New Perspectives on Japanese Language Learning, Linguistics, and Culture

This volume is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Spring Conference held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in March of 2011. It not only covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also includes research investigating certain linguistic items from new perspectives. Following a preface, chapters include: (1) Development of Narrative Writing Ability and Language Proficiency in Young JHL Learners in a Japanese Immersion Program (Masako O. Douglas, Kiyomi Chinen, and Hiroko C. Kataoka) [written in Japanese]; (2) Using N Desu in Small Talk: JFL Learners' Pragmatic Development (Tomoko Iwai); (3) Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on JFL Students' Homework (Yuka Akiyama and Mayumi Fleshler); (4) Theories and Practices of Content-Based Language Instruction: Toward "Critical" Japanese Language Education (Shinji Sato, Atsushi Hasegawa, Yuri Kumagai, and Uichi Kamiyoshi) [written in Japanese]; (5) Social Network Development during Study Abroad in Japan (Spencer A. Ring, Daniel Gardner, and Dan P. Dewey); (6) Grammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-topical Subject in Japanese Conversation (Michiko Kaneyasu); (7) A Study of the No-Clause Construction in Japanese: Internally Headed Relative Clauses and Beyond (Xiaoman Miao) [written in Japanese]; and (8) Transmissive Feminism: The Evolutive Mind as Displayed in the Overseas Letters of Yamada Kakichi to Yamada Waka (Rika Saito).