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SUMMARY:JFT Online ‘Sawakai’ for Japanese Teachers (53)
DESCRIPTION:JFT日本語教師オンライン茶話会のお知らせ\nJFT日本語教師オンライン茶話会では、授業で実践したことや感じていることなどを小グループで共有し合います。これからしてみたいと思っているアイデアや、ちょっと行き詰まっているなと感じていることなどでもかまいません。普段なかなか会えないカナダ各地の先生方とお話してみませんか。 \nカナダ国内からでしたら、どなたにもご参加いただけますので、ご興味のある方は本ページ下段よりお申し込みください。 \n第53回JFT日本語教師オンライン茶話会\n日時：2023年2月1日（水） 6:00pm ～ 6:40pm（東部時間）\nトピック：○○先生の体験談　～JEC日本語教育センター　高羽先生～ 「日本の会社を脱サラして、日本語教師になるまで、そして今」 \n体験談とともに、日本語教育ビデオの作成についてもお話を伺う予定です。\nHop! Step! Japan! \n対象者：カナダ在住の日本語教師、および、カナダ在住の日本語教育に興味のある方々 \n使用言語：日本語 \nJFTスタッフ：呉屋　由郁子、齋藤　典子 \nお問い合わせ先：齋藤　典子　Noriko_Saito@jpf.go.jp \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/sawakai230201/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:JFT Online Training for Japanese-Language Teachers - "Activate Your Japanese"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n*NEW*　講演の録画が公開されましたのでご覧ください：https://youtu.be/Gcvoer7rVsA \n\n日 時         2023年2月4日（土）4:00-6:30 p.m.（東部標準時） \nテーマ      ストラテジーで学ぶ日本語学習番組\n               「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」 \n講 師         菊岡 由夏（国際交流基金日本語国際センター 専任講師）\n                 石山 友之（国際交流基金日本語国際センター 専任講師） \n定　員     講演100名、ワークショップ50名\n                 ※カナダ在住の日本語教師の方を優先します。\n                 ※ワークショップのみの参加はできません。 \n言　語    日本語 \n内　容 （１）講演（70分）\n                ストラテジーで学ぶ日本語学習番組「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」\n            （２）ワークショップ（70分）　「ひきだすにほんご」の活用方法を考える \n講師から一言\n「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」は、ストラテジーから日本語を学ぶドラマ「スアン 日本へ行く！」を中心とした日本語学習番組です。「スアン 日本へ行く！」では、日本のホテルで働く主人公「スアン」が、生活や仕事の中で出会うコミュニケーションの課題を、ちょっと不思議なキャラクター「やんす」に助けられながらも、自分の持っている力を最大限に活かしながら乗り越えていく姿を描いています。この番組は、まず見る人が楽しめること、そして、教える人も学ぶ人もともに考えていけることを目指して制作しています。今回のセミナーを通して、みなさまに「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」の魅力をたくさんお届けしたいと思っています。 \n【参考資料】 \n日本語学習番組「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」PR動画 – YouTube\nひきだすにほんご　Activate Your Japanese!｜国際交流基金日本語国際センター (jpf.go.jp)\n077　日本語で、ともに生きる | 国際交流基金ウェブマガジン「をちこち」 (wochikochi.jp)\n日本語教育通信　日本語学習番組「ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!」ができました！ \nお申込み \nご参加をご希望の方は本ページ下段よりお申し込みください。\n申込期限：2月1日（水） \n問合先：国際交流基金トロント日本文化センター　Noriko_Saito@jpf.go.jp \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/hikidasu_workshop/
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SUMMARY:JFT Book Club Online - Three Short Works by NISHI Kanako: On beauty\, the Female Experience and Othering
DESCRIPTION:Thank you to all those who participated in The JFT Book Club Online – Three Short Works by NISHI Kanako: On beauty\, the Female Experience and Othering! \nFor those who missed the book club but are interested in reading her short works\, click here to check out the slides prepared by our guest moderator Ms. Kris Kosaka\, which includes discussion questions and supplementary explanations about Japanese culture depicted in the three short pieces by NISHI. Hope this helps enhance your reading experience! \n*NISHI Kanako’s short story VIO and the author’s essays On Beauty\, Sexual Violence\, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Merry Christmas are available online for free. See “WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE BOOK?” below for details or click here to check author details and where you can find more of her works. \n\nPlease continue to check the JFT’s website and newsletters for future events information. \n\n\n  \n \nFor the upcoming JFT Book Club Online\, we will discuss NISHI Kanako’s short story VIO along with the author’s essays On Beauty\, Sexual Violence\, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Merry Christmas. \nJoin our virtual conversation on the three thought-provoking works by NISHI Kanako\, one of the most iconic contemporary Japanese female authors and winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize. Although her works are incredibly popular in Japan\, most of NISHI Kanako’s books are yet to be translated into English. This will be an exciting opportunity to enjoy inspiring works by one of the most anticipated authors entering the international literary scene! \nKris Kosaka (Columnist\, The Japan Times) will be also joining us as a moderator to guide us through the session. \nRegister Here \n*Depending on the number of the participants and how the discussion goes\, we might extend the end time until 7 pm (EST). However\, if you have other commitments\, feel free to leave at 6:30 pm. \n*Please be aware that space may be limited.\n*Prior to the meeting\, an email will be sent to you with a website link and log-in password to enter the online Zoom meeting. \nIf you have any questions or concerns\, please don’t hesitate to email us at library_jftoronto@jpf.go.jp. First-time participants are always welcome! \n  \n\nWHY JOIN JFT BOOK CLUB?\nYou can read a book by yourself\, but when you read something thought-provoking or moving\, it’s natural to want to discuss it with someone else. This will be an exciting opportunity to connect with other book lovers from different cultural backgrounds\, find new and interesting books\, authors\, or themes\, and develop a richer understanding of Japan that you wouldn’t gain from reading alone! \n  \n\nWHERE YOU CAN FIND THE BOOK?\nNISHI Kanako’s short story VIO and the author’s essays On Beauty\, Sexual Violence\, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Merry Christmas are available online for free. \n  \n\n VIO\n\nI had an odd feeling as I regarded Yō\, who knew things about me that I hadn’t known. \n\nFiction written by NISHI Kanako\nTranslated by Allison Markin Powell\nGranta.com\, 2020 \nVIO is originally published in Japanese in the June 2019 issue of “Subaru”. The work has been translated into English by Allison Markin Powell as part of Granta’s 20 for 2020 series\, one of twenty timely and exciting new works from the Japanese published at Granta.com. \nRead Here \n\nOn Beauty\, Sexual Violence\, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye\nMorrison neither consoled me as a victim\, nor condemned me as the perpetrator. \nEssay written by NISHI Kanako\nTranslated by Allison Markin Powell\nLiterary Hub\, 2020 \nRead Here \n\nMerry Christmas\nAfter all\, our bodies too are frameworks in and of themselves. We cannot escape these boundaries.\nBut we can make their edges softer. For the sake of others\, we can change shape\, and draw closer to one another \nEssay written by NISHI Kanako\nTranslated by Allison Markin Powell\nFifty Storms\, 2015 \nRead Here  \n*The Japanese version is available on NISHI Kanako Official Website. \n  \n\nLEARN MORE ABOUT NISHI KANAKO\nBurn (燃やす)\n\nThere was something running from my eyes\, but it definitely wasn’t tears.\nSomehow\, they didn’t deserve to be called tears.\nWhatever it was\, they were stickier than tears\, and gave off a strong smell.\nAnd anyway\, I certainly wasn’t crying. \nFiction written by NISHI Kanako\nTranslated by Allison Markin Powell\nGrove Atlantic\, 2018 \nBurn (the English version) is published by Grove Atlantic in 2018 in Freeman’s: Power\, the fifth issue of an anthology selected by literary critic John Freeman.  \n*The digital copy is available for circulation on Japan Foundation’s digital library (JF OverDrive). To get a new JFT library card or to renew your existing card\, please follow the instructions found here. \nRead Here   \n  \n「燃やす」 (the Japanese version) is published by Chikuma Shobo as part of NISHI Kanako’s anthology 『おまじない』 in 2021. \n*The digital copy of  『おまじない』is available for circulation on Japan Foundation’s digital library (JF OverDrive). To get a new JFT library card or to renew your existing card\, please follow the instructions found here. \nRead Here   \n  \n\n \nJFNY Literary Series: Kanako Nishi x Allison Markin Powell\n \nJFNY Literary Series invites notable writers in Japanese literature and their translators to discuss their work\, speak on the art of translation\, and touch upon the current literary scene in Japan. \nThis session on April 21\, 2021 featured Kanako Nishi and her translator Allison Markin Powell\, moderated by wrtier Kyoko Nakajima. Ginny Tapley Takemori from the collective Strong Women\, Soft Power and interpreter Bethan Jones also joined the session.  \nWatch Here\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n© Shingo Wakagi \nNISHI Kanako (1977–) was born in Tehran\, Iran\, where her family had relocated for her father’s job. She subsequently lived in Japan for several years before moving with her family to Cairo\, Egypt\, where she spent four of her elementary school years. The male protagonist’s early life in her novel Saraba! (So Long!) roughly parallels her own. At 25 she began writing fiction\, and made her literary debut in 2004 with the short story collection Aoi (Blue). In 2006 she won the Oda Sakunosuke Prize for her novel Tsūtenkaku (Tower to Heaven)\, and in 2012 she received the Kawai Hayao Prize for the novel Fukuwarai (Funny Face). Her monumental 2014 novel Saraba!\, in which the action roves across all of the places where she has lived\, from Iran to Egypt and Osaka to Tokyo\, garnered her the prestigious Naoki Prize. Nishi’s forthright portrayals of the alienation experienced by characters with strong personalities have gained her a wide following\, especially among young readers. She is also known as an avid fan of professional wrestling. \n  \nABOUT THE TRANSLATOR\nAllison Markin Powell has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA\, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai\, Kanako Nishi\, and Kaoru Takamura. She was the co-organizer and co-host of the Translating the Future conference\, served as co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee and currently represents the committee on PEN’s Board of Trustees\, and as part of the collective\, Strong Women\, Soft Power\, is curating JFNY’s online literary series. \n  \n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nWriter Kris Kosaka moved to Japan in 1996 to accept a position teaching high school English at an international school. She fell in love with the country and soon met her future husband\, Makoto. They made their home in Kamakura\, where Kris continued teaching and writing while raising their two children. Although temporarily in Tampa\, FL (her hometown) while their daughter completes her high school education in the States\, Kris’s heart is in Japan. In her spare time\, Kris enjoys reading and running. Kris is a frequent contributor to The Japan Times\, and a regular columnist for their Books pages. \n  \n\n \nRelated Programming:\nTranscending Borders: Author NISHI Kanako in conversation with Dr. Christina Laffin \nBeloved Japanese author NISHI Kanako has written more than twenty novels\, essay and short story collections\, and children’s books. Her barrier-breaking works cross genres\, genders\, classes\, regions\, nations\, languages\, and media. In 2019\, Ms. Nishi moved to Vancouver\, Canada\, and stuck up a friendship with Canadian scholar of premodern Japanese literature Dr. Christina Laffin. In this JFT-exclusive interview\, Dr. Laffin sits down with Ms. Nishi to chat about the transnational themes behind Ms. Nishi’s works\, her impressions of Canada after living here the last three years\, and her thoughts on female authorship in Japan’s literary community. Available to watch from March 10 to 19. Registered viewers will have an opportunity to ask Ms. Nishi a question and receive a response. Register here. \n \n \nOnline Film Screening: Makuko • まく子 \nFriday\, March 17\, 5:59PM – Sunday\, March 19\, 11:59PM (ET) \nDirected by TSURUOKA Keiko • 2019 • Drama / Sci-Fi / Coming-of-Age • 108 min.\nPresented in Japanese with English subtitles • Trailer \nAdapted from the novel of the same name written by beloved Japanese author NISHI Kanako. \nFifth-grader Satoshi (YAMAZAKI Hikaru) is distressed by his changing body and feels repelled by his womanizing father (KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi). Then\, Satoshi gradually finds himself drawn to Kozue (Ninon)\, a mysterious transfer student who won’t leave his side. Kozue and her mother start living in the guesthouse of Satoshi’s family inn and soon Kozue confides in Satoshi an unbelievable secret: She came from another planet!  \n  \n\nPrevious Book Clubs\n  \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Temple Alley Summer by KASHIWABA Sachiko – September 15\, 2022 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Manga – June 15\, 2022 \n  \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Bring Your Own Book – April 13\, 2022 \n  \n\nJFT Book Club Online: The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura– February 9\, 2022 \n\nJFT Book Club Online:Colorful by Eto Mori– November 10\, 2021 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami – August 12\, 2021 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Manga – June 10\, 2021 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Bring Your Own Book – April 8\, 2021 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: The Memory Police – February 11\, 2021 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Breasts and Egg – November 5\, 2020 \n\nJFT Book Club Online: Travel Japan – August 20\, 2020 \n\nJFT Book Club Online – June 11\, 2020 \n\nMemoirs of a Polar Bear – February 20\, 2020 \n\nThe Little House – December 12\, 2019 \n\nMystery Book Club – October 10\, 2019 \n\nMovies and Books – August 8\, 2019 \n\n \nBooks and Tea – June 6\, 2019
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LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Library
ORGANIZER;CN="The Japan Foundation%2C Toronto Library":MAILTO:library_jftoronto@jpf.go.jp
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SUMMARY:Online Nihongo Salon (27)
DESCRIPTION:THE JAPAN FOUNDATION\, TORONTO\nONLINE NIHONGO SALON\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto is hosting a Nihongo Salon with the aim of providing a place where advanced Japanese learners (including Japanese language teachers) in Canada who would like to maintain Japanese language proficiency can speak Japanese regularly. The contents can be used for not only improving your Japanese proficiency but also in Japanese classes if you teach Japanese. We hope that these gatherings can be an opportunity for participants to regularly speak Japanese and to network with each other. \n27th Online Nihongo Salon\nDate and time: Wednesday\, February 8\, 2023   8:00 pm – 8:40 pm (Eastern Time)\nTopic: Let’s play Spyfall in Japanese! \nExpected Participants: \n\nJapanese language teachers in Canada who would like to maintain Japanese language proficiency\, and who did not complete their compulsory education (elementary and junior high school\, 9 years) in Japan\nLearners who have graduated from Level 5 of the JFT Online MARUGOTO Japanese Language Course or equivalent\n\nLanguage: Japanese \n【Contact】Noriko Saito                    Noriko_Saito@jpf.go.jp \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/online-nihongo-salon-27/
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CATEGORIES:Teachers’ Workshops
ORGANIZER;CN="The Japan Foundation%2C Toronto":MAILTO:info_jftoronto@jpf.go.jp
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230222T200000
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SUMMARY:Online Workshop for Teachers 15
DESCRIPTION:JFTオンライン日本語教師研修15\nFormative Assessmentについて考えよう１\n―理解を確認する方法―\nFormative Assessment（形成的評価）は、学習者の理解を確認し、フィードバックを与える作業のことで、これらの作業を通じ、学習者の学習を促進し、サポートすることができます。本研修では、フィードバックの方法や、授業に取り入れやすい、理解を確認する方法に焦点をあて、グループディスカッションでの実践共有、自身の授業の振り返りを通して、Formative Assessmentについて考えます。 \nご参加をご希望の方は本ページ下段よりお申し込みください。 \n日時：2023年2月22日（水）\n　6:00pm ～ 7:30pm（山岳部標準時）　8:00pm ～ 9:30pm（東部標準時）\n　申込締切：2月21日（火） \n対象者：カナダ在住の日本語教師で、以下に同意される方（先着30名まで）\n※事前課題ができる人\n※グループワーク中はカメラオンで参加できる人（聴講不可）\n※作業があるため、PCで参加できる人（スマホ、タブレットでの参加は不可）\n※Formative Assessmentについての基本的な内容について知りたい方、復習したい方向けです。 \n使用言語：日本語 \n研修スケジュール：内容は変更になる場合がございますので、予めご了承ください。 \n\n事前アンケート結果共有\n効果的なフィードバックについて\nグループディスカッション1（実践共有）\n理解確認方法のアイディア紹介\nグループディスカッション2（自身の授業の振り返り）\nまとめと振り返り\n\n講師：吉川　景子（国際交流基金派遣日本語上級専門家、アルバータ州教育省日本語教育アドバイザー） \nお問い合わせ先：齋藤典子　Noriko_Saito@jpf.go.jp　サルマ・サーレ　Salma_Saleh@jpf.go.jp \n 
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