STUDENTS' MASTERY ON WRITING KANJI AT JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF UNP

The background of this research was the importance of masteringKanji in learning Japanese since most Japanese transcriptions use it. However, the large number of Kanjicharacters gave students difficulty to understand kanji.The objective of this researchis was to study Kanji mastery level of  7th semester students of Japanese Education program in the academic year of 2016. This quantitative research applied the descriptive method. The object of the research was 25 students. To select the sample of the research is by using the purposive sampling technique. Data were taken fromthe scores of the students’ Kanjitest. The instrument of the research was an essay test which measured the students’ abilities in writing the Kanjicharacters. Based on the research results, it is found that the students’ mastery was in the “satisfactory” classification with score of 59,68.