seekrit project

Wow, got way more done on Teeny Seekrit Project than I expected tonight. I have no way of judging how long it's going to take to finish, partly because I highly doubt I'll finish it Tuesday night, and I'm going to Mom's house for Thanksgiving on Wednesday and won't be back until Saturday. Hopefully it'll be finished Saturday or Sunday.

And fighting the urge to ask if anyone else would like to ink it, partly because I need to work on that myself. But may offer it for inking afterwards, for anyone who wishes to try.

Yes, the Teeny Seekrit Project involves inking. And something I mentioned on my LJ last week. Feel free to speculate. :D

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This looks like it'll be an interesting article. I can't get it online yet since it's in the most recent issue of the journal, and reading it would require me to OMG walk up the stairs and go to Current Periodicals, which would be way too old-fashioned for me to do. But I'll try to remember to look it up next month, or whenever we get the online version updated.

The article offers a look at American university and college students who are ambitious about learning foreign languages due to their appreciation for Japanese popular culture in the form of anime, Japanese animation, and manga, Japanese graphic novels. The author presents the results of interviews with Japanese instructors and students of Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) in the southern United States. Charts are presented that show different forms of media represented by the term anime and the differences between anime and United States animation. The author gives several advantages for JFL literacy development through anime.

Title: "Those anime students": Foreign language literacy development through Japanese popular culture.
Authors: Fukunaga, Natsuki
Source: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Nov2006, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p206-222, 17p