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Tomoko Takami

Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Japanese Language Program

 

Education:     M.S. University of Pennsylvania, 1996

 

Research Interests:

My research interests include Language for Specific Purposes, Second Language Acquisition, and Sociolinguistics.


Selected Publications:

"Building Connections between Language and Culture Learning: A Hybrid Curriculum Model for More Effective Business Language Instruction.” (Forthcoming). In M. Gueldry (Eds), Walt the Talk: Integrating Languages and Cultures in /for the Professions. The Edwin Mellen Press.

"Employing International Business Cases for Business Language Instruction” (Forthcoming). Global Business Languages.

"Integrating Language and Content: A Case Study of Intermediate Japanese for Professions.” (2005). In R. Jourdenais, & S. Springer (Eds.), Content, tasks and projects in the language classroom: 2004 conference proceedings (pp. 69-77). Monterey, CA: Monterey Institute of International Studies.

"A Study on Closing Section of Japanese Telephone Conversation.” (2002). Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, vol. 18. Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania

 

Affiliations/Activities:

  • Coordinator of Japanese for Specific Purposes (JSP), Special Interest Group at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ)
  • Certified ACTFL OPI Tester in Japanese



Prizes/Awards/Fellowships:

  • First Annual Business Language Research and Teaching Grant, from CIBER Consortium for Business Language Research and Teaching, 2007-2008
  • SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant from the University of Pennsylvania, 2007
  • SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant from the University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • Rotary Foundation Academic-year Ambassadorial Scholar, 1994-1995
         

Courses:

Beginning Japanese I and II (JPAN 011, 012). Beginning Japanese III and IV(JPAN 111, 112), Intensive Beginning Japanese I and II (JPAN 021, 022), Intermediate Japanese I and II (JPAN 211, 222) Japanese for Professions I and II (JPAN 381, 382)

         
           
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