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The Alliance offers training and professional development to Japanese
language teachers in a variety of forms: by sponsoring workshops
and summer institutes, by awarding individual small grants, and
by sponsoring publications and materials. Classroom materials developed
by teachers participating in these activities are offered to others
in the field via this website.
Please check back regularly for new additions to the site.
Summer Language, Culture
and Technology Institute, Urawa, Japan 2004
A variety of multimedia resources designed for classroom
use in grades K-12.
Includes PowerPoint, digital video, interviews, still photography,
and the resources of the Internet.
These files are ready to be downloaded for use in classrooms.
Gakusei
Seikatsu (Student Life in Japan) website
This multimedia website was created by participants in AATJ’s
Summer 2006 Language, Culture, and Technology Institute in Urawa,
Japan. It has been revised and updated and contains a variety of
materials (music, films, interviews, and documents) on both elementary
and high-school education in Japan.
More classroom materials by participants in AATJ’s 2006 Summer
Institute will
be posted soon, as well as materials developed during a 2007
Summer Institute for K-16 teachers.
JLTN Quarterly Classroom Materials Supplements
The Japanese Language Teachers Network (JLTN) Quarterly in the 1990s
published classroom materials by high school teachers. These materials,
focusing not only on language learning but on aspects of Japanese
culture and society, were offered as an early version of "freeware,"
which could be easily copied and used by teachers in their own classes.
Materials that are available in electronic form can be downloaded
here. Other materials are available in printed form by writing to
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