2024/1/10

Our students held events with a variety of programs in English, French, and German, including reading picture books aloud, quizzes, and songs related to Christmas from different countries at children's centers and nursery schools.

They read “Guri To Gura No Okyakusama'' aloud in English and German at the Kyoto City Kadono Children's Center, and the event was a great success with over 20 children participating on Tuesday, December 12th.

They read "Big Turnip" aloud in English and German, and sang "Jingle Bells" in English, French, and German at Saiin Nursery School on Saturday, December 16th. There was always friendly interaction between more than 30 parents and children and them.

This event is held with the aim of passing on the languages and knowledge about various countries that students learned at university to children who will become the leaders of society in the future, and creating friends who will live together in a multicultural society. This is part of a project that connects local with university learning. This year, eight volunteer students (five from Department of British and American Studies, one from Department of French Studies, one from Department of German Studies, and one from Department of Japanese Studies), as well as Professor Mami Yoshida of Department of British and American Studies and Professor Tomoko Nakayama of Department of French Studies, participated. They held this event three times in total this year, and they read picture books aloud in English, German, French, Dutch, and Italian to visiting parents and children as part of the "Multilingual Reading Aloud Project” at the festival of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies held in November.

*This project is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Developmental Learning in a Community through Plurilingual and Pluricultural Activities: An Attempt at Collaborative Action Research (20K00904).”

Back