Yumiko?Matsunaga
- Teaching Professor of Distinction
- Japanese Language Coordinator
Address
?315
Office Hours
Fridays 9-10 a.m. or by appointment
PhD in Japanese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012; Minor: Second Language Acquisition; Dissertation: ※Learner Investment, Identity, and Imagined Communities: A Study of Japanese Language House Community§
MA in Japanese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
Publications:
- Matsunaga, Y. 2020. ※Learners＊ Investments and Identities in the Japanese House: A Study of JFL Learners Living in Foreign Language Housing.§ In J. Bown, W. Baker-Smemoe, & D. P. Dewey (Eds.), Language Learning in Foreign Language Houses (pp.293-318). Auburn, AL: International Association for Language Learning Technology.
- Mori, J., & Matsunaga, Y. 2017. ※Becoming a conversationalist at the dinner table: Topic management practices by a JFL student living in foreign language housing.§ In T. Greer, M. Ishida, & Y. Tateyama (Eds.), Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language: Pragmatics & interaction (pp.293-331). Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- Wahls, N., M谷ndez-Betancor, A., Brierley, M., Pinz車n, V. A., Matsunaga, Y., Bocanegra, N., and Vidaurr芍zaga M. B. 2017. ※Collaborative Learning in Global Online Education Using Virtual International Exchanges.§ EDUCAUSE Review. ()
Proceedings:
- Matsunaga, Y., Osaka, M., Saito, A., and Sakakibara, Y. 2025. ☆禾旦玄戊伕瓜匹及任央奈民乓伙弊蕣蝠霜及砩膽毛丹(Exploring the Significance of Virtual International Exchange in the Post-COVID Era) ★(pp.63-78). The 40th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese, Chapel Hill, NC. ()
- Matsunaga, Yumiko and Hacke, Mariko. 2023.?※左件仿奶件頗皿伕弘仿丞TalkAbroad毛瞳蚚仄化及恅趙悝皿伕斥尼弁玄?(Intercultural Projects in Japanese Using the Online Video Chat Program TalkAbroad).§ Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, Montreal, Canada. ()
Research Interests:
Japanese linguistics; second language acquisition; Japanese language pedagogy; ethnography.