JSANZ is excited to announce the 2024 Speech Contest. Here are some encouraging words from Takahashi sensei:
Dear All,
Thank you very much for your patience. I am very pleased to share with you this year’s JSANZ Speech Contest guidelines and the poster. Please be encouraged to participate in the contest with your students. As we are all aware, the humanities are all under severe pressure in the current academic climate in this part of the world, and we are all tasked with so many commitments on a daily basis. Yet, this is also a rare chance to promote our activities to those who normally do not have any knowledge of Japanese studies (including/especially [!] the senior leadership team of respective institutions). So, please tell not only your students but also your line managers and above about this event, as well as the significance of this kind of event for our students to grow both as a Japanese learner and as a young adult.
It is officially the 10th anniversary of JSANZ (Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand). Over the past few years the teaching and learning of languages has been beset on all fronts by a number of seemingly insurmountable issues (university redundancies and staff cuts; Artificial Intelligence; worldwide serious decline in language learner numbers; Covid and online learning problems etc.)
Our anniversary is a big reason to turn our backs on all of the above for a moment and celebrate, as is the increased interest, among New Zealanders, in Japan as a tourist destination. It is also an opportunity to do some soul searching and discussion about where we go from here.
A newsletter will be sent out to all members soon and we intend to include a selection of short clips from members that show what the general trends are and what the membership is thinking, so now is the perfect time to update us with your contact detail changes and give us your opinions. You can message us here on Facebook, or on our website www.jasanz.org
Get your responses in quickly before the Newsletter is completed.
Meanwhile congratulations and a huge thank you to the president and executive members of the JSANZ teachers network, to our stakeholders for their ongoing valued support and to all our members working for the cause of Japanese language and Japanese studies in the
Once again we are honoured to have so many high quality participants and to be able to congratulate three outstanding winners in the 2023 JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest. The winner this year is Sua Yoo from Auckland University and in second place, Sang Lee Yun from University of Canterbury. Raz Tripp, also from University of Canterbury, was the third place winner.
We will give details of the prizegiving and provide videos of the winning speeches as soon as we can.
今年度スピーチコンテストの結果をご報告致します。
優勝者はオークランド大学のSua Yooさんとなりました。
2位は、Sang Lee Yunさん、3位はRaz Trippさんで、共にカンタベリー大学在籍です。
[The Japan Foundation Program Guidelines for FY 2024]
The latest version of the Program Guidelines provides information and support for individuals and organizations applying for international exchange programs.
The Japan Foundation conducts programs for the three major areas of Arts and Cultural Exchange, Japanese-Language Education, as well as Japanese Studies and International Dialogue.
Please check the website for more details and application deadlines.
* Applications will be accepted electronically through the Japan Foundation’s Online Application Portal. Please check the website for details on application procedures.
The conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA in August 2024. It is being co-hosted by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) and the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE)
Proposals for paper presentations, poster presentations, and interactive workshops can be submitted until Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, 11:59 pm US Central Time. Please check out details at Call for Papers
The poster has been saved as a pdf file for you to download. Please make sure your students see it. Applications open on 1st June and close on 1st August.
I appreciate your patience. I am Shin Takahashi from Victoria University of Wellington. I am pleased to share the guidelines for this year’s JSANZ Speech Contest. There are no significant changes in text from last year. But there is one thing I would like to draw your attention to, which is the schedule. The application period has opened today and will end on 1 August. Also, thanks to Mr Shimizu of Nisuikai, the winner of this year’s speech contest will be given round-trip tickets to Japan. So, thank you very much for this incredibly generous offer. Last but not least, I would like to thank Michiyo-sensei for her patience and kind guidance and Nishikawa Yoshie-sensei, who practically has done most of the groundwork.
The situation and challenges of children in South Korea who are connected to Japan
韓国における日本と繋がる子どもたちの状況と課題
The seminar will be conducted in Japanese.
※本セミナーは日本語で行われます。
For our fifteenth Japanese education seminar with UNSW, exploring the theme of raising Japanese-speaking children in Australia, we have invited for Keiko Sakurai (Inha University), president of Korea Association of Heritage Japanese Language as well as three of her fellow committee members.
【Message from Korea Association of Heritage Japanese Language】
South Korea is now transforming into a multicultural society. In the seminar, we will discuss the situation of children with connections to Japan (Keishogo children), practices and initiatives for Japanese education at home and outside home, as well as issues and challenges associated with Japanese education, based on our research.
We have heard that there is a need to develop teaching materials, classroom activity plans and teaching methods suited to local conditions. Hence, our research group joined with self-help groups active in South Korea and formed a project team, compiling a collection of ideas for classroom resources. We would like to introduce them to you and invite you to compare them.
The relationship between Japan and South Korea has not been easy to resolve, and educating children about the history between the two nations is inevitable. It is a factor in forming the identities of these children, who will be a bridge between the two countries. Here, we would like to introduce the teaching method that our research group conducted in both Japan and South Korea on the theme of the Joseon missions to Japan. Australia and South Korea have some differences, but there must be many common issues too. In the seminar, we would like to consider such issues in relation to Keishogo education in these two countries and beyond.
