SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE (ICPLJ6) will be held on March 1 & 2, 2008 at the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University. The Keynote Speakers will be Satoshi Kinsui of Osaka University, Japan, click here.
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE (ICPLJ5) was held on March 4 & 5, 2006 at the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University. The Keynote Speaker was Naomi Hanaoka McGloin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison click here.
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE (ICPLJ4) was held on April 3 & 4, 2004 at the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University. The Keynote Speakers were Timothy J. Vance, University of Arizona, and Harumi Befu, Stanford University. A book that includes the papers presented at ICPLJ4 will appear shortly. For more information, click here.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE (ICPLJ3) was held on March 22 & 23, 2002 at the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University. The Keynote Speaker was Wesley M. Jacobsen, Harvard University. For information about the book that includes the papers presented at ICPLJ3, click here.
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE (ICPLJ2) was held on April 1 and 2, 2000 at the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University. The Keynote Speakers were Professor Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University and Professor Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku, UC San Diego. The Sunday event included a Pedagogy Workshop by Mutsuko Endo Hudson. For information about the book that includes the papers presented at ICPLJ2, click here.
The First International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ1), which was held in memory of Professor Toshiko Mishima in May 1998, was a great success, attended by 200 linguists and Japanese-language teachers from the United States, Canada, and Japan. The conference accomplished its aim to promote dialogue and exchanges between linguists and teachers of Japanese and the applications of linguists' research findings to the teaching of the Japanese language. For information about the book that includes the papers presented at ICPLJ1, click
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YOU CAN RECAPTURE THE EXCITEMENT AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF ICPLJ1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 IN BOOKS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND JAPANESE!
For instance, presentations made ICPLJ2, including keynote speeches by Professor Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University and Professor Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku, UC San Diego, was published in Japanese by Kuroshio Shuppan, a major Japanese publisher in the field of linguistics. You can see the contents of the book by clicking here.
The presentations made at ICPLJ1, 3, 4 and 5 were also published in book form by Kurosio Publishers.
Another book project in English, Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language (2007) was in collaboration with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, a product reflecting their belief that the Fifth ICPLJ could contribute to the advancement of the teaching of Japanese as well as Japanese linguistics.
The publication of the papers both in English and Japanese has thus enabled the ideas presented at the conferences to reach an even larger audience around the world, further benefiting numerous researchers, teachers, and their students.
THE TOSHIKO MISHIMA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
The Center for the Advancement of the Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture at San Francisco State University and the Japanese Program invite applications for the 2001 Toshiko Mishima Memorial Scholarships. Full-time students (undergraduate and graduate) enrolled in the SFSU Japanese Program are encouraged to apply. The shcolarships were established in 1998 with the generous donations from the estate of Professor Toshiko Mishima (Japanese Program Coordinator 1966-1996).
Number and Amount of Scholarships to Be Awarded: Three $600.00 scholarships (One for a lower-division undergraduate student, one for an upper-division undergraduate student, and one for a graduate student).
Eligibility: Applicants should be full-time SF State students who enroll in both fall and spring semesters to major in Japanese.
Application Deadline: TBA.
Application Procedure: Submit the following documents to the Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture c/o the Coordinator of the Japanese Program.
(1) A double-spaced, two-page essay (in English for the lower-division students; in Japanese for the upper-division & graduate students) describing the applicant's academic, personal, and/or professional achievements and goals as well as the ways in which the Japanese studies contribute to the applicant's life and his/her (present and/or future) work for the community.
(2) A copy of the applicant's SFSU transcript (an unofficial transcript printed from the university's web page is acceptable) including the grades earned in the fall semester. Highlight all the Japanese courses listed with a marker pen
Recipients of the Toshiko Mishima Memorial Scholarships in the Past:
1998-1999: Robert Beckley (undergraduate); Wing Yan Wong (undergraduate); Emi Fujiyama (graudate)
1999-2000: Merit Ma (undergraduate); Yoko Katagiri (graduate)
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