We live in a multilingual and multicultural society and the society needs people with multilingual and multicultural knowledge and abilities. The foreign language education, whatever it is, including English or Japaness education, has to meet the need...
We live in a multilingual and multicultural society and the society needs people with multilingual and multicultural knowledge and abilities. The foreign language education, whatever it is, including English or Japaness education, has to meet the needs and establish a communication base for mutual understanding.
To establish such multilingual and multicultural communication base in East Asia, it is most desirable to share East Asian languages (Taiwaness, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.) in common in addition to English.
The Simultaneous Multilingual and Multicultural learning Supporty ahs been proposed to this end. Its theory, practice and movement will be introduced in the talk.