Intensive Language Courses (ILC)
ILCAA offers intensive language courses of Tok Pisin, Makunduchi, and Nuosu Yi in the summer of 2025.
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About Intensive Language Courses
ILCAA offers intensive language courses every summer inviting specialists and native speakers as instructors. As a short-term intensive program, the courses are intended for beginners pursuing research and studies on Asia and Africa.
This program mainly focuses on languages spoken in Asia and Africa, including minority languages as well as national and official languages. We annually offer two language courses in Tokyo and an additional course is held in Osaka in cooperation with the University of Osaka.
Participation in the courses enables participants not only to acquire language proficiency and knowledge which are indispensable for fieldwork and documentary research but also to learn research methods. Participants are recruited from all over Japan. We have offered courses of 150 languages and a total of 1361 participants have completed the Program. Many of the participants have gone on to pursue careers as specialists in Asia and Africa at universities and other research institutions.
The program is organized by a project team consisting of ILCAA staff, instructors, and the members of the Committee for Language Training including external experts with extensive knowledge of language education. They discuss how the courses should be conducted and evaluated with the aim of providing more effective training. One of the significant characteristics of the intensive language courses is that all instructors develop their own original teaching materials for all courses.
Participants are publicly recruited from all over Japan through research institutions such as universities. Those who completed the training receive a certificate of completion after the review. In addition, since the FY2006, the intensive language courses have been included in the official curricula of both the undergraduate and graduate programs at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Some of the teaching materials used in past courses are available online. You can browse the list here. Printed versions of the materials are not distributed.
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