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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)
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) Japanese BA exit survey results (Spring 2009)	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 (オハナ) (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, 2009)	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日本英語検定協会 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	References for 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 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)

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