RESEARCH

Executive Summary of RSN Project
In early 2002, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) issued the Green Paper which was aimed to set the path for improving Britain’s performance at languages over the next decade and beyond. One of the ambitions spelled out in the Paper was a proposal to make languages an entitlement for all Primary school children by 2012....
Japan 21
This overview aims to present a snapshot of the state of Japanese studies in United Kingdon primary schools in 2003. Its scope includes areas of reasonable certainty, for example the position of Japan within the primary curriculum in different parts of the UK, as well as issues about which it is hard to be definitive, for example the precise number of schools teaching about Japan....

University of Nottingham
·Report on Primary Japanese Teaching & Outreach
The teaching of Japanese as a foreign language in the UK is currently an area of rapid growth. At a time when most foreign languages are in decline in schools, Japanese is seeing a resurgence of interest. The number of schools offering Japanese is increasing, and this has been made possible largely due to the number of teachers of Japanese being trained by the University of Nottingham.....
·Curriculum Models for Modern Foreign Language Learning in Use in UK Primary Schools
Two good reference points to models in general terms can be found at http://www.cilt.org.uk/primary/curricular.htm (which also includes some sample costings of models) and http://www.cilt.org.uk/primary/index.htm report These documents cannot give a complete picture of primary language activity in England, but provide a sufficiently large sample to be representative. The Scottish Primary Programme 2000 evaluation, accessible at http://www.cilt.org.uk/research/aap.htm offers a view of attainment by primary beginners at two points, the end of primary education and two years later, and forms a substantial investigation into the effects of a broad and well-funded programme. This report does not seek to repeat the material contained in the above sources, but to offer some synthesis, some findings from the author's own experience of working with primary foreign language schemes and some suggestions for Japanese specific issues...

Over the last fifty years the relationship between Australia and Japan has gone from strength to strength. Japan is Australia’s largest trading partner and the third largest source of direct investment in the country. Over the years, the Australian-Japanese economic partnership has blossomed to become a multifaceted relationship including a rich cultural exchange involving scholars, teachers, students, researchers, artists, athletes, journalists, and others. At the same time, Australia’s identity has evolved from one accepting the ‘White Australia Policy’ to one where Australia’s multicultural society is acknowledged and celebrated...
·Appendix1 Japanese K–6 Syllabus – New South Wales


·Appendix2 Primary Japanese Teaching Questionnaire

·Appendix3 Victorian LOTE Curriculum and Standards Framework II

·Appendix4 Primary Japanese Resources