Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching

Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku is Professor in the School of Global Policy & Strategy at University of California San Diego, USA. Fumiko Nazikian is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at Columbia University, USA. Jisuk Park is Assistant Professor of Japanese language at University of Toronto, Canada.

1 Social Networking Approach: Language Education for Global Citizenship

Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku

2 Widening a Global View Through Connecting With Multicultural Speakers

Fumiko Nazikian

3 Imagining an Alternative: "What if?" Project – Novice to Intermediate level

Jisuk Park

4 Who Are We? Rediscovering and Reconstructing Our Identities Through Personal Storytelling, Using the SNA Approach

Asami Tsuda

5 Developing JFL Learners’ Reading and Writing Skills with the SNA

Yuki Matsuda

6 "Ikumen" Project in the San Diego Japanese Community

Izumi Takeda

7 Learning Japanese Through Connection

Cao Le Dung Chi

8 Building Learning Communities Through a Character Bento Project

Junko Tokuda Simpson

9 Connecting With Local Japanese Communities: Community Involvement Projects and the SNA

Tomoko Shibata and Yoko Katagiri