A renowned bilingual education researcher, Dr. Fred Genesee of McGill University in Montreal, agreed to share two presentations of about 80 minutes each with Japancasting. On June 12 at Kansai University he spoke on “Content-based Foreign Language Instruction: Models and Methods.” From his Abstract: “Content-based approaches to second language instruction were first introduced in immersion programs but have now been adopted as the preferred approach in foreign language education.” This is the approach of Osaka Jogakuin College. One thing he mentioned in passing was that language is for the purposes of “communication, self-expression, and exploring the world.”
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