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Issues of Japanese language education outside of Japan: In search for the future of Korean Japanese language education

トムソン木下千尋 1

1University of New South Wales, Australia

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This paper considers education of Japanese as a FOREIGN language (JFL), which is practiced in places other than Japan, as opposed to education of Japanese as a SECOND language (JSL) practiced in Japan. It considers some cases of Australian Japanese language education and proposes possible designs for the future of Korean Japanese language education. Although JFL cannot enjoy the abundance of Japanese language of the JSL environment, JFL has ways to thrive by designing its educational environment into Communities of Practice (CoP) in which like-minded learners use Japanese to achieve shared purposes. The underpinning concept of CoP is the socio-cultural approaches to language learning. The socio-cultural approach considers learning as internalization, which happens first external to the learner socially, aided by scaffoldings, then internally within the learner. This concept overtakes the traditional concept of learning as an individual endeavor. CoP is the place where the scaffoldings are offered and internalization is promoted. In an Australian university, its Japanese language program operates as a CoP. The students interact with senior students, Japanese exchange students and teachers, beyond the boundaries of classrooms and courses within the CoP. The community is designed to be a place to engage in various practices in Japanese. By considering such designs of learning environment, Korean Japanese language education will have countless possibilities.

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