A. Teaching at UHM

  • Associate Professor and Graduate Gaculty of Japanese (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment)
    Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Affiliated Graduate Faculty for the PhD program in Second Language Studies
    Department of Second Language Studies

B. Visiting faculty

  • Summer, 2002-2007. A visiting faculty in the TESOL program at Temple University, Japan.

C. Assessment/testing consultation

  • 2007. Testing Consultant. University of Oregon. Review test specifications and sample items in developing the university’s online Japanese proficiency test
  • 2002 Assessment Consultant. Hawaii Department of Education. Assist the development of K-5 Benchmarks, assessment tasks, and classroom strategies.
  • 2002 Consultant. Assist NSEP (National Security Education Program) Language Project.
  • 2000 - 02 Testing Consultant. Hawaii Department of Education. Assist DOE's Pilot Standards-Based Japanese language program, funded by a Title VII Federal Foreign Language Assistant Grant.

D. Dissertation/thesis committees and student advising

Within the Department
Doctoral Dissertation Committees
1. Present (since 2006). Adviser (Waka Tominaga, Japanese Linguistics)
2. Present (since 2008). Interim Adviser (Mari Ushiyama, Japanese Linguistics)
3. Present (since 2005). Interim adviser (Alfred Burch, Japanese Linguistics)
4. Present (since 2007). Committee member (Ka Wong, Chinese Linguistics)
5. Present (since 2006). Committee member (Kaoru Murakami, Japanese Linguistics)
6. Present (since 2005). Committee member (Asuka Suzuki, Japanese Linguistics)
7. Present (since 2003). Committee member (Reiko Nishikawa, Japanese Linguistics)
8. Present (since 2003). Committee member (Emi Murayama, Japanese Linguistics)
9. Present (since 2004). Committee member (Tomoko Iwai, Japanese Linguistics)
10. Present (since 2004). Committee member (Ritsuko Narita, Japanese Linguistics)
11. Present (since 2006).Committee member (Jong Myung Hong, Korean Lingusitcs)
12. Present (since 2006). Committee member (William Hyun Sung Yu, Korean Linguistics)
13. Present (since 2007). Committee member (Cade Bushnell Japanese Linguistics)
14. 2004-2007. Committee member (Dong-kwan Kong, Korean Linguistics)
15. 2003-2005. Committee member (Hi-sun Helen Kim, Korean Linguistics)
16. 2002-2005. Committee member for (Keiko Kitade, Japanese Linguistics)
17. 2003. Committee member (Yuan Tian, Chinese Linguistics)

MA-level Committees and Advising
1. 2007-present. Adviser (Masumi Hamda, Japanese Linguistics)
2. 2005-2008. Thesis Adviser (YukikoYamaguchi, Japanese Linguistics)
3. 2003-2005. Thesis Adviser (Waka Tominaga, Japanese Linguistics)
4. 2006-2008. Thesis Adviser (Saori Hoshi, Japanese Linguistics)
5. 2003-2005. Thesis committee member (Chitose Ahiko, Japanese Linguistics)
6. 2006-2008. Adviser (Mari Ushiyama, Japanese Linguistics)
7. 2006-2008. Adviser (Susan Kuwabara, Japanese Linguistics)
8. 2005. Exam committee member (Mayumi Shirakawa, Japanese Linguistics)
9. 2003-2005. Adviser (Alfred Burch, Japanese Linguistics)
10. 2005. Exam committee member (Kari Levin, Japanese Linguistics)
11. 2005. Exam committee member (Yasuko T. Kobayashi, Japanese Linguistics)
12. 2005. Exam committee member (Karori Nakamachi, Japanese Linguistics)
13. 2004. Exam committee member (Rino Kawase, Japanese Linguistics)
14. 2003. Exam committee member (Takako Toth, Japanese Linguistics)
15. 2002-2003. Thesis committee member (Linda Lanz, Japanese Linguistics)
16. 2001-2002. Thesis committee member (William Yu, Korean Linguistics)
17. 2000-2001. Thesis committee member (Asuka Suzuki, Japanese Linguistics)

Honors Student Committees.
1. 2005-06. Committee chair (Ganir Paul, Japanese BA)

Within the College/University
Doctoral Dissertation and MA Thesis Committees
1. 2004-2007. ) Outside membe, PhD dissertation (Martyn Clark, Department of Second Language Studies) “Listening placement test development and analysis from a Rasch perspective”
2. 2005-2007. Outside member, PhD dissertation (Tomomi Hasegawa, Department of Second Language Studies) “Reexamining the critical period hypothesis in very early child L2 acquisition of Japanese: The uninevitability of native-like attainment”
3. Present (since 2005). Outside member, PhD dissertation (Hye-sun Cho, Department of Second Language Studies)
4. 2001-2004. Outside member, MA thesis (Tomoko Kudo, College of Education)
International Doctoral Dissertation Committees
1. 2007. Committee member (Eri Banno, TESOL program, TUJ, Investigating oral placement tests for learners of Japanese as a second language).
2. 2007. Committee member (Akiko, Katayama, TESOL program, TUJ, Borderland discourses of first-year Junior college English majors in Japan: A situated qualitative study).
3. 2007. Committee member (Taiko Tsuchihira, TESOL program, TUJ, The dimensionality of an English listening test).
4. 2006. Committee member (James Sick, TESOL program, TUJ, The learners’ contribution: A study of individual differences in language learning in a Japanese high school).
5. 2006. Committee member (Sumie Matsuno, TESOL program, TUJ, Self-, peer, and teacher-assessment in Japanese university EFL writing classrooms).
6. 2005. Committee member (Yoko Sekigawa, TESOL program, TUJ).
7. 2005. Committee member (Reiko Matsuoka, TESOL program, TUJ).
8. 2005. Committee member (Toshiko Sugino, TESOL program, TUJ).
9. 2003-2005. External committee member (Amanda Fincher, EdD. program, Griffith University, Australia).
10. 2004. Committee member (Albert Dudley, TESOL program, TUJ).
11. 2003. Committee member (Edward J. Schaefer, TESOL program, TUJ).
12. 2003. Committee member (Robert M. Baines, TESOL program, TUJ).
13. 2002. Committee member (Hiromasa Tanaka, ESOL program, TUJ).
14. 2002. Committee member (Yuri Hosoda, TESOL program, TUJ).
15. 2002. Committee member (Soo-Im Lee, TESOL program, TUJ).