Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests are acquisition of literacy in Japanese as a foreign/heritage langauge, and heritage language education (young learners and college students). She is a coordinator of Japanese Heritage Language SIG. She developed a course for college students of Japanese as a heritage language at California State University, Long Beach and University of California, Los Angeles. She has been developing a curriculum for young learners of Japanese as a heritage language at Kodomo no Ie Japanese langauge school. Kanji is the one of her primary areas of research as a part of literacy acquisition. She wrote a book of kanji, "A Practical Guide to Learning Kanji: For Learners from an Alphabetic Background" (McGraw-Hill).
Since the first Heritage Language Conference in 1999, there has been a remarkably increased attention to heritage languages from researchers and educators. This applies to Japanese as a heritage language (JHL hereafter) as well. At this study forum, I would like to address primary issues in teaching JHL to young and adult learners, particularly focusing on differences in teaching JHL and JFL (Japanese as a foreign language).
Douglas sensei's paper is at http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/douglas_benkyoukai.doc
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