Native-Speaker Assistants (NA)

All sections of the UGA Japanese language classes may enroll 25-30 students. In order to increase teacher-student contact the Japanese Language Program relies on the help of Japanese native speaker assistants (NAs) who routinely assist the instructors. The NAs are either undergraduate students from Japan, occasionally graduate students, or community members who have the time and the desire to assist American students. The NAs usually perform the following tasks:

- while students are having a test at the beginning of their class, the NAs correct the submitted homework.

- while the instructor teaches the class new material, the NAs correct and grade the day's tests.

- when the correction of the tests is finished, the instructor will divide the class into small groups and will assign a native speaker to each group. The NAs will drill the students in the newly learned material.

- at the end of the class the NAs will return the corrected homeworks and tests to the students. The immediate feedback which the students receive from the NAs at the end of each class is one of the main reasons why the UGA Japanese Language Program is so efficient.

	Daibo, Mariko 1997

	Kawamura, Miwako 1997

	Matsumoto, Fumiko 1997

	Miyagawa, Hiromu 1996

	Nakamura, Aki 1994

	Ogawa, Kayoko 1997

	Terazono, Kousuke 1997-

	Watanabe, Miyuki 1994-