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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 141 -★ These two culture classes were taught by 22 teachers of the Facultyof Education in the form of lectures, seminars, and field works.*As it was expected that the number of foreign students at MU wouldincrease year after year, it was rather urgent for the university to establishthe Japanese language education system after three Faculties were broughttogether on the Kibana campus in 1988.*At that time, there were many short-term and long-term problems ofJapanese language education, including:・The most important problem was that the Japanese language courseswere not properly placed in the curriculum of the university.・There was no organization such as Department of Japanese Language.・There was no full-time Japanese language teacher. Some teachersvoluntarily teach these courses [The problem of teaching burden].・There were no financial measure, so all the cost, including textbooks,copying materials, transportation fees for field trips, was covered by theDepartment of the teachers or the teachers themselves in charge of thesecourses [The financial problem].・As the relation of the university to the Japanese language teachingorganizations outside the university (other universities or schools ofJapanese language) or to the individual teachers of Japanese was not wellestablished, it was difficult to ask them to help the university Japaneselanguage education [The problem of shortage of teaching staff].* This was rather a countermeasure thrown together hastily. It was truethat the establishment of the Japanese language education system was anurgent business for the university. Considering the sizable increase of theforeign students, this was an unavoidable problem.(ⅱ) PeriodⅡ (1988～1990)*From the second year (October 1988) of the student exchange program (twofrom TESC and one from DCE), the Japanese language classes were dividedinto three, which were taught by two teachers of Japanese Department andtwo teachers of English Department:・A beginner’s class (two clsses a week: by Mr.Narahara & Mr.Suga)・An intermediate class (one class a week: by Mr.Minami & Mr.Hirase)・A complete beginner’s class (one class a week: by Mr.Hirase)*In 1989, Ms.Joyce Ogawa, a Filipina living in Miyazaki, was asked to