Education
- B.A. Psychology (with High Honors). Wheaton
College, Wheaton, IL. 1984
- M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language.
UCLA. 1990
- Ph.D. Applied Linguistics. UCLA. 1993
Research & Teaching Fields
- Applied linguistics, acquisition of Japanese
as a second language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism
Selected Publications
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Mori, Junko and Ohta, Amy Snyder (Eds.) (2008). Japanese Applied Linguistics. London; New York: Continuum.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder (expected in 2007). Laughter and foreign language development: A view from the classroom. In Junko Mori and Amy Snyder Ohta (Eds.), Japanese Applied Linguistics. New York: Continuum.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder (2006). The Zone of Proximal Development and Second Language Acquisition: Beyond Social Interaction. In Asako Yoshitomi, Tae Umino and Masashi Negishi (Eds.) Readings in Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Pedagogy in a Japanese Context (pp. 155-178). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder (2005). Interlanguage pragmatics in the zone of proximal development. System, 33(3), 503-517.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder and Foster, Pauline (2005). Negotiation for meaning and peer assistance in second language classrooms. Applied Linguistics, 26(3), pp. 402-430.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder (2005). Confirmation checks: A discourse analytic reanalysis. Japanese Language & Literature, 39, pp. 383-412.
- Ohta, Amy Snyder (2001). Second Language
Acquisition Processes in the Classroom: Learning
Japanese. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Current Research Projects
- Study of the bilingual development of children
in Japanese dual-language (kokusai kekkon) families
in North America.
- Japanese (as a foreign language) classroom
interaction and language acquisition
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Courses Taught
- Japan 343
- Japan 443
- Asian 510/518
- Asian 503
- Japan 540
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