Student Achievement

Student Achievements Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) 2023

Spring 2024: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2024

JPAN400 Megan Webb Level 3 Silver	JPAN410 Noa Goldfischer Level 3 Bronze	JPAN410 Damon Lee Level 3 Silver	JPAN410 Rebecca Peng Level 3 Gold
JPAN410 Sierra Williams Level 3 Bronze	JPAN410 Kevin Wu Level 3 Silver	JPAN410 Helena Zhang Level 3 Gold	JPAN400 Charles Schumer Level 3 Silver
JPAN400 Jack Abbrecht Level 3 Silver	JPAN200 Yun Xin Tham Level 3 Silver	JPAN200 Yuying Fan Level 2 Gold

Fall 2023: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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Student Achievements Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Spring 2023: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2023

JPAN400 Emma Shellenberger, Dylan Throop, Daniel Gross-Loh, and Conrad Jones (left to right) – LEVEL 3

JPAN400 Emily Wilson (left), Nkemdilim Okoli (right), and Aaron Wu (not in the photo) – LEVEL 3

Navmi Sharma (C’23) was awarded the 2023 EALC Student Prize!

“My paper titled “Fearing the Feminine: Understanding Female Monstrosity in Asian Horror” won the 2023 William R. LaFleur Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate paper in Japanese Studies, which is annually administered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Penn. This was a paper written under the guidance of Professor Kathryn Hemman in her class EALC 3252: Japanese Ghost Stories (Fall 2022). It studies the representation of women in East Asian horror movies and was strongly influenced by my interest in Japanese culture which is often known to be patriarchal and more socially restrictive towards women. For my research, I used movies such as リング and 仄暗い水の底から (Dark Water) for reference and am grateful for the years of studying Japanese that allowed me to understand the subtle cultural subtexts of the stories often missed by non-speakers.”

Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) 2022

Fall 2022: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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Student Achievement Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2022

JPAN012 Jessica Liu
Gold Award (Level 2)

JPAN112 Aditya Gupta
Silver Award (Level 3)

JPAN112 Hebe Chen
Silver Award (Level 3)

JPAN112 Zoey Kline
Bronze Award (Level 3)

Spring 2022: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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Fall 2021: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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Student Achievement Fall 2021

Japanese Learning Inspired Vision and Engagement Talk (J.LIVE Talk) 2021

Congrats to Navmi Sharma (College of Arts and Sciences) in JPAN211, who received the Silver Award in George Washington University’s J.LIVE 2021, a national-level Japanese language/presentation competition !

Student Achievement Fall 2020 – Spring 2021 (remote learning)

National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2021

JPAN112 Navmi Sharma Silver Award (Level 3)

Spring 2021: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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JPAN212 Gregory Levy	JPAN112 Jeremiah Yang	JPAN012 Catherine Liu	JPAN212 Alex Kalbach
JPAN012 Philip Rain	JPAN012 Cynthia Gu	JPAN012 Aditya Gupta	JPAN012 Jackson Maxwell
JPAN012 Zoey Kline

Fall 2020: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

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JPAN211 Teji Wang	JPAN211 Irene Pyo	JPAN111 Navmi Sharma	JPAN111 Jinlong (Jeremiah) Yang
JPAN111 Charlotte Krevitt	JPAN111 Jiani Tian	JPAN111 Hansie Wang	JPAN111 Kevin Muller
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Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2020 More than 1,000 Japanese language learners from middle school to college, including over a dozen at Penn, participated in this proficiency-oriented, standards-based online test in April – during emergency remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please join us for congratulating our students on their high achievement, which was recognized and awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)! These students have agreed to share their photos on our site.

Tiffany Chang (JPAN 112) Gold Award recipient (Level 3)	Lilian Chen (JPAN 022) Silver Award recipient (Level 3)	Eileen Gao (JPAN 112) Gold Award recipient (Level 3)	Alex Kalbach (JPAN 112) Gold Award recipient (Level 3)
Shuyun Yang (JPAN 022) Gold Award recipient (Level 3) Ranked #1 nationwide!	Maika Pereira (JPAN 012) Bronze Award recipient (Level 2) p

Spring 2020: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award)

Awarded to the students who completed the course without being absent, even after we transitioned to remote learning!

Fall 2019: Kaikinsho (Perfect Attendance Award) Awarded to the students who completed the course without being absent.

J.LIVE (Japanese Learning Inspired Vision and Engagement) Talk 2018

Two Penn Students Won the Gold Award in the Final Round of J.LIVE Talk! Barbara Chen (Undergraduate, Arts & Sciences) and Zizhou Wang (MA Student, EALC) won the gold award in the final round of the speech competition called J.LIVE Talk, organized by George Washington University. Big congratulation!

National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2016

May 24, 2016 – In Spring 2016, the first-year level and the second-year level students from the Japanese Language Program participated in the National Japanese Exam. The National Japanese Exam (NJE) is an online, proficiency-oriented, standards-based, and culture-related assessment tool for middle school (junior high), high school, and college students who are studying Japanese as a second language. It was developed by AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) as a way for such students to test their Japanese skills and participate in a nation-wide exam with awards for high achievement (text taken directly from http://www.aatj.org/nje).

We’d like to highlight the success of the students who took NJE this spring: “GOLD” Award Recipients: 1. Ms. Christine Fu (NJE College Regular: Level 3) 2. Ms. Barbara Chen (NJE College Regular: Level 3) 3. Mr. Xiaoxin Tang (NJE College Regular: Level 2)

“SILVER” Award Recipients: 1. Ms. Tiffany Wong (NJE College Regular: Level 3) 2. Ms. Wesley Chow (NJE College Regular: Level 3)

“BRONZE” Award Recipients: 1. Ms. Vivian Jair (NJE College Regular: Level 3) 2. Ms. Kaitlyn Ugoretz (NJE College Regular: Level 3)

“HONORABLE MENTION” Award Recipients: 1. Mr. Julian Roessler (NJE College Regular: Level 3) 2. Ms. Ivy Tse (NJE College Regular: Level 2) 3. Mr. Roger Lee (NJE College Regular: Level 2) 4. Ms. Janis Ripoll (NJE College Regular: Level 2) 5. Mr. John Evans (NJE College Regular: Level 2) Congratulations to You All!!!

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National Japanese Exam (NJE) 2014

In Spring 2014, the first-year level and the second-year level students from the Japanese Language Program participated in the National Japanese Exam. We’d like to highlight the success of the students who took NJE last spring:

1. Ms. Camille Yuki Knapp: ranked #1 nationwide and received “GOLD” medal/certificate from AATJ.(took NJE Level 3- 2nd year Japanese language student)

img_4178_4 2. Ms. Tanya Datta: ranked #1 nationwide and received “GOLD” medal/certificate from AATJ.(took NJE Level 3- 2nd year Japanese language student) 3. Mr. Samuel Miner:　received “BRONZE” Level Certificate (70-79 Percentile).(took NJE Level 2- 1st year Japanese language student) Big Congratulations!!! We are very proud of your achievement!!! (Photos taken @ Award Ceremony in conjunction with PANEL ON STUDENT CAREER AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN JAPAN on Friday, October 17th, 2014)

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