Date: 11th February 2023 (Saturday), 10:00 - 12:30 GMT
Location: Online seminar using Zoom software
Speaker: Professor Kei Ishiguro (Director of The Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; Collaborative Professor, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University) <profile>
Maximum number of participants: 80
Spoken language: Japanese
Target audience:
Japanese language educators and post-graduate university students in the United Kingdom and Europe. (Applications from those in other regions will also be accepted if places are available).

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*Please note the cancellation is not possible once the ticket has been ordered.
Application deadline: 6th February 2023 (Monday), 10:00 GMT
* Once the number of places has been filled, applications will close.

<Outline of the seminar>

Learners nowadays do not bring paper dictionaries to the classroom, but instead use smartphones. Even students who do not use a smartphone tend to use a computer or a tablet to look up words using dictionaries, search engines and applications on the internet.

But when, where, what, and how are learners using these devices to look things up? Are they getting to the information they need as a result? The reality is that Japanese language teachers do not know the answers to these questions.

Therefore, with the cooperation of teachers from the British Association for Teaching Japanese as a foreign language (BATJ), we asked learners enrolled in British universities to record screenshots as they looked up Japanese expressions using digital tools. Based on this data, we will examine learners' behaviour in a workshop style and consider how dictionary use can be appropriate in the age of AI.

Event Information

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