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Japanese Studies Association of Australia
 

 September 2015

CONFERENCES

American Association of Teachers of Japanese
Annual Spring Conference 2016

The 2016 Annual Spring Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) will be held in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday, March 31, 2016, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels in the following areas/categories: (1) pedagogy, (2) linguistics, (3) literature, (4) second language acquisition, or (5) topics related to AATJ's special interest groups. The deadline for submitting proposals online is October 30, 2015.

For complete information and to submit a proposal, go to http://www.aatj.org/conferences-spring


The Asian Studies Conference Japan 2016

The Executive Committee of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan. The conference will be held at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo on Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, 2016. All presentations are to be delivered in English.

  

The deadline for proposals is October 15. Results will be announced by late December.

  

Please visit the ASCJ website for details:

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/

Proposals may be submitted online beginning on September 1, 2015. The online application forms are available on the ASCJ website:

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/%7Eascj/forms/index.html  

 

JOURNAL

New Voices in Japanese Studies: Call for Papers 

Deadline: October 26, 2015

New Voices in Japanese Studies (formerly New Voices) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal for emerging local researchers, published by The Japan Foundation, Sydney. The call for papers is open to:

  •  Honours students/graduates in or from Australia or New Zealand
  •  Masters students/graduates in or from Australia or New Zealand
  •   PhD candidates in or from Australia or New Zealand
  •   Recent PhD graduates in or from Australia or New Zealand
  •   Participants of the JSAA Graduate Workshop 2015, held at LaTrobe University
  •   Participants of the Japanese Studies Graduate Workshop 2014 & 2015, held at Australian National University
Papers can be from any discipline, provided the research focus in on Japan.

For further information, please see http://newvoices.org.au/
 


DATABASE

Learner-Corpus Study of Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language

National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics has launched a Learner corpus, SLAJ. Language and linguistics researchers are encouraged to take advantage of this free corpus:

国立国語研究所が学習者コーパスを公開しました。日本語の習得研究に自由に使えます。

 学習者コーパスに基づく第二言語としての日本語の習得研究
 SLAJ(Learner-corpus Study of Acquisition of Japanese As a Second Language)

 

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