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2016 Third UC Learning and Teaching Languages Symposium

From Ideas to Action

Raising the Visibility of Language Programmes: Collaborative Project

with Enhancement by Social Media

Dr Masayoshi OginoSchool of Language, Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury

Raising Visibility

Collaboration

Social Media

French

German

Spanish

Chinese

Source: http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/schooling/july_school_roll_returns/6052

Number of students (Y9-Y13) by language

Japanese

French

German

Spanish

Chinese

Japanese

Advocacy“Spreading awareness

about the benefits of learning Japanese

and the good points of your school program”http://www.jflalc.org/useful-resources.html

Vision

Value Visibility

Constantly raise our visibility in the community

Tohsaku (2013)

Effective Advocacy

Be visionary teachers

Add value to Japanese language teaching

How can we raise visibility?

Collaborative Dance Video Project

Collaborative Dance Video Project

NCEA Japanese Workshopat UC

Practice and video shoot at each school

One month before the workshop day

After the workshop Edited video available on YouTube

June

2014

2015

2016

Education Gazette

NZ Universities Japanese programme

BAILANDO en la clase de españolSpanish Language Learners in Christchurch, New Zealand

• Fun! • Dance, music, language, culture, team

effort, collaboration• Learn, dance, watch and share

• Gives a sense of• achievement• unity • belonging to a learning community

• Vehicle for raising visibility

Collaborative Dance ProjectWhat is good about it?

JAPAStage 3

JAPAStage 1

JAPAStage 2

Interaction using Facebook

Secondary Schools

in Christchurch

Collaboration

Interaction using Facebook

Collaborative project work

with a university in Japan

Senpai & Kohai Session

Students’ study groups

Interaction using Facebook

UC Japanese Programme

A process of knowledge construction

Acquisition of knowledge and skills

Sociocultural approach to language learning

Conclusion

The visibility for advocacy can be raisedeffectively through a collaborative projectbetween schools with the support of socialmedia.

This could lead to stronger connectionsamong language learners and teachers, whichhas the potential to revitalise and enrich ourlanguage programme.

Creating New Synergies: Approaches of Tertiary Japanese Programmes in New

Zealand

Thank youDr Masayoshi Ogino

masayoshi.ogino@canterbury.ac.nz

Fancy dancing now?