Ohayo, Portland: Using Foreign Language as a Bridge to Learning

A partial-immersion K-12 Japanese-language program teaches students that it's easy to make friends if you speak the same tongue. More to this story.

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Release Date: 3/26/2004
Running Time: 7 min.

Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Associate Producers:

  • Ashley Ball
  • Miwa Yokoyama

Editor:

  • Karen Sutherland

Camera Crew:

  • Rob Weller
  • Michael Curtiss

Narrator:

  • Susan Blake

Original Music:

  • Ed Bogas

Additional Photos Courtesy of

  • Takeshi Tomimori

Special Thanks to

  • Japanese Garden Society of Oregon
  • © 2004
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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