The Japan Foundation is established by the people of Japan through its government to promote Japanese arts and culture, history, humanities and social sciences and language around the world. The Nihongo Library was established in 1991 to provide access to Japanese language instructional materials to the Japanese language educators in the United States and Canada. The Breeze should help in developing a strong regional and national networks in teaching Japanese. The aim of these pages is to illustrate creative pedagogical uses of the Web and Internet technologies that can be adapted to the teaching of any foreign language. The focus here is on showing the beginning web user how to create and incorporate web resources for teaching a foreign language.
Teachers can search for materials according to topic, function, level, and key words.
The materials were created by practicing teachers in Oregon with support from the Nippon Foundation of Tokyo. Teams of K-12 and college teachers targeted specific themes and developed materials most likely to be useful to secondary students.