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BREEZE #86

DECEMBER, 2014: BREEZE ISSUE #86
A FREE MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER FOR FRIENDS OF JAPAN & TEACHERS OF JAPANESE

JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION UPDATE #13:
JFLA AT ACTFL 2014by Amanda Rollins, Japanese Language Program Coordinator
To reach out to Japanese language teachers from around the country, JFLA went in force to the American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Language Expo 2014. It washeld in beautiful San Antonio, Texas from November 21st to the 23rd.
More than 200 Japanese language teachers attended the event – we know this because we ran out ofgoodie bags at the booth! Every year, the Exhibit Hall features a special area for Japan-related booths
called the “Japan Pavilion.” New faces and old friends dropped by to network, scope out teachingmaterials, and ask about resources.
The Leadership Workshop co-organized by JFLA and theAmerican Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) wasa huge success. 24 representatives from AATJ’s 24
affiliates, chosen by their teachers’ associations for theirpotential to become future leaders of the field, attended
this year’s conference and participated in a variety ofsessions together. They discussed the challenges
Japanese language education faces in their regions andcreative solutions for overcoming them. Everyone cameaway with a refreshed feeling and the motivation to keep
working hard to strengthen the state of Japanese
language education in America.
Program coordinator Amanda Rollins presented the debut of JFLA’s new advocacy website SPEAKJAPANto an enthusiastic group of teachers, just in time for Fall 2015 class selection season. Want to know whyyou should study Japanese? Check out SPEAKJAPAN for a list of exciting reasons. Also, you’ll find thatwe’ve redesigned our Language Education page to be easier to navigate, and added a new useful pagefor teachers: Real Advocacy Stories. Check it out for advocacy ideas!
Other highlights from the conference include:
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A series of videos featuring Japanese-language team-teaching, led byparticipants in JFLA’s own Japanese-Language Education AssistantProgram (J-LEAP). The videos showed the audience exactly how twoteachers can teach almost entirely in Japanese from the very first day.
Applications are available now for schools interested in hosting a nativespeaking assistant teacher.
Mieko Avello (Florida International University) and Kazue Masuyama(California State University, Sacramento) treated us to an energizing
presentation, “Osu! The Ouendan: Ultimate Collobration, Motivation, andAdvocacy.” They described an amazing collaborative class in which
students developed an “ouendan (応援団)” cheer group by working withart and band students. The audience all got up and did some encouraging cheers for Japanese language!

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