2002 Japanese Summer Institute

The UH Manoa National Resource Center for East Asia, in conjunction with the National Foreign Language Resource Center at UH Manoa, conducted a two-week workshop on "Pragmatics in the JFL Classroom: Performance-based Applications" from July 22 to August 2, 2002.

Over the past decade, teachers and researchers alike have increasingly recognized the central role of pragmatics in language learning, and the receptiveness of learners at all levels to the explicit instruction of pragmatic aspects of the target language. Led by workshop coordinators Dina R. Yoshimi and Tomoko Iwai, both of the EALL Department, participants were introduced to a wide range of pragmatic phenomena in Japanese spoken discourse, and to explanations, activities, materials, and approaches.

Participants came from a wide variety of institutions, including: University of Texas at Austin, Owego Apalachin Middle School, Portland Community College, University of Iowa, University of Florida, Stanford University, La Pietra Hawai'i School for Girls, Kaimuki Community School for Adults, Mount Holyoke College, Leeward Community College, University of Washington, Ohio University, North Eugene High School, Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco), Wellesley College, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Workshop coordinators Tomoko Iwai (front, in blue) and Dina Yoshimi (front center) with Summer Insititute participants.

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