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.
Three of the writers are New Zealanders and one, Yuten Sawanishi, is a Japanese novelist and teacher of Japanese literature who is visiting Auckland this month. He is on the board of the Kyoto Writers Residency, in which New Zealand writer Paula Morris participated last year.
The feature contains a link to our free bilingual e-sampler called Taste of Clouds: New Zealand Writers Encounter Japan, including novel excerpts, stories, personal essays and poetry.
We would love for you to share the link to the feature and the sampler with your networks.
Ngā mihi nui,
Florence Crick-Friesen (on behalf of Paula Morris)
Ambassador’s Prize Ceremony for Massey & Victoria University Students On 15th March 2023, the Embassy held the Ambassador’s prize ceremony for Japanese language students from Massey University and Victoria University. Each of the recipients was selected as the most outstanding Japanese language student for each year from 2020 to 2022 in their courses at their respective universities. Recipients of the Ambassador’s prize are: Ms Hannah Rose Lee: 2020 Recipient – Massey University Ms Carol Geraldine Torres Tamayo: 2022 Recipient – Massey University Ms Jordan Schulde: 2020 Recipient – Victoria University of Wellington Mr Joshua Jeffery: 2022 Recipient – Victoria University of Wellington *Mr Joel Coutts (2021 Recipient – Massey University) and Ms Alexandra Atkins (2022 Recipient – Victoria University of Wellington) also received the prize in absentia. The Embassy has held the ceremony for about 15 years for the purpose of acknowledging the hard work of Japanese language students at both universities. We are glad to be able to hold this for the first time since COVID started. We congratulate all the recipients for their success, and hope that they will keep up the good work in the future.
Applications are now open for the Sunday 2 July Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)! For more information or to download an application please see the following website.
