Japanese reading levels. University of Hawaii language professors C. Hitosugi and R....

Japanese reading levels. University of Hawaii language professors C. Hitosugi and R. Day incorporated a 10-week extensive reading program into a second-semester Japanese language course in an effort to improve students’ Japanese reading comprehension. (Reading in a Foreign Language, Apr. 2004.) The professors collected 266 books originally written for Japanese children and required their students to read at least 40 of them as part of the grade in the course. The books were categorized into reading levels (color coded for easy selection) according L02185 *