Events

JSANZ Speech Contest Winner – Video link included

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.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmT6U-nVHiKFPNkPFsy_uSg
Hopefully this will encourage your students to continue studying Japanese.

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National Survey Published

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. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BJMFFZT24KCNRIERYR4X/full?target=10.1080/10371397.2019.1678365

Employment

Lecturer Japanese Studies

Lecturer – Japanese Studies

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.

Here is a link: https://careers.aut.ac.nz/jobdetails?ajid=tfjMa

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IPU achieves Category 1 ranking

Congratulations IPU New Zealand (Palmerston North) on achieving a Category 1 ranking in the External Evaluation and Review (EER) report by NZQA released on Monday, 23 September 2019!
Following an on-site visit in June 2019, NZQA gave IPU New Zealand the Category 1 ranking of Highly Confident in educational performance and Confident in capability in self-assessment. 
IPU New Zealand.approaches its 30th anniversary next year.
The good news comes hot on the heels of the award of first place to IPU student Alisha Elliot in the JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest 2019.

Events

JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Speech Contest.

1st place    Alisha Elliot (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

Congratulations to all. The prize giving ceremony will be held at IPU on Saturday 28 September from 10-10:45am.

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AUT welcomes new Consul

AUT Japanese department held a morning tea on 14 June to welcome the new Consul, Sukeno san to his post at the Consulate General of Japan, Auckland, and to farewell Hayasaka san at the end of his two year post. Hayasaka san will be sorely missed for all the work he has done for Japanese language education and we look forward to working with Sukeno san after he settles in to his new life in New Zealand.