Researcher

My Expertise

Spoken Discourse Analysis (gender, overlap, listener responses); Japanese popular culture; Japanese language education

Fields of Research (FoR)

Japanese language, Asian cultural studies, Language studies, Discourse and pragmatics

Biography

Born in Kyoto, Japan.  BEd Osaka University of Education, MA in Linguistics, Graduate Diploma in HIgher Education, PhD in Linguistics, UNSW.


My Qualifications

BEd, Osaka University of Education MA, UNSW Grad. Cert. in Higher Education, UNSW, PhD, UNSW


My Awards

2013 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of New South Wales.

2012 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student...view more

Born in Kyoto, Japan.  BEd Osaka University of Education, MA in Linguistics, Graduate Diploma in HIgher Education, PhD in Linguistics, UNSW.


My Qualifications

BEd, Osaka University of Education MA, UNSW Grad. Cert. in Higher Education, UNSW, PhD, UNSW


My Awards

2013 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of New South Wales.

2012 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning,  Australian Awards for University Teaching (as UNSW Japanese Studies Team)

2011 The Dean's Learning and Teaching Award for Excellence in the Application of TELT, Faculty of Arts, The University of New South Wales.


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Japanese Spoken Discourse Analysis; Post WWII ~contemporary Japanese Popular Culture: Japanese Language education and Japanese popular culture


My Engagement

Japanese Studies Association of Australia

The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

Interviewee for an article about Video games for Japanese female players in Hyper Vol 241, November 2013

Author of 'International Education at UNSW' JASSO(Japan Student Services Organization) Web magazine, Ryugaku Kouryuu [Study Abroad Association] December 2013


My Teaching

Intermediate Japanese A/B
Japan in Popular Culture
Learning Japanese by Manga and Anime
Approaches to Japanese Discourse Analysis

Honours supervision topics:

2020 Cannon Anime
2016 Visual Representation: Hoe image icon of sport teams are perceived by Japanese and Australians
2013 Transnationality and the consumption of Japaense popular music
2011 Identity of Gal in Japan 
2010 North Korean Education of Japan
2008 Current Trend of the Debayashi in Rakugo
2008 Efficacy of Questions Assessing Student Science LIteracy: case study of
a Japanese and New South Wales primary school

PhD Supervision topic:
2013 An Investigation of Japanese foreign language learners' out-of-classroom online learning processes (joint-supervision)

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Location

272 Morven Brown

Contact

+61-2-9065-5331