Penguasaan Katakana Mahasiswa Tahun Masuk 2022 Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Jepang Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

This study is motivated by students' difficulties in learning katakana, including challenges in distinguishing, remembering the forms, as well as reading and writing katakana. The aim of this research is to describe the mastery of katakana among students admitted in 2022 to the Japanese Language Education Program at Universitas Negeri Padang. This research employs a descriptive quantitative method with a population of 51 students from the 2022 cohort. A sample of 30 students was selected using random sampling. The research instrument was a test comprising 25 objective and short-answer questions. The results indicate that the average katakana proficiency of the students is 68.73%, categorized as "Fair." This finding reveals that students particularly struggle with writing katakana seion, dakuon, handakuon, and youon, with an average score of 57%. These results highlight the need for increased emphasis on katakana instruction in the learning process to effectively improve students' ability to write and recognize katakana characters.