Fumiko Nazikian

Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Director of External Relations (Japanese Language Program)

Office: 516 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/R 3:00-4:00, or by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: fn2108@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Japanese Linguistics, University of Sydney
MA: Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Pedagogy, Australian National University

Classes Taught

JPN UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1101 & UN1102 First Year Japanese
JPNS UN2201 & UN2202 Second Year Japanese
JPNS UN3005 & UN3006 Third Year Japanese
JPNS GU4017 & GU4018 Fourth Year Japanese
JPNS G4010 & G4214 Japanese Language Pedagogy

Research Interests

Japanese Linguistics (pragmatics)
Language Pedagogy

Fumiko Nazikian joined Columbia University in 2004, serving as the Director of the Japanese Language Program until the Spring of 2015. In addition to teaching regular language courses, she is a regular instructor in the Columbia Summer M.A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy. Prior to her time at Columbia, she spent 16 years as a Senior Lecturer at Princeton University. She has also taught at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales.

Her research interests lie in linguistic pragmatics, with a focus on discourse analysis and the connections between linguistics and language pedagogy. She has served as a reviewer for the AP Japanese Language and Culture Course and has been a committee member for the Japanese SAT.

She has also reviewed for publications such as AATJ Journal, Japanese Language and Literature, Journal of Japanese Linguistics (JJL), Pragmatics, and Journal of Pragmatics. From 2008 to 2012, she was a board member of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) and co-directed the AATJ Spring Conference from 2020 to 2022.

Publications

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese (co-editor, Routledge, 2023)

Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching: The Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age (co-editor, Routledge, 2021)

“Sentence final particle, yone as an ‘involvement’ marker” in Natural Conversation Analysis in Japanese: Elucidating human communication through the BTSJ Natural Conversation Corpus (ed. M. Usami, Kuroshio Press, 2020)

“Yone as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Blog Messages: An Epistemic and Evaluative Stance” in the Journal of Communication and Media Studies, Vol. 5 (2019)

“How to Develop ’21st Century Skills’ in Foreign Language Education” in Japanese Language and Literature Vol. 50 (co-author, AATJ, 2016)

“Robots can talk—but can they teach?” (Walter de Gruyter, 2015)

Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide & Modern Japanese Workbook (co-author, Routledge, 2014)

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (co-author, Routledge, 2011)

“The Role of Style-Shifting in the Functions and Purposes of Storytelling: Detective Stories in Anime” (Georgetown University Press, 2010)

“Bringing learners’ perspectives into assessments: Self and peer Assessments in a Blog project” in the AATJ Special Issue of Japanese Language and Literature: Japanese Pedagogy  (co-author, AATJ, 2008)

“Danwa ni okeru jootai no kinoo nitsuite[On discourse functions of da detached style in Japanese]” (Kuroshio Press, 2007)

“Developing Learners’ Communication Skills through Story-Writing in Japanese Language Teaching” (co-author, Princeton University, 2007)

Genkokyoiku no Shintenkai [New Perspectives on Language Teaching]  (co-editor, Hitsuji-shobo, 2005)

Kyoko Matsui Loetscher

Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Director of the Japanese Language Program

Office: 514 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 4:00-5:00
Phone: (212) 854-3523
Email: kml2168@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Second Language Acquisition, Ohio State University
BA: English Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I
JPNS UN3006 Third Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Content-Based Instruction

Kyoko Matsui Loetscher joined Columbia University in 2010. Before joining Columbia, she taught at Princeton University for 8 years including Princeton Summer Program in Ishikawa. She developed curriculum and teaching materials for 4th and 5th year Japanese course based on Content-Based Instruction while teaching at Princeton. She is currently working on creating new teaching materials for Third Year Japanese.

Publications

Shokyuu Nihongo no moji purojekuto [Japanese Orthography Project] (with Shinji Sato and Yuri Kumagai; 2016)

Shigeru Eguchi

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 518 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:00
Phone: (212) 854-8345
Email: se53@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Teaching of English, Ibaraki University
MA: Japanese Pedagogy, University of Iowa

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4017 Fourth Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4018 Fourth Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy
Japanese Grammar

Shigeru Eguchi has taught all levels of Japanese at Columbia University. He is also the Administrative Director of the Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy since 2006. He has over a dozen years of experience teaching Japanese at Columbia, and also taught at Middlebury College’s Summer Program in Japanese, and at the Hokkaido International Foundation. He has developed teaching lessons based on unusual and creative materials, including haiku and video projects. He is currently developing new textbooks for intermediate level (Routledge, 2011) with Dr. Fumiko Nazikian, and other colleagues.

Publications

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (Routledge, 2011; co-authors: Miharu Nittono, Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Okamoto, Jisuk Park)
Schaum’s Outlines-Japanese Vocabulary(McGraw-Hill Company, 2000; co-author)
“Exploration through “Hiyaku”: Considering Authenticity of Context”, 17th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (2011)