Kazue Masuyama, Foreign Languages, has been presented the 2006 Teacher Award (Community College/College/University) by the National Council of Teachers of Japanese Language (NCJLT). It is an organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Japanese language teaching at the elementary, secondary, and higher education levels across the United States. The Award Ceremony was held at the 40th Annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 18, 2006.

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Award Speech: Thank you very much for the Award Committee members and people who supported me for many years: my colleagues, Junko-san, Naoko-san, Andrea-san, Marjorie, Kathy, Carol, members of Capital Foreign Language Project, and all Japanese teachers in Sacramento region. My special thanks go to Kataoka sensei and Cummings sensei who believed in me.

Thank you very much for special gift from Kodansha International, Cheng & Tsui Company, Tuttle Publishing, JP Trading, Inc. & IACE Travel

Carol, me, Junko, & Andrea