Mission

In order to foster students’ international leadership capabilities, a university-level liberal arts education must equip students with communication skills and intercultural understanding. The realization of this objective requires students to cultivate a broad spectrum of values and worldviews by developing competence in languages beyond their native tongue.

As such, the CCLE’s primary mission is to advance language education by researching current language teaching methodologies and examining the ever-changing cultural education curricula in higher education, both domestically and globally. Therefore, the CCLE aspires to incorporate concrete, workable, and innovative reforms into its curricula that will enhance learners’ linguistic and cultural fluency. To achieve these outcomes, the CCLE emphasizes the four skills of language – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – and aims to develop students’ abilities in these domains using a wide variety of purposeful and effective linguistic and cultural learning materials.

Responsibilities

  1. The planning, development, and management of the higher level education classes for the three sections of foreign/second langauge education: English, Japanese, and other languages.
  2. The establishment, development and maintaining of a Japanese language curriculum for foreign exchange students.
  3. Promotion of hybrid education that integrates online and face-to-face learning, as well as digital transformation (DX). through research and development of ICT-integrated foreign language education.
  4. The planning, developmeant, and implemention of EFL curriculum aimed at enhancing proficiency in English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP).
  5. The planning, developmeant, and implemention of the Tohoku University Plurilingual Studies (TU PluS) program, which fosters plurilingual competence by encouraging mastery of an additional foreign language alongside English.
  6. The planning and management of programs to strengthen the teaching abilities of educators engaged in language and cultural education.
  7. Working in partnership with the Global Learning Center to enrich overseas study programs and foreign language and communication skills education initiatives.