Challenges and Strategies for Language
Learning and Teaching from Diverse Cultures.
Date and
Time: Saturday, 21st February 2016 - 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Aichi University Toyohashi Campus (Building 5, Room 541)
The speakers, María José Ramos, Uzma Jabeen and Sigit
Wiyono, are seen here with local member
and teacher, Hiromi Kinoshita.
Discussions about language education in Japan can
be very inward looking, through focusing on challenges
which may seem unique to the country. However, much can be
gained by finding out more about issues in
other language learning environments. On 21st February, we had
the opportunity to discover the situation in three
locations, which are themselves contrasting: Costa Rica,
Indonesia and Pakistan. The speakers were
experienced language educators currently studying here in Aichi,
at Aichi University of Education.
They spoke about the background to language education in their
countries, before talking
about their own individual teaching and learning experiences,
the challenges they have faced and
the strategies they have used to deal with these challenges.
Maria José Ramos
has been working for 5 years for the Costa Rican Public
Ministry of Education in what
can be called low income communities where teaching becomes
the tool to help students improve their current
and future situation.
Uzma
Jabeen has six years of English teaching experience at
junior high, high school and a language institute.
She has taught at different locations in Pakistan’s capital
city, Islamabad.
Sigit Wiyono has been teaching at a private
primary school called Al Hikmah Surabaya for about 10 years.
The school is a religious affiliated school and is situated
in Surabaya, East Java Province.
Our February 2016 meeting was: