Mayumi Nishida
Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese
Office: 518 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Phone: (212) 854-8345
Email: mn2136@columbia.edu
Educational Background
Ed.M: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
BA: English Literature, Doshisha University
Classes Taught
Research Interests
Japanese Linguistics; Japanese Pedagogy
Mayumi Nishida has been an adjunct professor in Japanese at Fordham University and Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Ms. Nishida was previously a senior instructor at the Japan Society where she created and developed various courses such as advanced reading courses, Kanji courses, teachers training courses. She also served as principal and taught all-level classes as well as provided corporate training programs at her private institution Language House LLC.
Publications
Teaching Kanji from Basic to Advanced Level to Enhance Students’ Autonomy: With the Emphasis on Meaning, Visual Image and Structure Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England (JLTANE), Boston University, MA, May 5, 2019
A Pictorial Guide to Kanji: Photographic Images Showing the Actual Meanings of Bushu, Onpu and Shokei-moji Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 13, 2013
Innovating a Pedagogically Effective Kanji Learner’s Dictionary: A Semantic and Structural Approach (co-presenter: Jerome Barnett) Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 8, 2010
