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Hironori Nishi, Ph.D. President, Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of World Languages and Literatures University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152 [email protected] SEATJ Homepage: http://seatj.weebly.com/ |
Keynote Speech
Why Affirming Students’ Speaker Legitimacy Matters: Lessons from L2 Speakers Living in Japan
Dr. Jae DiBello Takeuchi, Clemson University
Dr. Jae DiBello Takeuchi is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Clemson University and a recipient of the 2018 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Japanese Language Teaching. After completing an undergraduate degree in Japanese at the University of Minnesota, she lived and worked in Ehime, Japan for 12 years. During that time, she taught English and worked as a translator and interpreter. Living first in a small fishing village and later in a mid-sized regional city, she often noticed how people switched back and forth between standard Japanese and the local dialect. Her observations and experiences with local speakers and other foreign residents then became the foundation for her research interests when she returned to the states to pursue a Ph.D in Japanese linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests include Japanese sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Japanese as a Foreign Language. She is especially interested in Japanese language learners and how they navigate the various speech styles of the Japanese language. At Clemson University, she teaches Japanese language and linguistics, Japanese professional communication, and courses on Japanese culture. In her free time, she enjoys playing the piano and walking in the local botanical gardens.
Sponsors
- The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles
- Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
- Japan-US Friendship Commission
- FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis
- Office of the Provost, The University of Memphis
- Department of World Languages and Literatures, The University of Memphis