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
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Courses Taught
- Japan 343
- Japan 443
- Asian 510/518
- Asian 503
- Japan 540
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