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Interim Associate Dean

College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature

University of Hawai`i at Mānoa

 

Associate Professor of Japanese

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

 

My Curriculum Vitae (click here)

RESEARCH (click here)

Publications and conference/workshop presentations

 

 

 

Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean Heritage Language Students: Curriculum Needs, Materials, and Assessment (2008). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/ Taylor & Francis. 346 pp.  

 

 

 

TEACHING (click here)

Undergraduate Courses Taught at UHM include

• Special Japanese for bilingual students (JPN 307/308) 

• Project work in Japanese (JPN 493)  

  Reading in original texts (JPN 407B) 

 

 

Graduate Courses Taught at UHM include

• Introduction to Japanese language pedagogy (JPN 604)

• Research methodology in Japanese linguistics and language teaching (JPN 605)

Teaching practicum in Japanese language (JPN 620) 

  Materials development: Spoken Japanese (JPN 650P) 

  Research seminar in Japanese linguistics (JPN 730P)

 

 

ADVISING & SERVICE 

Dissertation/Thesis Committees (click here)  

 

Editorial service (click here) 

 

Editorial advisory board

Editorial service for professional journals

Conference proposal review

Assessment consultation

 

Narrative essay (book in Japanese)

  

OHANA () (2007)

ADMINISTRATIVE LINKS

v      HSL requirements & Back credits

-Back credits petition form

v      The HSL requirement waiver petition forms

-Languages taught at LLL

-Languages not taught at LLL 

v      UHM registration

v      UHM catalog

v      Course proposal forms 

v      Graduate division course proposal guidelines

v      UHM Assessment Office

v      Writing intensive faculty resources

v      UHM Institutional Research Office

 

SECOND language proficiency tests 

v          Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (The Center for Applied Second Language Studies)   

v          ACTFL oral proficiency interview: The Results of Japanese ACTFL Oral Proficiency Tests  2008-09 AY (Project funded by the National Resource Center East Asia grant  2006-2010)

v          The Foreign Language Achievement Testing Service  

v          STEP

v          Japanese language proficiency test

v          The Computer-Adaptive Test for Reading Chinese (CATRC)

v           Southeast Asian languages proficiency examinations

RESOURCE LINKS 

v    ERIC

v    UHM Library

v  Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom

v  Global Language Portfolio

v  Teacher Portfolios

v  National Heritage Language Resource Center

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

   American Association of Applied Linguistics

   American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

   The Association of Teachers of Japanese

   Hawaii Association of Language Teachers

   日本語教育学会

   JTMとくしま日本語ネットワーク

   日本語OPI研究会

LLL EXIT SURVEYS  

 

1. College of LLL Program evaluation project

2. UHM College of LLL Degrees earned by field of study (2006-2008)

3. Recommendations for maximizing survey response rates

 

recent reports & articles

v      The MLA Fall 2006 Language Enrollment Survey

v      Foreign languages and higher education: New structures for a changed world  

v      Foreign language teaching in the U.S. schools: Results of a national suvey

 

©2008 Kim i Kondo-Brown 

Office: Bilger 101, Phone: (808) 956-7193, email: kondo@hawaii.edu