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Link Interac Inc. is a Japanese company founded in 1972 [1] which focuses to providing Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) to public elementary, middle, and high schools in Japan. From 2010 to 2014, Interac was owned by Advantage Partners.
Of all of the teachers, the Japanese government had sent 14 of them. Of the 32 teachers of the Saturday school, the Japanese government sent 2. [4] In 1992 the Japanese government sent 16 teachers to Chicago Futabakai. [6] In 1995 the day school had 28 teachers, with 16 teachers from Japan and 12 local teachers.
A 2012 survey of foreign-language learners by the Japan Foundation found 4,270 teachers teaching the Japanese language to 155,939 students at 1,449 different institutions, an increase of 10.4% in the number of students since the 2009 survey. [1]
The Chicago World Language Academy was opened in 1894 to serve children from the crowded tenement community surrounding the Polk Street Station port of entry for immigrants. That year was started one of the first public schools kindergartens in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1981 this school has offered foreign language instruction to Chicago's students.
The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) is "an international, non-profit, non-political organization of scholars, teachers, and students of Japanese language, literature, and linguistics dedicated to teaching and scholarship and to the exchange of information among teachers and other professionals to help broaden and deepen knowledge and appreciation of Japan and its culture."
The Chicago Futabakai Japanese School is located in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Chicago Futabakai Japanese School Saturday school first opened in the North Side in May 1966. The Saturday school moved to Skokie, Illinois, in May 1978. At that time, [18] the day school opened in Skokie, with four teachers sent by the Japanese government. [19]
David L. McConnell, Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program (2000) Bruce Feiler, Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991), later published as Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan; Eric Sparling Japan Diary: A year on JET (2005) Nicholas Klar, My Mother is a Tractor: A Life in Rural Japan (2005)
3 Interac and the LDS church. 10 comments. 4 There is a LOT of rumor taking the place of fact here... 4 comments. 5 Company and management issues? 2 comments.