The 20th SEATJ Conference Program
Georgia Institute of Technology
2005

March 19th (Saturday)
8:00am - 9:00am

Registration/Breakfast

9:00am - 9:30am

Opening  (Room Seven)   Masato Kikuchi
Welcoming Remarks   Phil McKnight (Chair, the School of Modern Languages)

9:30am - 11:00am: Sessions 1A and 1B
Session 1A—Linguistics (Room Seven) Chair: Satomi Suzuki
9:30am - 10:00am

A Lexicon-driven Approach to ‘Suru’ in Japanese Lexical Structure
Xuexin Liu (Spelman College)

10:00am - 10:30am

Symmetrical Distribution between the Inferential and Degree of Identity Systems in Contemporary Japanese
Hidemi S. Riggs (California State University, Los Angeles/UCLA)

10:30am - 11:00am

A functional study of Japanese discourse marker- ano
Yang Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Session 1B—Pedagogy/ Japanese Teaching, Media and Technology (Room Eight) Chair: Masako Kanno
9:30am - 10:00am

Methods of Solving Problems While Learning Japanese
Fumie Kato (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

10:00am - 10:30am

ビデオ「石川に学ぶ」を活用した授業の進め方
氏家研一(ワシントン・アンド・リー大学 

10:30am - 11:00am

A Case Study:  Petto-chan  A Japanese Language Learning Video Game
Sam Hart, Sabrina Haskell, Yuki Izena, and Brian Schrank (Carnegie Mellon University)

 
11:00am - 12:15pm
Lunch
12:15pm - 12:45pm
Business Meeting (Room Seven)
12:45pm - 2:15pm: Sessions 2A and 2B
Session 2A—Linguistics/Acquisition (Room Seven) Chair: Kyoko Masuda

12:45pm - 1:15pm

疑問文に現れる「わけ」――他の疑問形との比較から――
秋山庵然(日本体育大学)
村山康雄(長岡技術科学大学

1:15pm - 1:45pm

「なるべく」と「できるだけ」はどう違う
江森祥子(ミシガン大学)

1:45pm - 2:15pm

What were they thinking?: Thought processes during written production of Japanese as a foreign language
Seiko Horibe (Emory University)

Session 2B—Pedagogy (Room Eight)   Chair: Rumiko Shinzato

12:45pm - 1:15pm

Colonization and appropriation of cultural norms through agency: The case of an American JFL learner
Natsuki Fukunaga , University of Georgia

1:15pm - 1:45pm

Teachers’ Perceptions of L1 Use in the Beginning-Level JFL Classrooms
Shino Hayashi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yumiko Matsunaga, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:45pm - 2:15pm

(Open)

 

2:15pm - 2:45pm

Coffee Break  (Book Exhibit)

2:45pm - 4:45pm: Session 3 — Keynote Speech (Room Seven)

2:45pm - 4:15pm

Prof. Chikako Shinagawa (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The teacher, the taught and the textbook: Finding and adapting a textbook for our teaching needs”

4:15pm - 4:25pm

Short Break

4:25pm - 4:45pm

Q/A Session

 

4:45pm - 5:15pm

Book Exhibit

5:30pm

Departure for  Nakato Restaurant

6:00pm

Dinner at Nakato

March 20th (Sunday)

8:00am - 9:00am

 Breakfast

9:00am - 11:10am: Sessions 4A and 4B
Session 4A—Japanese Teaching, Media and Technology (Room Seven) Chair: Masato Kikuchi
9:00am - 9:30am
(Open)
9:30am -10:00am

「オンライン教材の現在とこれからの展望」
小塚操(ミシガン大学)
石田まゆみ(ダートマス大学)
尾本康裕(カリフォルニア大学バークレー校)

10:00am - 10:10am
Short Break

10:10am - 10:40am

Blog Assisted Language Learning Project at University of Colorado at Boulder
Shinya Suzuki (University of Colorado at Boulder)

10:40am - 11:10am

オンライン日本語コースにおけるアクティビティの開発
Satomi Suzuki (Georgia Tech/U of Georgia)
Masato Kikuchi (Georgia Tech)

Session 4B—Pedagogy/Japanese Teaching, Media and Technology (Room Eight)  Chair: Aki Matsushima

9:00am - 9:30am

Issues Regarding Placement
Hitomi Endo (Duke University)

9:30am -10:00am

Effect of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) on Acquisition of Oral Communication Skills in Japanese
Urara Kobayashi (University of Alberta)

10:00am - 10:10am

Short Break

10:10am - 10:40am

The Online Newspaper Project: Its History and New Directions
Mayumi Ishida (Dartmouth College)

10:40am - 11:10am

「日本語教育のためのIT教育」
尾本康裕(カリフォルニア大学バークレー校)

 

11:10am – 11:40am

Coffee Break

11:40am - 12:30pm: Session 5 —FORUM  (Room Seven)

11:40am – 12:30pm

「日本語クラスにおける評価と成績に関するディスカッション・フ ォーラム」
(
Discussion Forum on the Assessment and Grading in Japanese Language Classes)
Ryuko Kubota (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Hitomi Endo (Duke University)
Wakako Yamaguchi (William G. Enloe High School)

 

12:30pm - 12:40pm

Closing  (Room Seven)   Kyoko Masuda

   

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The 20th SEATJ was made possible by generous contributions from Japan Foundation, North East Asian Council, Association of Asian Studies (NEAC, AAS), and Georgia Tech CIBER/School of Modern Languages. The organizing committee greatly appreciates their support for the conference and the upcoming proceedings.