JPN - Japanese

On-Line Placement Test

Revision of on-line testing software and development of placement test for Japanese.

Curricular Materials for Advanced Japanese

Development of materials dealing with the connection between Seicho Matsumotoâ€™s novel Zero no shooten (A Zero Focus, 1973), and its film version by Tatsuichi Takamori (1990).

Online Listening Comprehension

Development of online listening comprehension exercises for Lessons 17-24 of Japanese: The SPoken Language.

Kanji CD-ROM Planning

A pilot project for the development of a kanji tutoring system. The project director is no longer at MIT.

Supplementary Materials for Third-Year Conversational Japanese

Development of materials to supplement An Introduction to Advanced Spoken Japanese (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies): materials for situational practice; listening comprehension practice; and grammar worksheets with keys.

Videotapes on Passive and Causative Constructions

Production of two videotapes for learning passive and causative forms in Japanese under the direction of K. Ujie when he was in the Japanese Program at Harvard.

Materials for Teaching Business Japanese

Development of six lessons on the fundamentals of reading for business Japanese by Masakazu Iino: How to Read Economic Indicators; About Money Lending; On TRade Problems; About Labor Problems; Japanese-American Relations; Women in the Japanese Workplace. The unedited readings are intended for students at the intermediate-high to advanced level.

Video-Cued Structural Drills for Japanese

Production of videotapes on the differences between transitive and intransitive verbs and on permissive causatives and yari/morai (giving and reeiving). With Ken`ichi Ujie of Washington and Lee University.

Japanese CALL Materials

Creation of interactive tasks to suuplement the language curriculum, appliation of task to the Voice Board system, and data collection of multimodeal discourse analysis.

Kanji Assistant

A pilot project for the development of a kanji tutoring system. The project director is no longer at MIT.