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
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