Eleanor Jorden

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Eleanor Harz Jorden is an American linguistics scholar and an influential Japanese language educator and expert.

Dr. Jorden is best known for her seminal textbooks on the Japanese language, including Beginning Japanese and Japanese, The Spoken Language. The latter text included Jorden's JSL system of romaji for transcribing Japanese into the Roman alphabet. Her explanations of the subtleties of Japanese grammar and usage are still widely referenced today.

Eleanor Jorden has taught Japanese at many educational institutions, including Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, Williams College, the University of Hawaii, International Christian University in Tokyo and Ohio State University. For many years, Jorden also served as Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI).

Dr. Jorden has also founded several programs, including the intensive FALCON Program at Cornell University and the Foreign Service Institute Japanese Language School in Tokyo, Japan.

[edit] Selected Awards

  • His Majesty the Emperor of Japan’s Third Class of the Order of the Precious Crown, 1985
  • The Japan Foundation Award, 1985
  • Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 1993
  • four honorary doctorates

[edit] Selected Bibliography

  • 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.