The 24th ICR seminar will be held on Tuesday April 5. Problems of language education in Japan and Slovenia will be the topic of this seminar. Neither participation fee nor advanced registration is required, so please feel free to join!
Problems of Language Education in Japan and Slovenia
Date: Tuesday, April 5 14:00-16:00
Place: University of Tsukuba Humanities and Social Sciences Building 1C Conference Room 303
Lecturers:
・Prof. Dr. Branka Kalenić-Ramšak, provost of Faculty of Arts
・Dr. Mojca Nidorfer-Šiškovič, director of Centre for Slovenian Language & Culture.
・Prof. Masaki Ono (Language and Communication Science Laboratory, University of Tsukuba)
・Prof. Saburo Aoki (ARENA, University of Tsukuba)
Outline of the Seminar: We will invite Prof. Dr. Branka Kalenić-Ramšak, provost of Faculty of Arts and Dr. Mojca Nidorfer-Šiškovič, director of Centre for Slovenian Language & Culture from University of Ljubljana. They will give a presentation of problems in language education in Slovenia and from ICR we will give a presentation of problems in foreign language education for Japanese students and Japanese education for foreign students. We will disclose problems of both countries and compare the how both countries balance the development of collage education done in English and mother tongue education.