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Director of Japanese Language Program
Head Lecturer of Japanese Pedagogy - Summer Lang. Institute

• 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 Shintenkai, 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 - Teachers' 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