The Princeton Community Japanese Language School (PCJLS; プリンストン日本語学校 ''Purinsuton Nihongo Gakkō'') is a Japanese weekend school in the

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area. It holds weekend Japanese classes for Japanese citizen children abroad to the standard of the

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(MEXT), and it also has classes for people with Japanese as a second language. Courses are held at Memorial Hall at

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in Lawrence Township, Mercer County. The school offices are in Princeton, except on Sundays, when the offices are at Rider University.Home
" Princeton Community Japanese Language School. Retrieved on February 14, 2015. "プリンストン日本語学校オフィス 14 Moore Street, Princeton, NJ 08542" and "Sunday Office Rider University, Memorial Hall, Rm301" This is one of the Japanese weekend school systems in the

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.Kano, p
106
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History

Five Japanese researchers at

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founded the PCJLS in 1980. It was originally at that institution but moved to Rider in 1996.

Curriculum

The school's

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(MEXT)-compliant classes are part of its Division 1. The principal of Division 1 is funded by MEXT.Kano, p
107
In addition, the school offers Japanese heritage language courses, Japanese as a foreign language courses,Kano, p
108
and courses for adults as part of Division 2, which is oriented to children attending university in the United States and other persons from English-dominant households. The school's teachers developed their own kanji textbooks for use in these courses.Kano, p
109
Placement into a particular division involves consultations in which the student, the parents, and/or PCJLS teachers are involved.

Student body

Many PCJLS students are U.S. permanent residents with at least some Japanese ancestral origin, including multilingual students with one or more parents who speak a language not English and/or not Japanese, and/or bilingual students living in English-dominant households. These students often attend heritage classes and/or Japanese as a second language courses.

Teaching staff

Parents, as of 2012, make up 70% of the teachers at PCJLS.

References

* Kano, Naomi (加納なおみ ''Kanō Naomi''). "Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population" (Chapter 6). In: García, Ofelia, Zeena Zakharia, and Bahar Otcu (editors). ''Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City'' (Volume 89 of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism).

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, 2012. , 9781847698001. START: p
99

References

External links

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Princeton Community Japanese Language School
(Archive)
海外の週末日本語学校（プリンストン日本語学校の取り組み）

Archive
. Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education (MHB) Research Association (母語・継承語・バイリンガル教育（MHB）研究会). {{coord, 40.351894, -74.654946, type:edu_globe:earth_region:US-NJ, display=title Japanese-American culture in New Jersey Schools in Princeton, New Jersey Schools in Mercer County, New Jersey Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey

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History

Curriculum

Student body

Teaching staff

See also

References

References

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