2020 Volume 18 Pages 182-202
On September 3, 2019, when autumn had already begun in Belgium, five Japanese language teachers from different first languages and institutions met at the University of Leuven in Belgium to discuss each other's work and the professionalism of Japanese language teachers. They talked about the CEFR, which has become a common understanding of language education in Belgium, the differences between the Japanese and Belgian contexts and as well as the ways of acknowledgement the CEFR and its practical implementation in the classroom. In order to realize these practices, it is important for Japanese language teachers to have various repartories of teaching as well as a philosophy of language education. The discussion was about two and a half hours long, and this paper is edited to fit it within the paper width.
