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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