●❽●❼IWIFWIASOTIWIntroduction Information■Ⅰ▶■Ⅲ●❷●❸・●❻・●❿Education■Ⅰ▶■ⅡGO! GO! NIHON ●❹・●❺●●⓫URL▶https://daigakushinbun.com/ E-mail▶info@daigakushinbun.com［Animation］［Culinary/Confectionery］［Automobile］INCORPORATING No.13, 2023 [Spring Special Issue]High School Reportvol.13Hawaii Edition―What is your message to high school students in Hawaii who are considering studying in Japan?hen you master Japanese in Hawaii, your range of work suddenly expands. It's a shortcut to becoming an international person because it opens up future options and makes it easier to study in Japan. If you want to go to Japan, just go for it. One way to do this is to attend a study abroad fair fi rst. You can learn useful information. Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High SchoolINDEXIn Hawaii, Japanese culture and language are very popular.Her experience studying in England while studying at a university in Japan taught her how wonderful it was to learn a foreign language, says Ms. Kumi Kojima. With a desire to encourage students to have a broader perspective by having fun teaching foreign languages, she currently teaches Japanese at Pearl City High School (Hawaii, USA). We asked Ms. Kojima about her current job, her challenges, and her memories of college.―Tell us about your career so far.was born and raised in Shizuoka Prefecture and entered the School of Education at Shizuoka University in Shizuoka City. In order to learn English, I went to study in England in my junior year in college and traveled around Europe meeting people from different countries. Studying English broadened my horizons and I felt like I had wings. I decided to become an English teacher because I wanted to convey the joy of learning English. After college, I fulfilled my dream and taught English to students at a Japanese high school.―How did you end up working in Hawaii?hile working at a high school in Japan, I met my husband, who was also working at the same prefecture as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT), and we married. That's when I retired and moved to Hawaii. There was a demand for Japanese education in Hawaii and I couldn't forget the fun of teaching a foreign language, so I decided to become a Japanese teacher.―Tell us about your current job.―What did you learn in order to be a Japanese teacher?teach Japanese to students at Pearl City High School. Starting with hiragana, I teach self-introduction, polite language, history and culture. There are quite a few students who are interested in Japanese because of manga.irst, I enrolled at Hawaii Pacific University and Graduate School (Hawaii, USA), aiming to obtain a Japanese teaching certificate. Then I went to an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, and a college to do volunteer work and work part-time. By learning how students' feelings change when the environment changes from middle school to high school and from high school to college, I have been able to devise ways of dealing with students and the teaching pace.e also focused on networking. My goal was not only to teach Japanese but also to become a teacher who could do a lot, so I valued meeting diverse people. I once got to know someone who worked for an airline company and had them come to school. I'm still trying to expand my network and give it back to my students.―What is the attraction of your job?find it very rewarding when students report cheerfully that they have become able to read manga and sing popular songs in Japan. I am also glad that more and more students want to study in Japan.nother attraction of this job is that I can see the growth of students up close over four years. Seeing students who were nervous because they didn't even understand the hiragana syllabary, gradually gaining confidence and speaking their own opinions in Japanese, makes me want to work hard, too.―Please tell us the tough part of your job.ometimes students consult me about their problems outside of class. I use English for such occasions, but I am often aware of the language barrier. The more sensitive the topic, the more careful I am to make sure that I have not hurt the students with the wrong expression and that Written in two languages［Ms. Nae Ogawa］●Profi leBorn in 1977 in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from high school in 1996, she entered Shizuoka University. She studied English education in the Faculty of Education, and took the opportunity to study in England while still in school to become an English teacher. After graduation, she worked as an English teacher at a Japanese high school. Upon her marriage, she immigrated to Hawaii and entered Hawaii Pacifi c University Graduate School, and graduated in 2007. Currently working as a Japanese language teacher at Pearl City High School in Hawaii.what I want to convey has been communicated properly. This is the kind of communication we have on a daily basis. By building a relationship of trust, I would like them to understand what I'm trying to say.―We heard that Pearl City High School has a lot of interaction with Japanese schools.nline exchange meetings are held with the Ibaraki Prefectural Mito Commercial High School (Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture) and the Ogose Municipal Ogose Junior High School (Iruma, Saitama Prefecture). Although the time is limited to 30 minutes, taking into account the time difference, the students in Hawaii use Japanese and the students in Japan use English to introduce themselves and ask each other “I want to tell my students that Japanese is fun to learnˮ said Kumi Kojima (center).questions about school life.―How did the students react after the interaction session?hey were nervous at fi rst, but when they were done, we heard “it was shortˮ and “want to do it again.ˮ It was easy to connect online and seemed to be a good experience to talk to Japanese people of the same generation. Many students continue to interact with each other through social media. Some students are happy to report that they received a birthday message or that they enjoyed playing online games together.―What are your goals for the future?t would be wonderful if we could make Japanese education more fun. My current dream is to have many students learn Japanese and go to Japan. In addition to language, I would like to take Japanese culture, including Bon-Odori dance, Japanese cuisine, tea ceremony, flower arrangement and calligraphy, and make it a fun class. I would be happy if more students continue to learn Japanese after graduation.●●⓬・●⓭・●⓮・●⓯Special InterviewCool JapanKumi KojimaALL THE NEWS & TOPICS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSThe biggest motivation is that my students enjoy Japanese進路新聞The Shinro Shimbun
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