The world-wide growth in demand for Japanese throughout the world has led to rapid developments in Japanese language teaching. This volume examines these developments and their implications for the future in a series of case studies.

Authored by Kaiser, Stefan

Introduction, Stefan Kaiser; Chapter 1 Developing a Japanese language learning aptitude test, ?tsubo Kazuo; Chapter 2 Designing materials for Business Japanese: the SOAS/DTI Diploma Course, Y?z? Okazaki, Junkichi Suzuki; Chapter 3 An integrated approach to placement in Japan, Stefan Kaiser, Toshiomi Baba; Chapter 4 Teaching Japanese using Apple Macintosh and Hypercard, Richard Harrison; Chapter 5 The potential of CASTEL/J: a database-oriented approach to CALL, Stefan Kaiser; Chapter 6 The new GCSE Japanese: syllabus and materials, Mary-Grace Browning; Chapter 7 Teaching Japanese in Derbyshire: an area-based approach, Marianne Jones; Chapter 8 The importance of design to an English-Japanese learner's dictionary for English-speaking users; Chapter 9 Course design for autonomous learning, Tanaka Nozomi;