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Establishing and Enhancing Chinese and Japanese Language Programs
ALLEX enables universities to begin or maintain a high quality Chinese or Japanese language program by providing them with professionally trained, native Chinese or Japanese instructors. Instructors teach one or two courses of elementary Japanese emphasizing all four language skills, spoken, listening, reading and writing, with a curriculum specially designed for native English speakers.
News from ALLEX
Professor Arakawa Publishes Book
ALLEX Japan collaborator Yohey Arakawa, Associate Professor of Japanese at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, published a new book about teaching Japanese for foreign students. Check it out! Insightful, pertinent, and humorous.
ALLEX Graduate Profiled in Chronicle of Higher Education
Congratulations to Ikuko Aoyama, 2005 ALLEX Japanese lecturer at Baylor University and current doctoral student at Baylor, for having her research profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week. See the full article here.
Voices of Graduates
West Texas A&M University Starts new Japanese Program
STUDENTS ENROLLED IN HISTORY 4096 at West Texas A&M University are getting the real deal this year. The Japanese language course, now in its second year, is being taught by a real, honest-to-gosh Japanese national. Satoshi Ozeki, a teacher from Tokyo, is teaching students the Japanese language in History 4096 while working on his master’s degree in counseling at WTAMU.