30The experience and expertise accumulated through research activities of ILCAA are mobilized to provide unique training opportunities in order to cultivate new generations of researchers and stimulate new development of research activities. Many of these training activities are unique to ILCAA as they are difficult to provide in typical graduate programs. The training activities at ILCAA can be grouped into the following three categories:SeminarsILCAA has a long history of offering intensive courses on less commonly taught languages of Asia and Africa, as well as various types of seminars, workshops and lectures on particular geographic areas or research questions.- Intensive Language Courses, Field Linguistics Workshops, Seminars on the Middle East and Islamic Studies, etc.Graduate Courses and Postdoctoral FellowshipsILCAA’s Research Staff take part in teaching the graduate courses of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; graduate students can choose one of them as their supervisor and the committee chairperson for their doctoral thesis. ILCAA also offers various opportunities for postdoctoral students.Junior Scholars NetworkThrough building and supporting academic networks and communities, ILCAA plays a central role in connecting junior scholars who specialize in studies of languages, cultures, and history of Asia and Africa, but who are afliated with different institutions scattered across Japan.- Fieldnet, Fieldling, etc.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/training/Research and Professional Training / Capacity BuildingThe 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 to field 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. Intensive Language CoursesTo accomplish the above purposes, a committee consisting 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 may receive certicates from the Director of the Institute. For a list of courses taught and the textbooks developed, visit the following website:http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/training/ilc/
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