About the Japanese Language Scholarship
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Joy Palmer is currently a graduate student at Brigham Young University,
where she is studying Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her
first contact with Japanese language and culture came as a child
when she lived with her family in Okinawa, Japan for several
years. After returning to the U.S., she studied Japanese in high
school and college before going to Japan to participate in the
JET program in Hyogo Prefecture. After JET she continued working
in Japan before returning to the U.S. to work in the Japanese
travel industry. Even while working in different industries,
she never forgot the dedicated teachers who helped her learn
Japanese. Because of all the wonderful opportunities learning
Japanese has given her, she decided to return to school so that
she could become a Japanese teacher and help future generations
of students achieve their goals of learning Japanese.
Joy enjoys teaching all levels of Japanese and is particularly
interested in reading development. She looks forward to using
the scholarship to improve her own teaching ability and build
relationships with reading specialists in Japan, as well as provide
valuable reading materials for her students. She plans to travel
to Japan to purchase reading materials, meet with members of
the Japanese Extensive Reading Research Group and observe extensive
reading classes in Japan.
Joy sends her message upon her acceptance of the scholarship
as follows:
"I am honored to have been chosen for the Aurora Foundation
scholarship.
Thanks to this scholarship I will be able develop my teaching
ability in ways I would not have been able to otherwise. I look
forward to using this opportunity to improve as a teacher so
that I can better serve my students. "
To welcome the recipient of the JLSF scholarships, the Aurora
Foundation is holding the Aurora Foundation Benefit Dinner &
Auction in Los Angeles in Autumn, 2012. There will also be a
benefit auction (live & silent) which is a fundraising event
for the Aurora Foundation (EIN: 31-1639219).
For more information, including sponsorship, please contact the Aurora Foundation at (323) 882-6545 or by e-mail at AuroraFoundation@usa.net. Please check the JLSF website at www.jlsf-aurora.org.
10th
annual scholarship winners (2011)
9th annual
scholarship winners (2010)
8th annual
scholarship winners (2009)
7th annual
scholarship winners (2006)
6th annual
scholarship winners (2005)
5th annual scholarship winners (2004)
4th annual scholarship winners (2003)
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