Date: 19th February 2022 (Saturday), 15:00 – 18:00 GMT
Location: Online seminar using Zoom software
Speaker: Dr Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku (University of California, San Diego) <biography>
Fee: 5 pounds (BATJ members), 10 pounds (non-members)
Maximum number of participants: 200
Spoken language: Japanese

Target audience; Japanese language educators in the United Kingdom and Europe. (Applications from those in other regions will also be accepted if places are available). Post-graduate university students specialising in Japanese language education in the United Kingdom and Europe are also welcomed to join.

Registration and payment: To register, please go to our Eventbrite page
*Please note the cancellation is not possible once the ticket has been ordered.

Registration deadline: 7th February 2022 (Monday), 12:00 GMT
*Once the number of places has been filled, applications will close.

<Outline of the seminar>
We are nearly two years into a pandemic. We, Japanese language educators, have been faced with many challenges in this new chaotic learning environment, and have been trying to overcome them to continue educating our students effectively. In this talk, I will discuss the state of the current learning environment, what we have lost, what we have gained, and what instructional and assessment strategies we have been using. The end of the current pandemic is still out of sight and the learning environment is expected to continue changing for some time to come. I will explore what strategies Japanese language educators and students should use to adapt in the future to an ever-changing and ambiguous learning environment.

Event information

Planned schedule: There may be an optional social gathering after the seminar (TBC)

Organisers: The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and the Japan Foundation, London.