~Research activities~

 

A. Books  

 

Kondo-Brown, 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.) New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/ Taylor & Francis. 346 pp.  

 

Brown, J.D., & Kondo-Brown, K. (Eds.) (December, 2006). Perspectives on teaching connected speech: To second language speakers. Honolulu, HL: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii Press. 291 pp.

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (Ed.). (December, 2006). Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian immigrants. (Studies in Bilingualism Series 32). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. 282 pp. 

 

B. Refereed Journal Articles  

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (in press). Background, motivation, and reading ability of students in university upper-level Chinese, Japanese, and Korean courses. Reading in a Foreign Language.

 

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 Hawaii. The Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 6, 1-19.

 

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 US language policy and Japanese language education in Hawaii. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1, 47-64.

  

Kondo, K. (I998). Social-psychological factors affecting language maintenance: Interviews with Shin Nisei university students. Linguistics and Education, 9, 369-408.  

 

C.    Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (forthcoming). Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

 

Kondo-Brown, K., & J. D. Brown. (2008). Introduction. In K. Kondo-Brown & J.D. Brown (Eds.), Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean heritage language students: Curriculum needs, materials, and assessment (PP. 3-16).  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Kondo-Brown, 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 heritage language students: Curriculum needs, materials, and assessment (PP. 17-43). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Kondo-Brown, K., & Fukuda, C. (2008). A separate-track for advanced heritage language students?: Japanese inter-sentential referencing. In K. Kondo-Brown & J.D. Brown (Eds.), Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean heritage language students: Curriculum needs, materials, and assessment (PP. 135-156). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

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). Honolulu, HL: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii Press.

 

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). Honolulu, HL: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii Press. 

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (2006). Introduction. In K. Kondo-Brown (Ed.), Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian immigrants (pp. 1-12). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.

 

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). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (2002). Heritage language development. In Guzzetti, B.J. (Ed.), Literacy in America: An encyclopedia of history, theory, and practice, volume 1(pp. 219-223). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (2002). Family and school factors influencing academic performance of bilingual Shin Nisei students in Hawaii.  In E. Tamura, V. Chattergy, R. Endo (Eds.), Asian and Pacific Islander American Education: Social, cultural, and historical contexts (pp. 149-174). South EL Monte, CA: Pacific Asia Press.

 

Kondo-Brown, K. (2001). Bilingual heritage students language contact and motivation. Z. Dornyei & R. Schmidt (Eds.), Motivation and second language acquisition (pp. 425-451). Honolulu: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.

 

D. National Foreign Language Resource Center online publications

 

Kondo-Brown, K., & Brown, J. D. (2000). The Japanese placement tests at the University of Hawaii: Applying item response theory. NFLRC NetWork #20. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center. Available: http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/ nflrc/NetWorks). 89 pp.

 

Iwai, T., Kondo, K., Lim, D.J., Ray, G., Shimizu, H., & Brown, J.D. (1999). Japanese language needs analysis 1998-1999. NFLRC NetWork #13. Honolulu: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii. Available: http:// www.lll.hawaii.edu/ nflrc/NetWorks). 87 pp.

 

 

E.     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 Hawaii. Language Magazine, 16-19.

 

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. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Second Language Studies, 19 (1), 99-127. Available: (http://www.hawaii.edu/sls/uhwpesl/on-line_cat.html).

 

G. Papers in review/preparation

 

Work in Progress

 

  • Kondo-Brown, K. Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of two-year Japanese language program learning outcomes.

 

Book and monograph manuscripts

 

  • 日本語教師のための評価入門〜9つの評価実践事例〜
  • Introduction to Assessment for Japanese language teachers: Nine Assessment Practices

 

·        バイリンガル日系アメリカ人子女の言語体験

·        〜今アメリカで注目されている「新分野・継承語教育」を考える〜

 

conference/workship presentations

 

A. Plenary speeches

 

2009   Becoming proactive about assessment and evaluation: Approaches, benefits, and challenges. Closing plenary for the Hawaii Association of Language Teachers Conference. April 18. Kapiolani Community College.

 

2008   Teaching and integrating heritage learners. Invited plenary for the ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) Summer Seminar West. June 4-8, 2008. Stanford University, CA.

 

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, Los Angeles, CA.

 

B. Refereed conference presentations

 

2009   Examining approaches to advanced-level foreign language competence in less commonly taught

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, Washington, D.C. [Funded by the NRCEA grant]

 

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, Honolulu, HI.

 

2008   Program evaluation activities in the undergraduate Japanese language program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Individual paper presented at the Hawaii Association of Language Teachers Conference. March 8. Honolulu, HI. 

 

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, Honolulu, HI.

 

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. Montreal, Canada. [Funded by the URC]

 

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. Madison, WI. [Funded by the URC]

 

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. Chicago, IL. [Funded by the NRCEA]

 

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. Honolulu, HI.

 

2004   Domains of language use and skills in heritage language learners. Colloquium paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics. May1-4. Portland, OR. [Funded by the URC]

 

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. Kobe, Japan.

 

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. Los Angeles, CA. [Funded by the URC]

 

2003   Preserving Japanese as a heritage language in Hawaii. Individual paper presented at the Hawaii Association of Language Teachers Conference. February 22. Honolulu, HI.

 

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. Salt Lake City, UT. [Funded by the URC]

 

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. Honolulu, HI.

 

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. Chicago, IL. [Funded by the URC]

 

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, Vancouver, Canada. [Funded by the URC]

 

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. Chiba, Japan.

 

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. Boston, MA. [Funded by the URC]

 

1999   Effects of structured input vs. output practice in second language acquisition. Individual paper presented at Hawaii Language Acquisition Workshop. January 30. Honolulu, HI.

 

1998   Motivating bilingual and semibilingual students of Japanese. Individual paper presented at presented at the Second Language Research Forum. October 16. Honolulu, HI.

 

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. Tokyo, Japan.

 

1996   Social-psychological motivation of language maintenance: A comparative study of English-Japanese bilingual and English monolingual Nisei students in today’s Hawaii. Individual paper presented at the Comparative & International Education Society, Western Regional Conference. January 3-5. Honolulu, HI.

 

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. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. June, 22-26.

           

2009. Teaching Heritage language students: Definition, placement, and curriculum development. Invited individual and panel talks for the Language Resource Center at Cornell University. March 5-7, 2009.

 

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. Washington, D.C. February 22-23.

 

2007   The development of oral communication skills in Japanese. Invited talk for the Tokushima Japanese Language Network Workshop. Tokushima, Japan, July 11.

 

2005   Teaching Japanese as a foreign language. Invited talk for the Hawaii Kyoikukai Teachers’ workshop. Honolulu, HI. February 12.

 

2004   Assessing the language component of the Manoa General Education Requirements. Invited talk for the UH workshop on Hawaiian/second language articulation at Kapiolani Community College. May 7.

 

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. University of Hawaii at Maona. November 10.

 

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. Farrington High School. October 3.

 

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. Long Beach, CA.

 

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 Hawaii. Invited talk at Aoyama Gakuin University.  Tokyo, Japan. May 16.

 

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 University of Hawaii at Manoa: Applying the item response theory. The EALL Lecture Series. October 19.

 

1999.   Minnesota Articulation Project 1993-1997: A case of recent proficiency-oriented and performance-based

 assessment movements. EALL Lecture Series. November 18.

 

Research and travel awards/grants

 

2006-2009     The principal investigator, The NRCEA (National Resource Center East Asia) Japanese Language Testing Project, 2006-2009.  

 

2008         The University of Hawaii LLL Research and Training Revolving Fund. Project title: Investigating oral performance of fourth-semester Japanese language students.  .

 

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. Montreal, Canada.  

 

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 (Madison, WI). Awarded $1,840.

 

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 (Portland, OR).  

 

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 University of Hawaii Assessment Fund. Project title: Assessing the language component of the Manoa general education requirements.  

 

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 University of Hawaii Presidential Educational Improvement Fund Award. Project title: Investigation of the UH Japanese language placement test.  

 

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 University of Hawaii Japanese Studies Endowment Grant. For participating in the CARLA Summer Institute: Developing Proficiency-Oriented Assessments for the second language classroom.  

 

1999         The principal investigator. The University of Hawaii Japanese Studies Endowment grant. Project title: Form-focused instruction in performance-based teaching: Effects of Input vs. Output Communicative Tasks in Teaching Japanese Grammar.  

 

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).  

 

1997         The principal investigator. The University of Hawaii Japanese Studies Endowment grant. Project title: A qualitative study of individual differences in Japanese proficiency among Nisei university students.