scholarly journals Current State of Japanese Language Education in Serbia and Proposal for Future Solutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Divna TRIČKOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Language Education ◽  
National Guideline ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Textbook Writing ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this paper is to address the state of the education system in Serbia in relation to Japanese language studies, with a particular focus on primary and secondary educational institutions. To start off, I will introduce the institutions where the Japanese language is being taught in Serbia, before turning my attention to the teaching programs (i.e. course guidelines as an accredited national guideline). Following that, I will present our Japanese language textbook writing projects. Finally, I will shed light on the problems we have faced and propose a number of potential solutions.

scholarly journals Overview of Japanese Language in Upper Secondary Education and School Curriculum in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Mariana LUNGU
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
General Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary

In this paper, I focus my attention on the problem of teaching Japanese as part of compulsory subjects in an upper secondary education to pupils aged between 15 to 19. This article starts out with a brief overview of the Romanian education system and the current state of Japanese teaching in the upper secondary education. As compared to other educational curricula, the Romanian education system focuses on competency-based curriculum emphasizing the applicability of knowledge and the development of competences in an integrated and inter-disciplinary approach. The Japanese Language is part of that curricular area named as Language and Communication. In the Romanian educational system, the process of teaching the Japanese language starts from lower secondary school and continues to upper secondary and then to university level. In the lower secondary school, pupils study the Japanese Language as an elective subject, while in the upper secondary school, they learn Japanese as a mandatory subject of the core curriculum and as an elective one of school-based curriculum. Next, attention is paid to outline the current situation of teaching Japanese in the upper-secondary education system, providing details of our curricula, types of subjects, and specific features of Japanese classes. Forms of Japanese language education vary greatly, as well as their target students and objectives. However, the focus of all is a balanced education in the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. In addition to the Japanese language study, Japanese syllabi provide cultural and general education to learn the properties in Japanese Society and about contemporary culture.

scholarly journals Remigration in Lithuania in the 21st Century: Readiness of the Education System to Accept Students from Returning Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Jurgita Bagdonaitė
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Education System ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Effective Integration

The article analyses the readiness of the Lithuanian education system to accept children from returning families. Moreover, it determines the problems and describes the factors hindering the effective integration of remigrant children. The summarised scientific literature is illustrated by empirical research data. Based on the aforementioned data of this study, it is concluded that the concept of education of remigrant children is ever-changing. The main obstacles that Lithuanian educational institutions are facing at the moment are Lithuanian language education and nurturing, a lack of tolerance and competencies of educators. The development and creation of a cooperative environment within the school is determined to be one of the most successful methods to facilitate the job of educators.

scholarly journals CURRENT STATE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND WAYS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
S.A. Uzakhbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Current State ◽  
Teacher Skills ◽  
Creative Contribution

The article examines the current state and problems of inclusive education in Kazakhstan, reveals the possibilities of inclusive education in the development of children with disabilities, suggests methods of psychological and pedagogical correction of professionally significant qualities of teacher skills necessary for working with children with special educational needs. Inclusive education requires constant creative contribution from everyone; all its participants (teachers, parents, children, administration, etc.) are involved in the creative process of education. For the successful implementation of inclusive education of children with special needs, changes in the education system itself are needed. The difficulty in solving the problem of working with children with disabilities is exacerbated by the professional incompetence of specialists of educational institutions, a lack of understanding in society of the possibilities of such children, who participate equally in society.

scholarly journals Toward More Inclusive Japanese Language Education: Incorporating an Awareness of Gender and Sexual Diversity among Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-371
Author(s):  
Jotaro Arimori
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Inclusive Learning ◽  
Service Professional ◽  
Service Training

Many educational institutions in North America have declared a commitment to enhancing the diversity of their students, and to providing a learning environment free of discrimination. This diversity unequivocally includes sexual orientation as well as gender identity and expression, and we teachers are expected to play a role in fulfilling this commitment. Nevertheless, there are few opportunities for us to learn about the diversity of gender and sexuality in pre-service training or in-service professional development for Japanese-language education. This paper addresses issues that may create challenges for LGBTQ learners of Japanese, paying special attention to heteronormativity in Japanese language teaching materials and linguistic norms and ideology regarding gendered expression in Japanese, and suggests ways teachers might deal with these issues in order to create an inclusive learning environment for all students regardless of their gender and sexuality.

scholarly journals THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN VOLGOGRAD REGION: CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

2016 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
N. V. Sorokina ◽  
L. A. Grigorieva
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Current State ◽  
Volgograd Region

The article discusses the relevance, role and place of education in the development of the state, society and economy. The analysis and describes dynamics of the number of students in educational institutions of the Volgograd region, as well as the dynamics of the number of educational institutions from 2013 to 2015.

scholarly journals Foreword

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
GOLOB Nina
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
The Uk

With this volume, Acta linguistica is entering its 5th year. We would like to announce, with our great pleasure, that the journal has undergone some changes  and will from now be published twice a year, with its summer and winter volume. This summer volume includes researches with a common topic of practicing a language, whether in educational, and religious institutions, or in the languages primary surroundings. In this spirit, the volume is divided into two parts, with the first devoted to the methodology of language teaching, focusing mainly on Chinese and Japanese language and presently still under-researched dyslexia role in language studies, and the second focusing on under-documented languages and their gap between language policies and the actual state of language use.The first paper by Katja Simončič, entitled Evaluating Approaches to Teaching and Learning Chinese Vocabulary from the Learning Theories Perspective: An Experimental Case Study, discusses two basic approaches to teaching Chinese vocabulary, and evaluates them based on the results of experimental study on Slovene students of Chinese.The next two papers deal with the different lexica in Japanese language. Nataliia Vitalievna Kutafeva's research, entitled Japanese Onomatopoeic Expressions with Quantitative Meaning analyzes the lexical mode of expression of quantitative meanings and their semantics with the help of onomatopoeic (giongo) and mimetic (gitaigo) words, and based on it proposes the new arrangement of semantic groups.Kiyomi Fujii’s research, entitled Blogging Identity: How L2 Learners Express Themselves, discusses identity expression in blogs by Japanese language learners on the intermediate and advanced level.The paper by Nagisa Moritoki Škof, Japanese Language Education and Dyslexia: On the Necessity of Dyslexia Research, shows an insight to dyslexia and through an outline of the present state of accepting and treating leaning disabilities in the Japanese education system stresses the  importance of incounting dyslexia in language education in general.Manel Herat in his paper Functions of English vs. Other Languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist Rituals in the UK, analyzes the language shifts from the Sinhala and Pali languages to English at Buddhist festivals and sermons in UK. Next paper by Ali Ammar and his colleagues, Language Policy and Medium of Instruction Issue in Pakistan, briefly re-explores the situation of languages in the country and studies the latest language policy of Pakistan and its implications for local languages.The last research paper in this volume Bhadarwahi: A Typological Sketch was written by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi and is an attempt to describe phonological and morphosyntactic features of the under-documented Bhadarwahi language belonging to Indo-Aryan language family.Finally, in the context of describing under-documented languages, the influence of the existing language policy is also noticed by Erwin Soriano FERNANDEZ and his book review on Pangasinan, entitled Panuntunán na Ortograpiya éd salitan PANGASINAN 2012. Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

scholarly journals Psychological Service in Higher Education System: Problems and Urgent Tasks

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
O.O. Andronnikova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Current State ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University

The article is aimed at analyzing the current state and problems of the formation of the psychological service in the higher education system. The goals of the psychological service and current tasks associated with the requirements of the time are highlighted, the need for the transformation of the tasks and areas of the psychological service in the higher education system is noted. The main problems that hinder the effective development of the psychological service are described. The necessity of transforming previously existing ideas about the organization of psychological support in higher educational institutions is noted. This need is justified by the challenges of the time and, in turn, requires an integrated approach to combining theory, practice, the tasks of training and personality formation in conditions of social instability and the growth of crisis interventions. As new requirements for the psychological service are highlighted, firstly: the need to organize psychological counseling and psychotherapy; secondly: the organization of work aimed at developing students' skills in maintaining their own mental health; thirdly: the implementation of the dispatching function of the psychological service of the university. This is necessary to diagnose student troubles and refer them to the necessary specialists.

Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions for Teaching Native Languages That Have the Status of State Languages of the Republics in Basic General Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
Anna Savvinova
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Current State ◽  
Technical Control ◽  
The Status

One of the necessary conditions for the successful functioning of a balanced system of language education is a quality study of Russian and native languages. The study of the mother tongue in high school is based on the education of a person who knows and respects his mother tongue, the formation of language competence, which includes the necessary elements of knowledge about the language system. The formation and increase of motivation to learn the native language of students is carried out with the targeted creation of organizational and pedagogical conditions and their effective management. The article discusses the issue of creating organizational and pedagogical conditions for teaching native languages that have the status of the state languages of the republics. The main organizational and pedagogical conditions that are of paramount importance for the formation of balanced bilingualism in children in organizations of basic general education, conducting educational activities in their native languages: motivational, organizational, personnel, material and technical, control and evaluation are identified. The results of a study of the current state of functioning of native languages in the republics of Altai, Komi, Sakha (Yakutia), Tatarstan, Tyva are presented. The concepts of «organizational and pedagogical conditions» and its components are clarified. Based on the results obtained, methodological recommendations have been developed for creating the organizational and pedagogical conditions for teaching mother tongues in educational institutions where two state languages are taught.

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