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Andrew Plaks

Andrew Plaks

Associate Adjunct Professor

Email: ap3606@columbia.edu

Educational Background

AB: Princeton University (’67)
PhD: Princeton University (’73)

Research Interests

Chinese and Japanese Classical Literature

Selected Publications

Pu Andi Zixuanji (Collected Works of Andrew Plaks). Beijing: Sanlian shuju (2011)

“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?,” in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006).

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng,” Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp. 117-35

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003)

Asami Tsuda

Asami Tsuda

LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Office: Kent 518
Office hours: MR 2:00-3:00, or by appointment
Teaching hours: MTWR: 11:40 – 12:45, 4:10 – 5:15
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: at3053@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy, University of Toronto
BA: East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I

Research Interests

Japanese Pronunciation
Japanese Phonetics

Asami Tsuda has taught beginner to advanced Japanese language courses in Japan, Canada and the USA. She has developed several advanced courses including Business Japanese at the University of British Columbia. She is also a core member of a project team that is developing a visual pronunciation tool. The project is called “Multimodal approaches to the empowerment of pronunciation teaching and learning: Creating online interactive tutorial videos”, and is funded by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund at the University of British Columbia. The materials are open to the public and can be found at: http://enunciate.arts.ubc.ca/

Publications

Book chapter Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next-Generation Education “Implementing a Flipped Classroom in Teaching Second Language Pronunciation: Challenges, Solutions, and Expectations” (IGI Global, 2016; co-author)
“Ultrasound-enhanced Multimodal Approaches to Pronunciation Teaching and Learning” (Canadian Acoustics, 2015)
“Application of Ultrasound to Japanese Pronunciation Teaching” (Proceedings 2014 CAJLE, Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 2014)

Naofumi Tatsumi

Naofumi Tatsumi

LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Office: 516 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTW 1:30-2:30
Teaching Hours: MTWR 10:10-11:15, 4:10-5:15; MW 11:40-12:45
Phone: (212)854-5500
Email: nt2358@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Japanese Linguistics, Purdue University
MA: TESOL, University of Southern Mississippi
BA: Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I

Research Interests

Japanese Pragmatics
Compliment Responses

Naofumi Tatsumi specializes in Japanese pragmatics and earned his PhD from Purdue University in 2012. His dissertation is entitled, “Compliment responses: Comparing American learners of Japanese, native Japanese speakers, and American native English speakers.”

Publications

Compliment responses: L2 learners’ rationales behind their responses (Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE), 2015)
Teaching Japanese popular culture via otaku (Proceedings of the SecondTeaching Japan Conference: Between ‘Cool’ and 3-11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today, in press)
American learners’ compliment responses in Japanese (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ 22), 2010)
Japanese loanwords in English (Proceedings of the First Annual Graduate Research Conference, 2007)