This presentation raises the question of what improving language skills is, and what teachers should do to support it, based on the practice of language education, such pedagogies as those practiced by Yoshio Toi, Hama Omura and Nancy Atwell. Toi, Omura, and Atwell prepared carefully to improve their student's verbal ability and were conducting lessons with detailed plan, focusing on what kind of verbal ability would be needed for the students in practical society. On the other hand, in Japanese language education for non-native speakers, few classes have a long-term perspective. In the presentation, we would like to introduce these three practitioners’ elaborate practices and discuss with the participants about the teaching of Japanese language education.
