Chikako Takahashi
Lecturer in Japanese
Office: 520 Kent Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00 – 5:00
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: ct2423@columbia.edu
Educational Background
PhD: Linguistics, Stony Brook University
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
Classes Taught
JPNS 1002 Introductory Japanese B
JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS2201 Second Year Japanese I
JPNS2202 Second Year Japanese II
Research Interests
Second Language Phonetics Learning
Use of Discord for Language Classrooms
Language Learning Strategies and Motivation
Chikako Takahashi holds a PhD in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Her dissertation research focused on how speakers’ pronunciation and perception of their first and second (or third) languages are influenced by their language learning experiences. Currently, her research focuses on how the use of online community platforms such as Discord can help create a learner community for language classes. She is also interested in how instructors can inform learners and provide opportunities to foster language learning strategies and elicit lasting motivation. Prior to coming to Columbia, she taught Japanese courses at the Japan Society as well as linguistic courses—such as Phonetics and Phonology, Sociolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition—at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at various institutions.
Publications
Journal Publications (Peer-reviewed)
Takahashi, C. (2024). L1 Japanese Perceptual Drift in Late Learners of L2 English. Languages 9: 0.
Takahashi, C. (2019). No transposition in Harmonic Serialism, Phonology, 36, 4.
Proceedings Papers
Takahashi, C. and Yagi, M. (2025). Fostering a learner community with collaboration apps and AI tools outside of the classroom: the case with Discord. Proceedings of The 31st Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, 100-112, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Takahashi, C. (2018). No Metathesis in Harmonic Serialism. In Gallagher, G., Gouskova, M., and S. Yin, (eds.), Supplemental proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/amp.v5i0.4232.
Takahashi, C. (2017). Information Structure of Japanese Ditransitives. In Funakoshi, K., S. Kawahara, and C. Tancredi, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 24, Stanford; CSLI Publications
Kao, S., Hwang, J., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., and E. Broselow, (2016). International teaching assistants’ production of focus intonation. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, Acoustic Society of America
Recent Presentations
Chikako Takahashi and Mihoko Yagi, Fostering a learner community with collaboration apps and AI tools outside of the classroom: the case with Discord, 31st Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, 2025, Princeton NJ.
Chikako Takahashi and Mihoko Yagi, Building Inclusive and Engaging Learning Communities through Technology: The Case of Discord in Beginner Japanese Courses, Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology, 2025, Zoom Conference.
Kyoko Matsui Loetscher, Naoko Sourial, and Chikako Takahashi, Curriculum Reform to
Foster Multiliteracies, International Conference on Japanese Language Education – North
America, August 1-3, 2024, Wisconsin, Madison.
Kyoko Matsui Loetscher, Naoko Sourial, and Chikako Takahashi, Report on Blended-learning Model in Elementary Japanese Courses – toward fostering learning agency, AATJ Spring Conference, March 16, 2023, Boston.
Chikako Takahashi, L1 vowel perceptual drift as a result of L2 vowel learning: L1 Japanese -L2 English bilinguals’ perception of high front vowels. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 6-9, 2022, Washington, DC.
