Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching

Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku is Professor in the School of Global Policy & Strategy at University of California San Diego, USA.Fumiko Nazikian is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at Columbia University, USA.Jisuk Park is Assistant Professor of Japanese language at University of Toronto, Canada.

• 1 Social Networking Approach: Language Education for Global CitizenshipYasu-Hiko Tohsaku2 Widening a Global View Through Connecting With Multicultural SpeakersFumiko Nazikian3 Imagining an Alternative: "What if?" Project – Novice to Intermediate levelJisuk Park4 Who Are We? Rediscovering and Reconstructing Our Identities Through Personal Storytelling, Using the SNA ApproachAsami Tsuda5 Developing JFL Learners’ Reading and Writing Skills with the SNAYuki Matsuda6 "Ikumen" Project in the San Diego Japanese CommunityIzumi Takeda7 Learning Japanese Through ConnectionCao Le Dung Chi8 Building Learning Communities Through a Character Bento ProjectJunko Tokuda Simpson9 Connecting With Local Japanese Communities: Community Involvement Projects and the SNATomoko Shibata and Yoko Katagiri