Outreach
Japanese Pedagogy Workshop
Each year the Asian Studies Center, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education, hosts a Japanese Pedagogy Workshop for area K-12 and university-level language teachers.
April 19, 2008 — Annual Japanese Pedagogy Workshop
ASC hosted the Japanese pedagogy workshop for area K-16 teachers and college level instructors this year in Posvar Hall on the
Oakland
campus. This year, Dr. Yasuhiro Shirai of the University of Pittsburgh
led with the workshop "Shinde iru? Tabete iru? Teaching the Difference and Other Strategies for Language Acquisition," accompanied by Hiroyuki Good, East Asian Library Japanese Bibliographer presenting "Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Japanese" and Jennifer Murawski, Japan Exchange and Teaching Program 2005-2007 participant presenting "Reading the Air, Writing with Thumbs:
Introducing Students to Contemporary Japanese Youth Culture."
2008 Workshop Program (Microsoft Word)
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Dr. Yasuhiro Shirai
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
"Shinde iru? Tabete iru? Teaching the Difference and Other Strategies for Language Acquisition"
Hiroyuki Nagahashi Good
Japanese Bibliographer
East Asian Library
, University of Pittsburgh
"Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Japanese"
Jennifer Murawski
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program Participant, 2005-2007
Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
"Reading the Air, Writing with Thumbs: Introducing Students to Contemporary Japanese Youth Culture"
