JLTANE Virtual Conference
Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England
Virtual Conference Hosted by Smith College
The 34th Annual Conference of the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England (JLTANE) will be a virtual conference this year, hosted by Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Saturday, June 12, 2021. The conference includes a keynote address by Professor Wako Tawa, Willem Schupf Professor in Asian Languages and Civilizations and director of language study at Amherst College.
Sponsors
JLTANE 2021 is supported by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Smith College, the Five College Center for East Asian Studies and the Five College East Asian Languages Program.
Keynote Speaker
Wako Tawa
Willem Schupf Professor in Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of Language Study, Amherst College
基調講演「日本語教育における原点の再考察」
Revisiting the Starting Points of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
Wako Tawa directs the Japanese language program in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College. The program offers a variety of Japanese courses, from beginning to advanced levels. The two main areas of Tawa’s research are writing Japanese grammar from a non-Western grammatical view, and foreign language teaching and learning processes.