BA (Waseda U.), MA (U. Wisconsin-Madison), PhD (Carnegie Mellon U.)
Area of expertise
Japanese Language
Credentials
2019 Ph. D. in Second Language Acquisition
Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University
2000 M.A. in Japanese with concentration on Japanese Linguistics
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin‐Madison
1995 B.A. in Literature. Major: Japanese Language and Literature
Department of Japanese Language and Literature, School of Education, Waseda University
Selected Publications
8/2018 Measuring oral fluency: How fluent should L2 Japanese learners be to reach advanced level of proficiency? The 27th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference Proceedings
10/2014 “Contribution of metalinguistic awareness to reading ability and vocabulary knowledge: Phonological awareness and morphological awareness”(メタ言語意識の識字読解力及び語彙知識への貢献：音韻意識と形態素意識を中心に) KOTOBA TO MOZI (『ことばと文字』), 2, 137‐145.
3/2013 "Lexical Inferencing in L2 Japanese Reading: L2 Proficiency and L1 Reading as Predictors of Semantic Gap Filling (SGF) at Word Level." ICU Studies in Japanese Language Education, 9, 13‐31.
3/2012 "A cross‐sectional study on L2 pragmatic competence in Japanese: subordinate conjunctions kara and node " (日本語学習者による原因・理由を表す接続助詞「から」「ので」の語用論的使い分け能力の習得を探る横断的研究) ICU Studies in Japanese Language Education, 8, 3‐16.
Courses
PAAS 138: Intensive Beginner Japanese I
PAAS 238: Intensive Beginner Japanese II
PAAS 338: Intermediate Japanese
PAAS 343: Advanced Comprehension and Conversation in Japanese
