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K., & Brown, J.D. (Eds.). (January, 2008). Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean heritage language students:
Curriculum needs, materials, and assessment. (ESL & Applied Linguistics
Professional series.)
Brown,
J.D., & Kondo-Brown, K. (Eds.) (December, 2006). Perspectives on teaching connected speech: To second language speakers.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (Ed.). (December, 2006). Heritage language development: Focus on East
Asian immigrants. (Studies in
Bilingualism Series 32).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (forthcoming). Challenges and recommendations for teaching university-level
heritage students in East Asian languages. ADFL
Bulletin.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (forthcoming). Curriculum development for advancing heritage language
competence: Recent research, innovations, and a future agenda. The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2006). How do English L1 learners of advanced Japanese infer unknown kanji
words in authentic texts?" Language
Learning, 56, 109-153.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2006). Affective factors and Japanese L2 reading ability. Reading in a Foreign Language, 18, 55-70.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2005). Differences in language skills: Heritage language learner subgroups
and foreign language learners. The Modern Language Journal, 89, 563-581
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2004). Investigating interviewer-candidate interactions during oral
interviews for child L2 learners. Foreign Language Annals, 37, 602-615.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2004). Do background variables predict students' scores on a Japanese
placement test?: Implications for placing heritage language learners. Journal of the National Council of Less
Commonly Taught Languages, 1, 1-19.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2003). Heritage language instruction for post-secondary students from
immigrant backgrounds. Heritage Language Journal, 1,1-25.
Kondo-Brown,
K (2003). A longitudinal evaluation study on child JFL learners’ oral performances.
Japanese Language and Literature, 36, 171-199.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2002). An analysis of rater bias with FACETS in measuring Japanese L2
writing performance. Language Testing, 19, 1-29.
Kondo-Brown,
K (2001). Heritage language students of Japanese in traditional foreign
language classes: A preliminary empirical study. Japanese Language and
Literature, 35(2), 157-180.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2001). Effects of three types of practice in teaching Japanese verbs of
giving and receiving. Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language, 4,
82-115.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2000). Acculturation and identity of bilingual heritage students of
Japanese in
Kondo,
K. (1999). Motivating bilingual university students of Japanese: An analysis of
language learning persistence and intensity among students from immigrant
backgrounds. Foreign Language Annals, 32, 77-88.
Kondo,
K. (1998). The paradox of
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K. (I998). Social-psychological factors affecting language maintenance:
Interviews with Shin Nisei university students. Linguistics and Education,
9, 369-408.
Kondo-Brown,
K. (forthcoming). Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
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K. (2008). Issues and future agendas for teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
heritage students. In K. Kondo-Brown & J.D. Brown (Eds.), Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean
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Kondo-Brown,
K., & Fukuda, C. (2008). A separate-track for advanced heritage language
students?: Japanese inter-sentential referencing. In K. Kondo-Brown & J.D.
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assessment (PP. 135-156).
Brown,
J. D., & Kondo-Brown, K. (2006). Introducing connected speech. In J.D.
Brown & K. Kondo-Brown (Eds.), Perspectives
on teaching connected speech: To second language speakers (pp. 1-16).
Brown,
J.D. & Kondo-Brown, K. (2006). Testing reduced forms. In J.D. Brown &
K. Kondo-Brown (Eds.), Perspectives on
teaching connected speech: To second language speakers (pp. 247-264).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2006). Introduction. In K. Kondo-Brown (Ed.), Heritage language
development: Focus on East Asian immigrants (pp. 1-12).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2006). East Asian heritage language proficiency development. In K.
Kondo-Brown (Ed.), Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian
immigrants (pp. 242-258).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2002). Heritage language development. In Guzzetti, B.J. (Ed.), Literacy in
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bilingual Shin Nisei students in
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Dornyei & R. Schmidt (Eds.), Motivation and second language acquisition
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D.
Kondo-Brown,
K., & Brown, J. D. (2000). The Japanese placement tests at the
Iwai,
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Conference Proceedings and
language magazine articles
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2003). Interviewer-candidate interactions during oral interviews for child
L2 learners. Proceedings of the fifth
Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (pp.
120-125).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2002). Preserving Japanese as heritage language in
Kondo,
K. (1999). Inputto renshuu to autoputto renshuu no gakushuu kooka hikaku
kenkyuu [Comparative beneficial effects of input practice and output practice].
Proceedings of the 1999 Spring conference
of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (pp. 191-196).
Kondo,
K. (1997). ハワイ日系二世大学生の日本語使用及び学習態度 [Japanese language use and attitudes of
second generation Japanese university students] Proceedings of the 1997 Spring Conference of the Society for Teaching
Japanese as a Foreign Language (pp. 129-134).
F.
In-House reports & On-Line
Documents
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2007). UHM日本語一・二年生用教科書レビュー報告書 (A 12-page review of he existing beginning and intermediate
level Japanese language textbooks submitted and presented to the entire
Japanese faculty member).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2004). Assessing the language component of the Manoa general education
requirements: Report on the LLL Assessment committee's 2002-2004 assessment
activity. Available at the UHM General. Available:
(http://www.hawaii.edu/gened/hsl.htm).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2003). Report from LLL about the plan to assess the second language
requirement. Available: http://www.hawaii.edu/assessment/uhm/assessment
efforts general education.htm).
Kondo-Brown,
K. (2001). Effects of three types of practice after explicit explanation.
G. Papers in review/preparation
Work
in Progress
Book
and monograph manuscripts
2009 Becoming proactive about assessment and
evaluation: Approaches, benefits, and challenges. Closing plenary for the
Hawaii Association of Language Teachers Conference. April 18.
2008 Teaching and integrating
heritage learners. Invited plenary for the ADFL (Association of Departments
of Foreign Languages) Summer Seminar West. June 4-8, 2008.
2005 Recent
work on teaching heritage students in East Asian languages: What have we
accomplished so far and what should we do next? Invited plenary for the
Heritage Language Instruction Symposium. May 1-2. ULCA,
languages. Individual paper presented
at the U.S. Department of Education's International Education Programs
Service’s Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference. March 19-21,
2008 Background, motivation, and reading ability
of students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Individual paper presented at
the 2008 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). October 16-19,
2008 Program evaluation activities
in the undergraduate Japanese language program at the
2007 Heritage language instruction: Issues and future
agendas. Individual paper to be presented at the 2007 Conference of the
International Society for Language Studies. April, 2-4,
2006 Investigating the relationship between affective factors and Japanese L2
reading ability.
Individual paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics
and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Joint Conference. June
17-20.
2005 Referential processes of Japanese narratives: Comparing JHL
and JFL students. Symposium paper presented at the 14th World Congress of
Applied Linguistics Conference. July 24-29.
2005 How do English L1 learners of
advanced Japanese infer unknown kanji words in authentic texts? Individual
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian
Studies. March 31.
2004 How different are the language
skills of subgroups of heritage language learners from traditional foreign
language learners? Individual paper presented at the Cultural Diversity and
Language Education Conference. September 17-19.
2004 Domains of language use and
skills in heritage language learners. Colloquium paper presented at the
American Association for Applied Linguistics. May1-4.
2003 Interviewer-candidate
interactions during oral interviews for child L2 learners. Individual paper presented at the fifth
Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences. July 5-6.
2003 Do background variables predict
students’ scores on a proficiency test? Individual paper presented at the
Sixth National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages. May
2-4.
2003 Preserving
Japanese as a heritage language in
2002 An analysis of the validity of
interview processes for child L2 examinees. Individual paper presented at
presented at American Association for Applied Linguistics. April 6-9.
2001 Language
development of Japanese FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary School)
students. Individual paper presented at the Pacific Second Language
Research Forum. October 6.
2001 An
analysis of rater factors in measuring Japanese L2 writing performance.
Individual paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers
of Japanese. March 25.
2000 Comparative instructional
effects of structured input practice, structured output practice, and mechanical
output practice. Individual paper presented at American Association for
Applied Linguistics. March 11,
1999 インプット練習とアウトプット練習の学習効果比較研究[A study on the beneficial
effects of input practice and output practice]. Individual paper presented at the
Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Conference. May 22-23.
1999 Motivational
issues of the university Japanese language programs: the case of American-born
students from the post-war Japanese immigrant families. Colloquium paper
presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese. March 11.
1999 Effects
of structured input vs. output practice in second language acquisition. Individual
paper presented at Hawaii Language Acquisition Workshop. January 30.
1998 Motivating
bilingual and semibilingual students of Japanese. Individual paper
presented at presented at the Second Language Research Forum. October 16.
1997 ハワイ日系二世大学生の日本語使用及び学習態度[Japanese language use and
attitudes of second generation Japanese university students]. Individual paper presented at
the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Conference. May 24-25.
1996 Social-psychological
motivation of language maintenance: A comparative study of English-Japanese
bilingual and English monolingual Nisei students in today’s
C.
Invited talks/workshops
2009. Curriculum development for
advancing heritage language competence. The Heritage Language Summer
Institute: Developing a Research Base for the Heritage Language Field.
2009. Teaching Heritage language
students: Definition, placement, and curriculum development. Invited individual
and panel talks for the
2007 Promoting advanced-level
proficiency: The need to build on heritage background and intensive study
experiences. Invited panel talk for the U.S. Department of Education’s
International Education Programs Service Conference.
2007 The development of oral communication skills in Japanese.
Invited talk for the Tokushima Japanese Language Network Workshop.
2005
Teaching
Japanese as a foreign language. Invited talk for the
2004 Assessing the language component of the Manoa General
Education Requirements. Invited talk for the UH workshop on Hawaiian/second
language articulation at
2002 Qualitative research methodology.
Invited summer workshop for the qualitative research group in the TESOL
Graduate Program of Temple University, Japan.
2001 Assessment for Japanese language teachers.
Invited talk as part of the Japanese Immersion Professional Development Workshop
for High School Japanese Language Professionals. Sponsored by Hawaii Department
of Education.
2001 Using assessment to help elementary
school world language professionals to teach: Use of standards- referenced
achievement tests for helping the students and program to grow. Invited
talk at the Professional Development Workshop for Elementary School World
Langue Professionals. Sponsored by Hawaii Department of Education.
2000 How is high school foreign
language study related to the proficiency of heritage language students of
Japanese? Invited Symposium prenter at the 2000 Western Conference of
Association for Asian Studies. October 7.
1999 Attending
to form in meaning-based foreign language curricula: Comparing effects of
different types of instructional practice. Invited talk for the Second
Language Teaching and Curriculum Center Professional Development Series.
December 3.
1999 Social-psychological
factors for language maintenance. Invited talk for the lecture series of
the Department of Second Language Studies September 16.
1999 Japanese language education as heritage language in
D. In-house Presentations
2008 Enhancing Evaluation of CLLL Programs: Developing an Online Student
Exit Survey System. Poster session “Strengthening Student
Success: Assessment in Action.” Office of Assessment at UH. November 10,
2008. (With J. Davis and Y.
Watanabe)
2005. Recent work on teaching heritage students in
East Asian languages. The EALL Lecture Series. April 20.
2000. The Japanese language placement test at the
1999.
assessment movements. EALL Lecture Series. November
18.
2006-2009 The principal investigator, The
NRCEA (National Resource Center East Asia) Japanese Language Testing Project,
2006-2009.
2008 The
2003-2006 The
principal investigator, The University of Hawaii NRCEA heritage language
instruction project in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
2006 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting an individual paper (“Investigating the relationship between
affective factors and Japanese L2 reading ability”) at the American
Association for Applied Linguistics and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
Joint Conference. June 17-20.
2005 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a symposium paper (“Referential
processes of Japanese narratives: Comparing JHL and JFL students”) at the 14th
World Congress of Applied Linguistics Conference (
2004 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“Domains of language use
and skills in heritage language learners”) at the American Association for
Applied Linguistics Conference (
2003 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“Do background variables
predict students’ scores on a proficiency test?”) at the Sixth National Council
of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages ( Los Angeles, CA).
2002-2003
The
principal investigator. The
2002 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“An analysis of the
validity of interview processes for child L2 examinees”) at the American
Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (Salt Lake City, UT).
2001 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“An analysis of rater
factors in measuring Japanese L2 writing performance”) at the Annual Meeting of
the Association of Teachers of Japanese (Chicago, IL).
2000 The
principal investigator. The
2000 University Research
Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“Comparative instructional effects
of structured input practice, structured output practice, and mechanical output
practice”) at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied
Linguistics (Vancouver, Canada).
1999 The
1999 The
principal investigator. The
1999 University
Research Council Travel Fund. For presenting a paper (“Motivational issues of
the university Japanese language programs”) at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of Teachers of Japanese (Boston, MA).