Enabling Japanese Students to Identify and Write Rhymes

Learning language is a process that begins at birth. The process includes children listening to the people near them and then later imitating the sounds they hear. Talking, singing songs and reciting poems to babies and toddlers are another part of the process. Parents read stories to their children and many of those stories include rhyming words. Many children learn rhymes by hearing them again and again. Hearing, repeating and memorizing rhymes also are part of language learning. It is the goal of this paper to examine certain components of rhymes, aspects of children learning rhymes and the benefit of teaching rhymes to Japanese college students.