Sasakawa Fellowship Fund for Japanese Language Education
A programme to encourage Japanese language education and Japanese studies in New Zealand
Please
note - many application forms and information booklets are available on this
site. In order to view these items you require Adobe Acrobat Reader which is
available totally free to download and install
here.
Opportunities for Teachers
- Native Speaker Teacher Cluster Support
- School Trips to Japan: Travel Grant
- Support for Regional Language Camps, Speech Contests, Immersion Days
Scholarships for Students
- Teacher Education Students Scholarships
- Undergraduate Scholarships
- Undergraduate Students in Japan on a University Exchange Programme
Resources for Teachers
- Career profiles of former Japanese language students in New Zealand
- E-mail list for teachers of Japanese
- Kiwi Tsunami video documentary
- Guidelines for working with Japanese Interns
- National website for teachers and students of Japanese
- Relief Kits for teachers of Japanese
Special Projects
- CDROM for 7/8 Principals: "Introducing Japanese to your school" Simply save this powerpoint file (9mb) to your desktop, then click to open.
- Tokyo Foundation Essay Competition
- International Languages Week
- Running school trips to Japan
- The Negative L2 Climate: Understanding attrition among second language students
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2012 is the 60th Anniversary of NZ- Japan Relations
To celebrate, we are running two competition with prizes on offer:
1. The 'Learning Japanese is saiko' YouTube clip competition
2. The 'Where Can My Japanese Study Lead Me?' video competition, in association with NZJETAA.
Japanese Language Education in New Zealand:
Pilot Research Project
Click here for Expression of Interest information and here for the EOI proforma.
The Tertiary Teaching of Japanese in New Zealand Symposium
Issues in the Asian century, 8-9 December 2012. Click here
'Gene's Japan Trip' - an exciting DVD resource.
'Gene's Japan Trip' is an exciting DVD resource designed to promote an Intercultural Language Learning approach to Japanese. This resource is currently out of print, but a re-run can be organised if there is sufficient interest. Click here for more information.
‘What a Relief’ Listening Activities Kit now on CD
Click
here for more info.
Japanese Sister Schools and Homestays DVD
Belinda Sydenham and her Baradene College students have put together a DVD about their experiences as Homestay students, and at their sister schools in Sapporo and Tokyo in May 2008. In addition the camera accompanies one of the students on her visit to a friend in a traditional Japanese rural village, and shows us a day in the life of a student in a rural school. The DVD is 50 minutes in total and is divided into 8 chapters. Up-beat Japanese songs accompany the clips. Order from Naomi Collins for $8.00.
Kiwi Tsunami - making waves in Japanese.
Kiwi Tsunami now available on DVD. Order your free copy now. Click here for details.
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