Education
Doctor Jorden earned her Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University under the direction of Bernard Bloch in 1950.
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Eleanor Jorden
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Career
She was best known for her seminal textbooks on the Japanese language, including Beginning Japanese and Japanese: The Spoken Language. The latter text included Jorden"s Journal of Symbolic Logic system of romaji for transcribing Japanese into Roman script. Her explanations of the subtleties of Japanese grammar and usage are still widely referenced today.
Jorden 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.
Foreign many years, Jorden also served as Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages at the United States. State Department"s Foreign Service Institute (FSI). Jorden also founded several programs, including the intensive FALCON Program at Cornell University and the Foreign Service Institute Japanese Language School in Tokyo, Japan.
Achievements
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Order of the Precious Crown, 1985. Japan Foundation Award, 1985 Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), 1993. Williams College, honorary doctorate. Knox College, honorary doctorate. Middlebury College, honorary doctorate. University of Stirling (Scotland), honorary doctorate. President of the Association for Asian Studies in 1980.
