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OverviewJoint ResearchResearch ResourcesTraining and Capacity Building29Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)Intensive Language CoursesThe Institute has offered intensive courses on various Asian and African languages since 1967.The purposes of Intensive Language Courses are:- to provide training of basic language skills to those who pursue Asian and African studies.- to offer specialized knowledge of language(s) and of linguistic research that is essential both to eld research as well as to philological research.- to improve basic learning environment of minor languages, for which materials are undeveloped, by compiling learning materials and improving them through the courses.Each course is taught by a team of Japanese specialists and native teachers. To accomplish the above purposes, a committee consisting ILCAA offers various workshops on eld linguistics, aimed especially at graduate and post-graduate students and junior scholars.Workshops offered are mostly on documentation and description of underdocumented languages. These courses are designed to complement the graduate training in linguistics offered at universities in Japan.There are three series of workshops under Field Linguistics Workshops:Documentary Linguistics WorkshopThis Workshop aims to provide methodological and technical training in various aspects of language documentation research. This Workshop series is run in collaboration with the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS, University of London.of the instructors, ILCAA staff, and outside experts of language education discuss on teaching methods and execution plans.Moreover, the committee evaluates each course after the courses have taken place.Courses given at Osaka are conducted in cooperation with Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University. Students are selected from applicants nationwide for each course. After successful completion of the course, the students receive certificates from the Director of the Institute. For a list of courses taught and the textbooks developed, visit the websitehttp://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/training/ilc/Grammatical Studies WorkshopsWorkshops on various grammatical topics.Technical WorkshopsWorkshops on technical issues concerning field linguistics, such as managing and processing linguistic data.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/training/eldling-ws/Field Linguistics Workshops

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