The Association of Teachers of Japanese in Oregon The PSU Center for Japanese Studies Invite you to attend a Lecture and Seminar in Japanese with: Dr. Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku Professor of Japanese language and Director of the Japanese Language Programs at The University of California in San Diego Japanese Language Education in the 21st Century Saturday, December 6th, 2014 – 1:15-3:30 pm Portland State University – Smith Memorial Student Union, Rm. 333 Admission is free. To attend please RSVP to Masayuki Itomitsu @ mitomit@linfield.edu Professor Y.-.H. Tohsaku is Professor and Director of the Language Program at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also Director of the Japanese Language Program at UCSD. Professor Tohsaku received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCSD, and his research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Language Assessment. Professor Tohsaku has served as Past President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Executive Board member for National Standards for Foreign Language Education Project, Project Leader for the Japanese Language Education Global Articulation Project (J‐GAP), Project Director for JOINT (Japanese Online Instructional Network For Teachers) and President of Computer Assisted Systems For Teaching & Learning Japanese (CASTEL/J), among many others. Professor Tohsaku's recent publications include Yookoso!: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese 3rd Edition and Yookoso!: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese 3rd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill 2006), 『ドラえもんのどこでも日 本語』(共著) 小学館 2010、『外国語学習のめやす -高等学校の中国語と韓国語 教育からの提言』(共著) 国際文化フォーラム 2012,『ニッポン 3.0 の処方箋』講 談社 2013. Supported by: