Rutas de acceso semántico de la escritura «kanji»en lectores no nativos: ¿VÍa fonológica o VÍa ortográfica? Creencias y estrategias

Abstract

This article presents the partial results of a study that aims to understand the role orthography as a semantic activator in Japanese texts as part of the reading comprehension process in Chilean Japanese language learners. This first part of the study aims at stablishing a link between the students' beliefs as to how the logographic system works and the strategies they frequently use to access their meaning. The results suggest that beginners tend to associate meaning by using phonologic and visually means simultaneously in spite of their conviction that, as they read, they process kanji characters as a logographic image and decode semantic information directly.