MASAFUMI KANEKO

Improvement of language abilities in each subjects are required at all schools in Japan now. Course of study says all schools in Japan also must cultivate students' abilities of thinking, decision with evidence and presentation. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has already provided introduction textbooks for teachers on improvement of language abilities. Many teachers use and refer these textbooks now. This paper comes up with using language arts technique for each subjects in Japan and shows importance of exploring for teaching materials and teaching methods by two lesson studies using language arts technique at graduate school and middle school.

In 2007, an in-service seminar for arithmetic education was held on Pohnpei island in the Federated states of Micronesia by the JICA office in Micronesia. The content of this seminar and some specific ideas from this seminar are reported here.