In this study, 44 native Chinese speakers (hereinafter referred to as “Chinese NS”) and 13 native Korean speakers (hereinafter referred to as “Korean NS”) who were studying at the undergraduate level in a Japanese university were tested on their grammatical and lexical knowledge of Japanese (based on levels N5-N1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test), thrice, at regular intervals in order to investigate how the total rate of correct answers and the correct answer rate by difficulty level changed, and whether the patterns in the changes differed according to the native language of the learner. As a result, in terms of the total correct answer rate, for Chinese NS, a U-shaped result was observed across tests 1, 2, and 3, whereas for Korean NS, the scores grew progressively higher across tests 1, 2, and 3. In addition, looking at correct answer rate by the difficulty level of the questions, for Chinese NS, a U-shaped curve was observed in the N4 and N5 levels, while the scores were highest in test 3 of the N2 and N1 levels. Among Korean NS, the only level in which the highest scores were observed in test 3 was for the N4 level.
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Journal of the Research Center for Shin-Nagasaki Studies