Eleanor Jorden
Eleanor Harz Jorden(December 28, 1920 – February 18, 2009) was an American linguistics scholar and an influentialJapanese languageeducator and expert. Born Eleanor Harz, she marriedWilliam Jorden,reporter and diplomat; the marriage ended in divorce.[1]
Jorden earned her Ph.D. atYale Universityunder the direction ofBernard Blochin 1950.[2]She was best known for her seminal textbooks on the Japanese language, includingBeginning JapaneseandJapanese: The Spoken Language.The latter text included Jorden'sJSLsystem ofrōmajifor transcribing Japanese intoRoman script.Her explanations of the subtleties ofJapanese grammarand usage are still widely referenced today.
Jorden taught Japanese at many educational institutions, includingCornell University,Bryn Mawr College,Johns Hopkins University,Williams College,theUniversity of Hawaii,International Christian Universityin Tokyo andOhio State University.For many years, Jorden also served as Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages at theU.S. State Department'sForeign Service Institute(FSI).
Jorden also founded several programs, including the intensive FALCON Program atCornell Universityand the Foreign Service Institute Japanese Language School in Tokyo, Japan.
Honors
[edit]- Order of the Precious Crown,1985.[3]
- Japan Foundation Award,1985[3]
- Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education,American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages(ACTFL), 1993.[3]
- Williams College,honorary doctorate.[4]
- Knox College,honorary doctorate.[4]
- Middlebury College,honorary doctorate.[4]
- University of Stirling(Scotland), honorary doctorate.[4]
- President of theAssociation for Asian Studiesin 1980.
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Chaplin, Hamako Ito (1962)Beginning Japanese: Part 1.New Haven, CT:Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Chaplin, Hamako Ito (1963)Beginning Japanese: Part 2.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Chaplin, Hamako Ito (1976)Reading Japanese.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Noda, Mari (1987).Japanese, The Spoken Language:Part 1.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Noda, Mari (1988).Japanese, The Spoken Language: Part 2.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor Harz & Noda, Mari (1990).Japanese, The Spoken Language: Part 3.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jorden, Eleanor H., with Richard Lambert (1991).Japanese Language Instruction in the United States: Resources, Practice, and Investment Strategy.Washington, D.C.: Natl. Foreign Lang. Center.
References
[edit]- ^Fox, Maralit."William J. Jorden, Reporter and Envoy, Dies at 85",New York Times.February 28, 2009.
- ^J. Marshall Unger,Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan(Oxford University Press US, 1996:ISBN978-0-19-510166-9), p. 100.
- ^abcNational Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP),Eleanor JordenArchived2010-09-18 at theWayback Machine.
- ^abcd"Eleanor 'Mudd' Harz Jorden Dies at 88,"Vineyard Gazette.March 6, 2009.
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