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Hisae Fujiwara

Assistant Professor of Japanese and Director of the Japanese Language Program
Hisae  Fujiwara
hfujiwar@brandeis.edu
781-736-2976
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 116

Departments/Programs

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Degrees

Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D.
University of Iowa, M.A.
University of Iowa, M.A.

Expertise

-Vocabulary acquisition in Japanese as a foreign language
-Kanji acquisition for students with alphabet-language backgrounds
-Using strategies for reading Japanese as a foreign language
-Content Based Instruction

Profile

My Research focuses on reading in a foreign language using various strategies, and on exploring Japanese language teachers' thoughts about and practices in teaching Kanji and identifying the underlying factors in Kanji acquisition for learners with alphabet-language backgrounds.

Courses Taught

JAPN 10a Beginning Japanese
JAPN 20b Continuing Japanese
JAPN 120a Topics in Contemporary Japanese Culture and Society

Scholarship

Fujiwara, Hisae. "Teaching Japanese: Broadening Horizons through Learning Languages." Rev. of Nihongo o Oshieru: Kotoba wa Sekai wo Hirogeru, by Noriko Hirota. Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. Japanese Language and Literature vol. 45 of 1 2011: 119-122.



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