Bridges Between Japanese Culture and Language Teaching

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5669-6 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays introduces various ways in which instructors of Japanese language and culture in universities and colleges can generate, maintain, and increase students' interest in learning the Japanese language by using anime, manga, pop music, folktales, films, literary works, neighboring communities, tea ceremony, and calligraphy. The essays discuss various teaching experiences and projects of teachers and scholars in English-speaking countries such as the US, Australia, and New Zealand, and thus, the collection inevitably deals with the problem of low enrollment in foreign language courses. Explaining pedagogical theories and methods, this book will be a useful companion for teachers who are looking for specific Japanese cultural materials they should use and who want to learn how they should use various cultural aspects and products to enhance students' engagement in learning the language and culture in higher education.

Katsuya Izumi is currently a senior lecturer and the Head of the Japanese Section in Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut, USA). He has taught Japanese language at all levels, Japanese literature and films, Japanese calligraphy as well as American literature and English writing. He has published essays on Japanese American experiences of internment camps during WWII depicted in Japanese American literature, Japanese animation films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, and Makoto Shinkai, Japanese video games, and Japanese literature. His current pedagogical project is about how to use Japanese calligraphy to encourage college students to learn Japanese, and his research project is about the difference between Japanese imperialism and Western, mostly US, imperialism.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5669-2 / 1036456692
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5669-6 / 9781036456696
Zustand	Neuware