Overview
This volume is part of an exciting experiment in scholarship: to promote an innovative approach to plurilingualism. All royalties from sales of this work will support the ""Jon Hassall Memorial Fund for the encouragement of Jazz at Trinity College of Music, Old Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9JF UK."" The New Potter: Japanese-English Bilingual Reader is Volume One of the World Japanese Bilingual Readers Series. This series consists of stories from around the world written bilingually with carefully controlled vocabulary and grammar making them suitable for learners and users of both Japanese and other languages. A variety of realistic and exciting themes encourage reading for pleasure. Parallel series include Bilingual Readers and Translation Workbooks to encourage self-study, teaching/learning and translation to/from other languages. The Bilingual Readers support user preference being presented in 2 formats depending on the language that appears first in each paragraph. These Bilingual Readers also provide an expert translation solution for the complementary Translation Workbooks, which can be used to stimulate written and/or oral translation. The New Potter - Grandfather is becoming too old to make pots anymore. Who will take over his work? His grand-daughter Jamilah is the only person interested, but making pots is not a girl's work.
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Author: Peter John Hassall ,
Susan Hassall ,
Yuko Takeshita
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.118kg
ISBN: 9781533521002
ISBN 10: 153352100
Pages: 68
Publication Date: 05 January 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: Japanese
Author Information
Peter & Susan Hassall are authors of a number of books written for and by students of World Englishes including their well-known ESSC series output following implementation of the Extremely Short Story Competition [ESSC] held in the UAE, Japan and Lithuania. Having worked in Higher Education in the Middle East, South-East Asia and the Pacific Rim, Peter & Susan Hassall have been presented three English Speaking Union awards at Buckingham Palace by HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, President of the ESU. Yuko Takeshita is a professor of English and Intercultural Communication at Toyo Eiwa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. During her 30 plus years of experience of teaching, she has published various kinds of books for Japanese users/learners of English, and articles on Asian Englishes and Intercultural Communication. Some of these concern the Extremely Short Story Competition in Japan that she was responsible for, in cooperation with Peter Hassall.
