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2023-07-15 18:15:30
Virginia López Fredes lives in Comodoro Rivadavia, is a professor of Japan at the San Juan Bosco National University of Patagonia (UNPSJB) and one of those selected to receive this scholarship.
The other selected is a teacher from Rosario, and together with Fredes, they are the only representatives from South America who obtained this recognition.
In an exclusive interview, ADNSUR spoke with Bárbara Kotoucek, Coordinator of the Language Unit of the UNPSJB and the protagonist Virginia López Fredesa scholarship professor to learn more regarding this distinction.
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As they explained, it is a scholarship awarded by the Japan Foundation, which depends on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country. A flagship institution in charge of promoting and disseminating the Japanese language and culture.
“This is a teacher training scholarship, for teachers who have experience in the language. It is for comprehensive teaching methods, we are 33 teachers from all over the world who travel to the Japan Foundation institution for 6 weeks, with classes on Mondays to Friday and to take advantage of the exchange with the teachers and see how to improve the teaching methods”
The Japan Foundation Its objective is to spread culture and language throughout the world and “is interested in those countries that, due to distance or lack of resources, need quality training to be able to spread Japanese culture.”
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languages for all
The Language Unit of the UNPSJB this year has 800 registered in different offers. Japanese is one of the latest additions, but this unit has been working since 2010 with a wide range of traditional languages such as English, German, and Italian. Portuguese, French, Russian and Arabic were added.
This year regarding 20 students are studying in the Japanese course.
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“Those who study the different languages are university students, as well as teaching and non-teaching staff and many people from the community. Young people, adults and older adults. The only requirement is to be over 18 years of age.”
The pandemic represented a before and following, it adapted to virtuality and currently most of the courses taught at the university are virtual.
“People discovered that, comfortably at home, following work with a matecito, they can participate with the same quality and with the same demand as in person,” said Barbara Kotoucek, Coordinator of the Language Unit of the UNPSJB.
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