The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Japanese Language and Methodology of Teaching Japanese Language” in 2019

Abstract

A brief report on the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Japanese language and methods of teaching Japanese language”, which was held on 25 October 2019 at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (ISAA). Since 1994, ISAA hosts annual Japanese language teaching conferences. At the conferences, teachers discuss the problems of teaching Japanese in a particular country, city, university, as well as various methodological, linguistic, and linguocultural issues. The organizers of this conference are the Association of teachers of the Japanese language of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries, ISAA, and the Japan Foundation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. These conferences are of great importance for the enhancing of methodological and professional level of Japanese language teachers. They are especially important for young teachers, as they get the opportunity to hear the presentations on various issues of methods of teaching the Japanese language and presentations on linguistics and linguoculturology. In addition, some presentations are made in Japanese, which increases the level of language proficiency of teachers. After the conference, the proceedings are published as a collection of papers.