| Position | Professor |
|---|---|
| Institution | Center for Evolving Humanities |
Career
| March 2010: | Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Human System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology |
| September 2020: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Educational Studies of the Japanese Language
1) Japanese Language Teacher Education
With the increase and diversification of Japanese language learners as a second/foreign language, Japanese Language Teacher Education is becoming increasingly important. Under such background, I am developing effective instructing methods and materials based on the quantitative and qualitative survey of the differences between the difficulties encountered when university students studying Japanese language pedagogy teach Japanese and the difficulties encountered by in-service teachers.
2) Acquisition and Learning of Written Language
Learning Japanese as a second/foreign language generally begins with daily conversation using basic sentence patterns and basic vocabulary and moves on to learning to read and write with the acquisition of conceptual and abstract vocabulary. Paraphrasing is a key to scaffolding Japanese language learners during this transition from spoken to written language, and I am researching and developing instructional methods and materials focusing on paraphrasing.
