PhD (Northumbria, UK), MA (Birmingham, UK), BEd (Osaka Kyoiku, Japan)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
I am a Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Linguistics. I teach various levels of Japanese language modules as well as academic modules in linguistics such as Intercultural Communication and Analysing Media Texts (Critical Discourse Analysis).
I am also acting as Programme Lead for Japanese, looking after the undergraduate students on Japanese programmes.
My research interests are in the area of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and educational linguistics, especially on the topics of multilingualism, family language planning and maintenance, and language issues relating to culture and identity. I am also interested in practical application of plurilithic concept of language (e.g. idiolectal repertoire and translanguaging/languaging) into Japanese language education.
I’m a convener of Special Interest Group, 日本語教育における「日本語の多様性」勉強会 [‘‘Diversity of Japanese Language’ in Japanese language education SIG] , at British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ), and I’m also on an editorial board on BATJ Journal.
Areas of expertise: multilingualism, family language planning and maintenance, language issues relating to culture and identity, linguistic ethnography, critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics.
I’m teaching Japanese language modules at various levels, such as:
- BA (level 4): Japanese for Communication 1 and 2
- BA (level 6): Japanese for Professional Purposes
I also teach linguistics modules, such as:
- BA (level 5): Intercultural Communication
- BA (level 5): Analysing Media Discourse
- BA (level 6): Dissertation
Recent publications
- Member of The Centre for Language and Social Justice Research (LSJ), York St John University
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
- Member, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
- Member, British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ)
- Special Interest Group [SIG] Convener, 日本語教育における「日本語の多様性」勉強会 [‘‘Diversity of Japanese Language’ in Japanese language education SIG], British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ)
- Editorial member: BATJ Journal
- Member, QAA [the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education]
- 2022 onward Member, Widening Participation Languages Network
- Project member (research): The Motivations and Outcomes of Study Abroad among UK undergraduates studying Japanese and Korean Languages
