Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs

* Offers insights and practical steps to address two of the biggest problems educators of LCTL face: garnering and maintaining interest in the language, and providing opportunities to practice with native speakers of the target language. * Describes several strategies and teaching-learning techniques that have been tried and tested over the last two and offer a blueprint for how to raise the success rate of students of minor foreign languages as well as grow a LCTL program. * Brings together in one place the most effective teaching methods and strategies to create a thriving and lasting language programme.