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Title: Professor of Japanese
- President, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron of California Chapter, 2013 – present.
- Invited Professor, National Institute for the Humanities, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) Japan, May 2012 – present.
- Board of Director, Japanese American Association of Northern California, 2014 – present.
- President, Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC), 2010 – 2014.
- Executive Board Member, American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), 2010 – 2013.
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), San Francisco Testing Site Coordinator, 2003 – present.
- President/CEO, Northern California Japanese Teachers' Association (NCJTA), 2005 – 2011.
- Japanese Program Coordinator, Fall 2001 - Spring 2009, Fall 2014 – present.
- Faculty Associate, the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development (CTFD), Fall 2007
Degrees:
- Ed. D., Human Development and Psychology [Concentration: Acquisition of Language and Culture] (Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA)
- Ed. M. in Education [Concentration: Human Development] (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
- B.A. in Literature (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
- B.A. in Economics (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
Qualifications:
- Japanese Interpreters' Association, Conference Interpreter
- Japanese Transportation Ministry, Certified Interpreter and Translator
- United Nations English Proficiency Test, Special A Class
- Level One (highest level) in the STEP (Society for Testing English Proficiency) Test
- Translation Instructor [taught at Simul Academy of International Communication, Translator Training Course: Japanese to English translation), Summer 1998 – Summer 1999, Summer 2000 – Summer 2003, Winter 2005, 2007 – 2009, Summer 2005 – 2010, Summer 2012, Summer 2014]
Research Interests:
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning Language and Culture
- Narrative and Discourse (including rhetorical structure and pragmatics)
- Sociocultural Approaches to Language
- First Language Acquisition (Japanese, English)
- Psycholinguistics/Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Theory
- Business and International Education
Journal Editorial Board Member:
- Journal of Japanese Linguistics, Editor-in-Chief, 2013 – present (Dilena Takeyama Center for the Study of Japan & Japanese Culture at San Francisco State University)
- Narrative Inquiry (John Benjamins)
- Journal of Japanese Linguistics 2005 – 2013 (Institute for Japanese Studies at the Ohio State University)
- Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics 2005 – 2007 (Cambridge University Press)
- Studies in Language Sciences (SLS) 1999 – 2007
- Acquisition of Japanese as a Second-Language Studies (AJSL)
- JAPN 103 Third-Semester Japanese ------------- M, Tu, & W 12:00 p.m. � 12:50 p.m. Zoom
- JAPN 305 Advanced Conversation &Composition I ------- M & W 9:30 a.m. � 10:45 a.m. Zoom
- JAPN 309 Advanced Readings in Japanese ------------- M & W 2:00 p.m. � 3:15 p.m. Zoom
Courses Taught in the Past:
- JAPN 101 First-Semester Japanese
- JAPN 102 Second-Semester Japanese
- JAPN 103 Third-Semester Japanese
- JAPN 305 Advanced Conversation & Composition I
- JAPN 306 Advanced Conversation & Composition II
- JAPN 309 Advanced Readings in Japanese
- JAPN 390 Business Japanese
- JAPN 395 Advanced Business Japanese: Business Writing
- JAPN 699 Special Study
- JAPN 710 Current Topics in Japanese Society: Radio and Television
- JAPN 710 Current Topics in Japanese Society: Magazines and Periodicals
- JAPN 725 Technical Translation
- JAPN 730 Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation
- JAPN 735 Simultaneous Interpretation
- JAPN 750 Seminar in Japanese Linguistics
- JAPN 765 Second Language Acquisition
- JAPN 890 Integrative Seminar: Japanese Language and Culture
- JAPN 895 Applied Research Project
- JAPN 897 Research
- JAPN 898 Master's Thesis
- JAPN 899 Special Study
- AU 694 Integrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Study Abroad
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