| District | Target (Adult/Child) | Venue | Name of the class | Level | The organisation of the class | Content (Kanji, conversation, exam preparation, others) | Date (time, frequency) | Contact (TELEURL) | Class fee | Textbook | Requirement for the teacher | Concept | Payment | Remarks |
| Shinjuku Ward | Child | Okubo Elementary School | Japanese language class for foreign parents and children | Foreign parents and children | Former half: parents and children together; latter half: parents and children separated | 22 classes in total. 440 participants. May 2006 to March 2007. | Organised by Shinjuku Foundation for Culture and International Exchange. Assisted by volunteers. | |||||||
| Shinjuku Ward | Child | Allocation of teachers. 7 teachers for 6 schools (one for each, except for 2 for Shinjuku Junior High School): Totsuka Elementary School, Tsukudo Elementary Sschool, Shinjuku Junior High School, Yotsuya Sixth Elementary School, Ushigonakano Elementary School, Nishi-Waseda Junior High School | Allocation of Japanese language teacher | elementary schools, Junior high schools. | To offer a Japanese language class, or give an educational instruction if required, to transfer students learning in normal classes who have no command of Japanese. | |||||||||
| Shinjuku Ward | Child | Japanese teacher volunteer | elementary schools, Junior high schools. | one-to-one basis | 20 graduate students | To dispatch, upon requrest, graduate students of Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, to teach Japanese on one-to-one basis to those pupils who have finished the basic instruction for Japanese adaptation and help them with adjusting to school life in Japan. | ||||||||
| Shinjuku Ward | Child | Okubo Elementary School (One elementary school) | Organisation of Japanese class | Foreign students enrolled in Ward elementary schools | TEL@03|32050|9506 http://academic2.plala.or.jp/okuboes | To teach Japanese to foreign students enrolled at schools in the wards. | ||||||||
| Shinjuku Ward | Child | Adaptive and educational instruction to foreign and returnee students | English for kindergarten, primary/junior high school students; Chinese; Korean: Thai; Spanish; Tagalog, etc. | one-to-one basis | 1 Japanese language adaptation education; adaptation instruction of Japanese to foreign infants and students. (40 hours for each infant; 50 hours for each pupils; 60 hours for each student + long term instruction for 20 hours) Venue: each kindergarten and primary/junior high school. | 1. To develop an instruction handbook for Japanese language adaptation;
2. To develop instruction handbooks for 'Japanese school life' and 'correspondence
documents to families' written in five languages so that foreign and returnee
infants, pupils, and students enrolled in Ward kindergartens, elementary schools,
and junior high schools can have an adaptation instruction; 3. To dispatch instructers for PTA's,
private interviews, parent-teacher-student meetings, to ensure that the school and parents can exchange ideas. |
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| Shinjuku Ward | Child (to be responsed) | Two classes allocated in Okubo Elementary School | ||||||||||||
| Shinjuku Ward | Adult | 9 classes at 8 places in Shinjuku Ward | Japanese language class | Foreigners at an basic level of Japanese | Small group learning | basic Japanese for daily life | Two terms: April-Octorber, November-March | Shinjuku Multicultural Plaza @ @TEL@03|5291|5171 @http://www.shinjukubunka.or.jp/ tabunka/japanese/index.html |
3,000JPY for each semester where classes are offered weekly. 6,000JPY for each semester where classes are offered twice in a week. | No specific texts; volunteers deal with learners' needs accordingly. | Applicants must have a prior experience in Japanese teaching volunteer or the volunteer training program. | To promote foreigners to live communally with Japanese by encouraging them to acquire basic Japanese skills needed for daily life. | N/A; transportation allowance is provided. | 333 students in 2006 (1st Semester 169; 2nd Semester 164) |
| Shinjuku Ward | Adult | The Shinjuku Multicultural Plaza | Training/brush-up program for Japanese teaching volunteers. | Japanese class volunteer | Lecture (incl. workshops) | Effective teaching of Japanese for daily use. | Training program for Japanese teaching volunteer(4 times annually); brush-up program twice annually) | The Shinjuku Multicultural Plaza @ @TEL@03|5291|5171@http://www.shinjukubunka.or.jp/ tabunka/japanese/index.html |
Training program for volunteers 5,000~10,000JPY (depends on the terms)Brush-up program 500JPY per lecture | Depends on the program | Japanese teaching intellectuals based in local Japanese classes | To offer programs for those working in local Japanese classes for foreigners, or for those who intend to do so. | Payments to lecturers | 537Ό@537 students in 2006 (99 for Japanese Teaching Method; 438 for Brush-Up Program)@ |