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)