THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE AMAZON

Abstract

This article aims to make the public aware, especially to teachers working in the area of ​​Japanese language teaching, regarding the historical trajectory of Japanese Language teaching in Amazonas and its importance, in order to contribute both in the cultural aspect as well as educational. Japanese language students will be able to serve as an eventual source of research for academic works, both at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) where there is a Language Course - Japanese Language and Literature, and at the State Bilingual Schools of Portuguese / Japanese Language, of teaching Elementary School and High School. For this, this work was elaborated looking mainly for the sources of information in the materials elaborated in Japanese language, because until recently (less than 20 years before) it was the first generation immigrants who tried to register and elaborate in Japanese, the pertinent events teaching Japanese in the Amazon. It means, in this sense, that investigating the trajectory of Japanese language teaching in Amazonas is to establish the connection with the history of Japanese immigration in Amazonas, because as stated by Morales (2010, p. 2) “[...] the entire trajectory of Japanese language teaching in Brazil cannot be dissociated from the context that started with the immigration of Japanese people until it reached the process of integrating their descendants into Brazilian society [...]”.