Abstract
This commentary tries to address how we can foster diversity and inclusion among peers and potential peers in Japanese-language education based on my experience with providing pedagogical linguistics training to graduate students at The Ohio State University. Pedagogical linguistics training aims to instill future Japanese-language instructors with the knowledge of how the Japanese language works and to foster their ability to incorporate such knowledge into teaching. I would like to propose that pedagogical linguistics training can be a powerful tool to help individual teachers achieve their potential regardless of their prior experiences and backgrounds. I will discuss 1) the importance of pedagogical linguistics training and how it empowers future Japanese-language; and 2) issues in pedagogical linguistics training.
Highlights
How can we foster diversity and inclusion among peers and potential peers in Japanese language education? This commentary tries to address this question based on my experience with providing pedagogical linguistics training to graduate students at The Ohio State University
To treat the rules and analyses of standard Japanese in a sensible manner, it will be important to train future teachers to understand the social context that surrounds standard Japanese and what the rules and analyses used in pedagogical linguistics training enable learners to accomplish
Just as we analyze the linguistic rules of standard Japanese, we can examine what information enables Japanese-language learners to understand dialects, such as the ne in the Kyūshū dialect
Summary
I see that while native speakers of Japanese can catch English-speaking learners of Japanese placing high pitch on the penultimate mora, as in yamaMOto or waTAshi, they do not always know why English-speaking learners pronounce these words this way. Pedagogical linguistics training fosters sound knowledge of how Japanese language works, and creates a learning space in which individuals with different experiences and backgrounds can think about how to help students learn Japanese better together.
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