{"id":17771,"date":"2021-11-25T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helte.jp\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:24:35","slug":"sussex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helte.jp\/en\/17771\/","title":{"rendered":"Helte has launched a joint research project with the University of Sussex in the UK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helte, the company behind the Japanese global communication service Sail, has launched a joint research project with the University of Sussex in the UK!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Helte Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture; Representative: Manabu Goto; hereinafter, \u201cHelte\u201d) has launched a joint research project with Dr. Junko Winch\u2019s research team at the University of Sussex to study the improvements in the Japanese communication skills of Japanese learners who utilize the Japanese global communication service Sail.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This research project aims to illuminate the ways in which interactions with native Japanese speakers on Sail help learners of the language to improve their Japanese communication skills and encourage their acceptance of cultural differences, as well as to develop effective methods of learning Japanese through industry-academia collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*Sail strives to offer opportunities for users to deepen their understanding of other cultures through engaging in interactive exchange.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*As this project aims to evaluate how Sail can be harnessed in Japanese language education, people around the world who are learning Japanese are referred to as \u201cJapanese learners,\u201d while people from Japan are referred to as \u201cnative Japanese speakers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

About the University of Sussex<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n

The University of Sussex hosts students from over 120 countries around the world, especially countries in Asia and the EU, as well as the United States. The university incorporates the perspectives of a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds into its pedagogical and research methodologies. Since its establishment, the university has been committed to interdisciplinary research and has made significant contributions as a pioneer of new research areas such as development studies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u25bcAbout Japanese language courses<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Through the IWLP (Institution-wide Language Programme) offered at British universities, university students enrolled at the University of Sussex are able to read courses outside their affiliated department that they are interested in, including Japanese language courses. Currently, students in the humanities, social sciences (mainly business and psychology), and sciences (STEM) are learning Japanese alongside their respective specialized areas of study. Around 90 students have studied Japanese in 2020-21, and their main reasons for learning the language include having a strong interest in Japan, Japanese culture, and the Japanese language, as well as in anime, Japanese movies, Japanese music, food, and other reasons such as a desire to live in Japan or travel to Japan in the future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u25bcJapanese Elective at the University of Sussex<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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