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Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor

M231 Gowen Hall
Box 353521
Seattle, WA 98195-3521
(206) 543-6315; Fax (206) 685-4268
aohta@u.washington.edu

 
Amy Snyder Ohta
     

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

  • Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives. Co-edited with Junko Mori. (2008) London: Continuum.
  • Second Language Acquisition Processes in the Classroom: Learning Japanese. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
  • Limitations of social interaction in second language acquisition: Learner “voices” and mediation in the zone of proximal development. In Paul Seedhouse (Ed.), Conceptualising ‘Learning’ in Applied Linguistics. London: Multilingual Matters, Forthcoming.
  • Laughter and second language acquisition: A study of Japanese foreign language classes. In Mori, Junko and Ohta, Amy Snyder (Eds.) Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives. New York:
    Continuum, 2008.
  • 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, 2006.
  • Interlanguage pragmatics in the zone of proximal development. System, 2006, 33(3), 503-517.
  • Negotiation for meaning and peer assistance in second language classrooms. Coauthored with Pauline Foster. Applied Linguistics, 2005, 26(3), pp. 402-430.
  • Confirmation checks: A discourse analytic reanalysis. Japanese Language & Literature, 2005, 39, pp. 383-412.

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
 

Courses Taught

  • Japan 343
  • Japan 443
  • Asian 510/518
  • Asian 503
  • Japan 540

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Recent Publication:

Japanese applied linguistics

 

     

 

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