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Japanese Language
Director of the Japanese Language Program

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Japanese Studies
  • Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

• Fields of Study

  • Japanese Pedagogy
  • Language Acquisition

• About

  Teaching history 

  Part-time Lecturer, Sophia University, Japan (1988-89)     
  Full –time Lecturer, Columbia University (1989-96)   
  Full –time Lecturer, Princeton University (1996-2000)  
  Full –time Lecturer, University of Michigan (2000-present)     

   

  Major publications 

  Rapid Reading Japanese - Improving Reading Skills of Intermediate and Advanced Students (Tokyo: The Japan Times,1998);

  “The Benefits of Including Metaphors in Japanese Language Instruction,” Nihongo-kyooiku no Shin-tenkai, O. Kamada, et al. (eds.) (Tokyo: Hituzisyobo, 2005);

  TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese (Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 2009); Power Up Your Kanji (Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 2010);

  TOBIRA: Teaching Intermediate Japanese - Teacher's Guide(Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 2011);

  Bilingual Dictionary of Similar Metaphors in English and Japanese (with Seiichi Makino, Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, (to appear in 2012))

  Other : Board Member, Association of Teachers of Japanese (2007-10)

• Education

  • Program in Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University, 1992
  • MA, Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, 1985
  • BA, Chuo University, 1975