Congratulations to Valerie Liang for her winning speech and a big thank you to all the participants for the huge amount of time and effort they put into their entries.
As you may have heard the Japan Foundation Sydney is running an online Talent Contest, J-Talent for the Oceania Region.
https://jpf.org.au/events/whats-your-j-talent/
Participants are encouraged to showcase their Japan-related talents, including Japanese language from the below four categories.
Japanese Language
Lifestyle
Traditional Arts and Culture
Pop Culture
We invite you and your students to enter the contest, particularly the Japanese Language category and have fun with the Japanese Language for the chance to win some great prizes! Entries can be up to 2 minutes in length and individual, group and family entries are strongly encouraged.
A fifth free topic (Your choice) has been added to the four topics to make it easier for everyone to enter.
There are two points regarding the Japanese language, which may appear overwhelming however please be aware that the weighting of this criteria is much smaller than content and video. The focus is squarely on having fun with language, so please encourage all of your students to not be shy and have a try!
If you or your students don’t feel comfortable entering the language category, we warmly welcome you to enter one of the other categories (lifestyle, traditional arts and culture, pop culture) and show off your hidden Japan-related talents!
We have added a fun sample video (Japanese) of 30 seconds to help get some ideas flowing (however entries can be of up to 2 minutes). Please see it here:https://youtu.be/jEpfb28EPBo
As mentioned in the guidelines, Japanese language audio should be accompanied by English subtitles for the enjoyment of all. To make this easier, we have added a ‘how-to’ tutorial video here:https://youtu.be/9ZKoRKxqwdsCaptions
We hope this helps inspire you and/or your students to enter this fun contest and unleash their #JTalent.
Submissions are being accepted until October 31, so there’s plenty of time to enter!
The seventh Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand (JSANZ) Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest is now accepting applications until September 11 2020.
Please find the full guidelines on this website under ‘Resources’.
If you would like to see a video of our 2019 winner, Alisha Elliott’s speech please look at the November 13 post on this page.
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s contest.
1st place Alisha Elliott (IPU) 挑戦から得たもの 2nd place Jordan Schulde (Victoria University of Wellington) 私の日本の経験 3rd place Nicki Jackson (Ara Institute) 私が日本語を学ぶ本当の理由
We would like to share the video of the JSANZ Speech Contest winner, Alisha Elliott from IPU.
The project that a JSANZ team started in 2016 “Why I Am Studying Japanese: A National Survey Revealing the Voices of New Zealand Tertiary Students” has just been published in the journal ‘Japanese Studies’ (an Australia-based journal).
Thank you all very much for helping us to encourage students to go online for the survey, and to join the focus group sessions.
The following is the eprint link. Please feel free to pass on the link to anyone who may be interested in the findings of this project.
The School of Language and Culture offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in various fields of applied linguistics. Applications are invited for a permanent, full-time lecturing position in our undergraduate and postgraduate Japanese language and applied linguistics programmes.
Applicants should have a relevant PhD qualification, be research-active with a proven track record of publications, and have expertise and experience in the teaching of Japanese language and culture at university level. They should be willing to make a significant contribution to the academic and research community of the School. Supervisory experience and a background in language teacher education, or other areas of applied linguistics, will be advantageous.
For more information, please refer to Position Description.
Start date: 3 February 2020. It may be possible to negotiate a later start date.
Inquiries of an academic nature should be made to Sharon Harvey, Head of School: sharvey@aut.ac.nz
Closing date for applications: 3 December 2019.
Auckland University of Technology is an EEO employer, we are committed to the Treaty of Waitangi and to equity. AUT aspires to be the University of choice for Maori and Pacific communities.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through the online application process. For further information, please send us an enquiry here or call 921 9499. Please note we are happy to answer your questions but we do not accept applications by email. You will need to apply through the standard registration process.
