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Interim Associate Dean

College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Associate Professor of Japanese

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

 

My background (click here)

Curent projects & research interests

v    The Japanese language assessment project funded by the National Resource Center East Asia (NRCEA) at UHM

v    The Japanese OPI test data collected in Dec/Nov, 2008 (funded by the NRCEA and College of LLL) 

v    Heritage language development and instruction

v    College of LLL Program evaluation project

v    Motivation and reading ability development

recent reports & articles to read

v      Fall 2006 foreign language enrollments in universities and colleges in Hawaii: By institution (The MLA Fall 2006 Language Enrollment Survey)

v      Foreign languages and higher education: New structures for a changed world (The MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages, 2007)

 

RESEARCH (click here)

    Publications and conference/workshop presentations

 

 

 

New!

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: humanities (JPN 407C) 

 

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)

 

Graduate Summer Courses Taught at Temple University Japan (2002-2007)

ADVISING & SERVICE 

Dissertation/Thesis Committees (click here)  

 

    Editorial service (click here) 

 

Editorial advisory board

Editorial service for professional journals

Conference proposal review

Assessment consultation

 

CREATIVE WRITING (book in Japanese)

  

OHANA (ナ) (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

v      Manoa Experience Day – LLL Open House (Nov, 2008)

SECOND language proficiency tests 

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

v     ACTFL oral proficiency interview

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

   

    JTMとくしま日本語ネットワーク

    OPI

References for LLL exit surveys

 

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

2. Recommendations for maximizing survey response rates

 

PHOTOS

 

2008年夏)                          200年夏)阿波踊り(徳島県)

東大寺の大仏(奈良県)         踊るあほうに見るあほう、

同じアホなら踊らにゃそん、そ~ん♪!

©2008 Kimi Kondo-Brown 

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