Synopses & Reviews
In recent years, Japanese has become the fourth most commonly taught foreign language at the college level in the United States. As the number of students who study Japanese has increased, the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language has been established as an important academic field of study. This technical report includes nine contributions to the advancement of this field, encompassing the following five important issues: literature and literature teaching, technology in the language classroom, orthography, testing, and grammatical vs. pragmatic approaches to language teaching.
Haruko M. Cook is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Hawai'i. Kyoko Hijirida is professor of Japanese at the University of Hawai'i. Mildred Tahara is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Hawai'i.
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Includes bibliographical references.Technical report (University of Hawaii at Manoa. Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center) ; #15.