Keynote Speakers
Prof. Michio Tsutsui (University of Washington)
『これまでの日本語教育と今後の方策・方向 』
Prof. Junko Mori (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
『Liberal Arts Education in the Era of Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Japanese Language Programs 』
Speaker Profiles
Professor Emeritus Michio Tsutsui (Dept. of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington) is the former Director of UW’s Technical Japanese Program and was a Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, teaching in its Master’s Program in Japanese Language Pedagogy.
Tsutsui joined the University of Washington’s College of Engineering in 1990 where he developed and launched the Technical Japanese Program (TJP), a first-of-its-kind inter-engineering master’s program. He directed and taught in the program until his retirement in 2015. During his tenure at UW, Tsutsui was also active in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). He developed several software applications for purposes such as self-conversation practice and oral performance evaluation, including Language Partner Online, an application widely used with the Japanese language textbook Jookyuu e no Tobira, which he co-authored.
Tsutsui’s research interests include Japanese linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Japanese for Specific Purposes, CALL, and international technical communication. His publications include A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (1986), A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar (1995), A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (2008), Jookyuu e no Tobira [main text and three accompanying volumes (2009 – 2012)], and numerous book chapters and articles in Japanese linguistics, Japanese pedagogy, and CALL. Additionally, he has co-edited three volumes (collections of research papers) in Japanese linguistics and Japanese language pedagogy, including Nihongo-kyooiku no Atarashii Chihei o Hiraku (2014).
Prof. Junko MoriJunko Mori is professor of Japanese language and linguistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective Expressions and Turn Construction (John Benjamins) and co-editor of Japanese Applied Linguistics (with Amy S. Ohta, Continuum). By using the sociological methodology of conversation analysis, she has investigated the relationship between linguistic structures and organizations of social interaction, classroom discourse, and intercultural communication. Her most recent project explores the impact of globalization of higher education upon world language education. Her work has appeared in a number of edited volumes and journals such as Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Annals, Modern Language Journal, and Research on Language and Social Interaction. She is a recipient of ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has assumed a number of administrative roles, including the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature (2008-2011), and the director of the UW-Madison Language Institute (2011-2013), and the director of the interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition (2011-2013, 2014-2016). This current academic year, she is chairing a committee charged to propose and implement the restructuring of Asia-related departments and academic programs.