The Japan Foundation, Sydney: AUDIO-VISUAL JAPANESE LANGUAGE RESOURCE

"Art Speaks Japanese. 日本の美術"

Art Speaks Japanese was launched at the Art Gallery on the 13th February 2008 by Associate Professor Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of NSW and Sally Shimada, Japanese Language Consultant, NSW Department of Education and Training. To read their speeches, please click on the respective names above.

Classroom ideas　（Sensei's pages: Summer 2008）

This new resource kit for Japanese language learners introduces 16 significant artworks from the Art Gallery of NSW Japanese collection, and draws on the expertise in Japanese language of the Japan Foundation, Sydney, and in arts education of the Art Gallery of NSW.

	64 pages of tasks for Years 4-12
	Learning Japanese as a Foreign /native language
	16 colour photo panels of art works
	Authentic art works from early to modern eras
	Created by Japanese language and art experts
	Listening CD by professional native speakers
	Comprehensible teaching notes

Why art?

Artworks are an authentic expression of the thoughts,feelings and creativity of individual Japanese.
They can provide unlimited avenues for the languagestudent to interact with these original creative impulses leading to deeper cultural understanding.

Promotes ILTL and develops thinking skills

This resource supports individual learning by providing diverse experiences of language and culture, and by asking questions that encourage learners to seek their own answers. The tasks designed for this resource involve noticing, comparing, reflecting and interacting, which are essential processes in the ILTL approach. The tasks in this resource were designed to develop students’ thinking skills, from comprehension skills to higher order analytical and interpretive skills, and critical thinking.

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