Asami Tsuda

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: Kent 518
Office hours: MR 2:00-3:00, or by appointment
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

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 516 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30
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)

Jisuk Park

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 520 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:30 – 2:30pm
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: jp2194@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy, University of Madison-Wisconsin
BA: Irish Literature, University of Aichi Shukutoku

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN2201 Second-Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I
JPNS UN3006 Third Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4017 Fourth-Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4018 Fourth-Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Social Networking Approach
Project-Based Learning

Jisuk Park joined Columbia faculty in 2002, and has taught Japanese at all levels. During her time at Columbia, Ms. Park has been a member of the review committee for First, Second and Fourth-Year Japanese materials, and took part in a team that worked on the development and revision of various course materials at Columbia University.

In 2011, she co-authored the published text “Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course, Routledge, 2011”. Ms. Park also taught Intermediate Japanese at Princeton University’s Ishikawa Summer Intensive Program as well as two summers at the Hokkaido International Foundation.

Selected Publications

“How to Develop “21st Century Skills” in Foreign Language Education” (the American Association of Teachers of Japanese journal “Japanese Language and Literature,” 2016; co-author: Fumiko Nazikian)

“How to Connect with Others, Things and Information outside of Classroom” (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 2016)

“「他者の発見」「自己の発見」「つながりの実現」を目指して：　「３X３＋３」を指標にした日本語上級者のためのポスターセッションプロジェクト” (Social Networking Approach and Japanese Language Education, Tokyo, 2016; co-author: Fumiko Nazikian)

“Towards the Acquisition of a “Comprehensive Communicative Ability: The Use of a Communicative Ability Index (Can-Do Statements) in Project-Based Learning” (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 2014)

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (Routledge, 2011; co-authors: Shigeru Eguchi, Miharu Nittono, Fumiko Nazikian, Jisuk Park)