishal Seananda; Parastuti Parastuti; Rusmiyati Rusmiyati; Didik Nurhadi
Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/chie.v14i1.41570

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The idol phenomenon is a prominent aspect of modern popular culture, in which individuals are expected to present an idealized image that conforms to social expectations. In this context, impression management plays a central role in shaping an idol’s public identity. This phenomenon is also represented in popular media, including the anime Oshi no Ko. This study examines the construction of public image and private life in the character Ai Hoshino through her performances in the front stage and backstage. Using a qualitative descriptive approach and non-participant observation, the data were collected from dialogues, monologues, and relevant scenes in the anime. The analysis draws on Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, particularly the concepts of performance, front stage, and backstage. The findings show that the boundary between public image and private life is not simply blurred but actively constructed through complex social mechanisms. Through face-work, sign vehicles, and team performance, Ai Hoshino consistently maintains her public image as an idol. Overall, Oshi no Ko represents dramaturgical practices in Japanese idol culture through the deliberate construction and management of image.

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