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Are ‘advanced’ Japanese language programs sustainable? A look at Australia, New Zealand and Singapore

  • Associate Professor Carol Hayes, Associate Professor Ikuko Nakane, Nagisa Fukui, Masanori Nagami, Dr Masayoshi Ogino and Dr Emi Otsuji,

Beyond Demon Slayer and Pokemon what motivates students and how can that knowledge help universities to build the best language programs?

COVID-19 underlines the importance of learning languages via emerging technologies

  • Dr Grace Yue Qi,

Language educators need to seriously take new technologies into account.

The necessity of teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic could result in better Japanese language teaching

  • Dr Yasuhisa Watanabe,

The online environment can’t replicate all aspects of classroom language instruction, but online education does have benefits.

Learning how to say ‘you’ in Indonesian: why it’s time to embrace its complexity

  • Associate Professor Dwi Noverini Djenar,

There is a seemingly simple aspect of Indonesian that eludes learners: how to say ‘you’ to an addressee.

Learning Asian languages is about much more than trade and employability and universities should convey this

  • Dr Jun Ohashi & Hiroko Ohashi,

Australian universities should play an important role in articulating the educational value of foreign language learning beyond the ‘employability’ discourse.

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