Yumiko?Matsunaga

  • Teaching Professor of Distinction
  • Japanese Language Coordinator
Address

?315

Office Hours

Tuesdays & Wednesdays 11:30am - 12:00pm or by appointment @ Zoom

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., Mndez-Betancor, A., Brierley, M., Pinzn, V. A., Matsunaga, Y., Bocanegra, N., and Vidaurrzaga M. B. 2017. Collaborative Learning in Global Online Education Using Virtual International Exchanges. EDUCAUSE Review. ()

Proceedings:

Matsunaga, Yumiko and Hacke, Mariko. 2023.?饤ԒץTalkAbroadäƤήĻѧץ?(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.