CNGL CTYI Courses 2009

From July 13-17 2009, CNGL ran two combined modules with CTYI; 'Japanese Language' and 'Culturally Localising Web Pages'.

A group of forty students, aged 8-13 years old, took the two modules. Joss Moorkens, a CNGL PhD student based in DCU, taught the language module. Dr. Dimitra Anastasiou, a CNGL postdoctoral researcher at the University of Limerick (UL), and Naoto Nishio, a CNGL PhD student at UL, taught the culturally localising web pages. The Culturally Localising Web Pages course is designed to introduce the concept of localisation to the participants by comparing fun Japanese, English and French web sites. This course highlights the differences and similarities of contents among those languages and cultures to explain the importance of localisation. This students learnt the Katakana character set in Japanese and were able to type them when they created their own website.

A CNGL PhD student, Robert Smith, ran a "Computers and Animation" course with the Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI) in DCU. Forty children, aged 8-13 years old, attended the course last week in DCU (July 6th-July 10th).