メルボルン大学では、カナダのブリティッシュコロンビア大学から特別教授として久保田竜子教授をお招きし、8月28日(金)にグローバル化と日本語・日本語教育に関するパブリック・フォーラムを開催します。
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Public Forum: Globalisation and Japanese Language
フォーラム：グローバル化と日本語
Date: Friday 28 August
Time: 5:00 – 6:30pm (food and drinks will be available after the forum)
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre (SMAC), The University of Melbourne
Map: http://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/158
For registration, please go to:
http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/ryukokubotaforum
Japanese is increasingly used in a variety of spaces/places by people of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This forum explores diversification of speakers and style of Japanese in a global context: at work and at play, from manga and J-pop to academic and business discourse. The forum will provide an opportunity for educators and those involved more broadly in Australia-Japan relations to discuss:
- Global movements of the Japanese language
- Japanese language at work and at play
- Connections and Disconnections: Japanese speaker communities
- Japanese in the contemporary classroom
This forum comprises of a panel discussion, which assembles a range of people from within the Japanese-speaking, learning, and teaching communities, small group discussions and an open Q&A session. The panelists are Professor Ryuko Kubota*, University of British Columbia; Ms Rongzhi Zhao, Mistubishi Australia Ltd.; Mr Masaya Fujino, Japanese coordinator, Melbourne High School; and Dr Claire Maree, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.