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• Higher Education
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• Class Acts
• Other Resources

Welcome to the London Language Centre Teaching Resources page!

Most of the resources listed below have been created by JFLLC Japanese language advisors. For the resources where this is not the case the resource creator’s name is given. You can download them and use them instantly with your class, or adjust them to your needs.

The JFLLC welcomes your feedback on the resources featured on the website. Please email your comments to info.language@jpf.org.uk. Please note we cannot guarantee the quality of resources made by other creators. If you would like to share your own teaching ideas with members of the Japanese teaching community in the UK please click here.

The London Language Centre Advisory Teachers
The London Language Centre team of advisory teachers are working to support you with their extensive experience of teaching Japanese. They will be happy to advise you on any issues from selecting appropriate resources for your course to examination related queries.

You can make an appointment to visit them at the Centre by emailing info.language@jpf.org.uk.

SCRIPT

BASIC

Click here for a selection of worksheets which can be used for WJEC and GCSE (including numbers, colours and verbs).

Click here to download resources and a scheme of work made by Tom Lockley of Meadowhead School for his classes with Year 9 students. This downloads as a zip file (12MB). You will need ActiveSoftware to open the ActivStudio files. If you do not already have this, you can download this free Flipchart Viewer.

PRIMARY

Extensive research into the Primary languages field in general and Japanese provision in particular provided the foundation for the Ready Steady NihonGO! Primary Japanese Course, a unique scheme of work for teaching Japanese at KS2, produced by the Japan Foundation London Language Centre (JFLLC) and Japan21. The scheme comprises 10 45 minute lessons designed to be delivered by a Japanese native speaker teacher working with the class teacher. Each lesson is clearly structured, with comprehensive teachers' notes, National Curriculum Links and a set of accompanying Culture Notes. The course has been hugely popular during two successful trial periods with teachers and pupils alike who enjoyed the experience of working with an unusual language.
Ready Steady NihonGO! is available to use online from the Japan21 website.
The CD version will be available on 1 March 2007. See the Japan21 website for more information and to order your copy.

GCSE

AS

• New Resources for A Levels
  A Japan Foundation compiled list of useful publications for teaching AS and A2, which are all available from our library.
  
  
• AS kanji list (PDF)
  AS kanji list (Excel)
  Created by Tadashi Sakai, Wolverhampton Girls' High School
  
  
• Tanabata Kamishibai and Resources
  Introduction to Tanabata for Teachers 
  Tanabata Script GCE
  Vocabulary List GCE
  Occupation List
  GCE Tanabata Worksheet
  Tanzaku Strips
  Tanabata Melody and Lyrics

Click here for information about the Exam

A2

• New Resources for A Levels
  A Japan Foundation compiled list of useful publications for teaching AS and A2, which are all available from our library.
  
  
• A2 kanji list
  Created by Tadashi Sakai, Wolverhampton Girls' High School

Click here for information about the Exam

Higher Education

Comparative analysis between the main textbooks used in the early stages of Japanese courses at UK Universities and GCSE/AS/A2 level syllabi.
The main purpose of these information sheets are for university techers to get to know what their students with secondary Japanese actually studied prior to entry to university. The following three textbooks are currently the most frequently used at the initial stages of university level Japanese courses in the UK:

•Japanese for Busy People (15 institutions, many of them are elective courses)

•Minna no Nihongo (14 institutions, many of them are degree courses)

•Genki (6 institutions)

Basic Kanji Book is also popular as supplementary material for kanji study.

Apart from 'Basic Kanji Book', the information sheets consist of 2 parts; Kanji and Grammar. JLPT stands for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

In contrast to the Kanji sections, it is impossible to to make judgements of some of the grammar structures, since the styles of classification vary according to the textbooks.

• Basic Kanji Book
• Genki (1) Kanji
• Genki (2) Grammar
• Japanese for Busy People (1) Kanji
• Japanese for Busy People (2) Grammar
• Minna no Nihongo (1) Kanji
• Minna no Nihongo (2) Grammar
• Kanji Numbers

Teachers Pages in Mado newsletters

Click here to download Mado newsletters, including teachers’ pages.

Supplementary information for Mado newsletters

Class Acts

This excellent video created for Japan 2001 documents success stories from the UK Japanese classroom and demonstrates best practice in teaching Japanese in the UK secondary sector.

Feedback on Class Acts ...

• Very useful to improve teaching and learning and to lobby for more support for the language."
• One of the best tools for professional development I have ever seen."
• We needed Class Acts - wonderful in content and timing."

Eligibility

If you are teaching at a school and are thinking of offering Japanese you may be eligible to receive a free copy of Class Acts. For more information please email info.language@jpf.org.uk

Other Resources

• Erin's Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese

DVD teaching material for young people.
Available in the Japan Foundation library, or to buy from JP-Books UK Ltd (click here for more information on Japanese book shops).