Date: Saturday 27th November 2021, 10:00 - 13:00 (GMT, London)
Lecture: Dr Yukiyo Hamakawa (Centre for Japanese Language, Waseda University) <biography>
Participation: Online only (using Zoom)
Fee: BATJ members £5, non-member £10
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(*Please note the cancellation is not possible once the ticket has been ordered.)

Pre-seminar questionnaire regarding Kanji teaching: https://forms.gle/N8RZphz3GNi7fyx18

<Outline of the seminar>
How do you teach kanji? How many different ways of teaching kanji are there? This seminar will cover learners’ attitudes towards kanji learning – how learners learn kanji and their thoughts about it. This is followed by sharing our kanji teaching methods and classroom activities and a discussion on them by participants. After a short break, the speaker will introduce ‘Onoresho’ as an example of a classroom activity. Bring a brush pen or coloured pencils if you have one (you don’t need to have a brush pen to participate, of course).

Associate Professor at the Center for Japanese Language Education and Research, Waseda University. She holds a doctorate from the Graduate School of Cultural Science, Saitama University. She has been organizing the JSL Kanji Learning Study Group since 2004 and the Mental Health Study Group for Teachers of Japanese since 2018. Her publications include "Practical Kanji Teaching for Japanese Language Teachers" (Kuroshio Shuppan 2010) and "The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Teaching Method Series: Teaching Characters and Vocabulary" (Hitsuji Shobo 2011).