Faculty Spotlight: Poi Canilao

2024 Aug 19
One of the main thrusts of the Department is the teaching of the national languages of Asia. We are thus very fortunate to have Assistant Professorial Fellow…

Ria Rafael participates in Japan Foundation teacher training program

2023 Oct 21
Assistant Professor Ria Rafael is currently in Saitama, Japan participating in the Comprehensive Japanese Teaching Methods Program for Teachers…

Faculty Spotlight: Joanna Tecson

2023 Oct 02
Chinese language lecturer Maria Joanna Tecson joined the Department in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That rocky and uncertain period…

UP Lingg hosts Japanese language education lecture-workshop

2023 Sep 13
The Department organized a two-day lecture-workshop on Japanese language education in the Philippines last June 23 to 24 at Palma Hall as part…

Yen Chua teaches Filipino at Jeonbuk National University Southeast Asian Language Summer Camp

2023 Jul 27
Senior Lecturer Maria Concepcion Loren Chua was once again invited to teach a two-week Filipino language course at the Jeonbuk National…

Updates from the Japanese Language Cluster

2022 Dec 06
Since September 2022, the Department’s Japanese Language Cluster has been organizing and hosting activities as part of their celebration of the Department’s centennial anniversary. It launched the…

Kiko Sunga undergoes Japan Foundation’s teacher training program

2022 Aug 30
Japanese language lecturer Lean Akiko Sunga (BA Ling, 2016) has been selected to be one of the trainees of