Naoko Kurokawa, Lecturer

Office Location:	236 Franklin Center
Office Phone:	919-681-4593
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• JPN 101.01D, ELEMENTARY JAPANESE Synopsis

  Soc/Psych 128, TuTh 10:05 AM-10:55 AM

• JPN 101.02D, ELEMENTARY JAPANESE Synopsis

  Soc/Psych 128, TuTh 11:45 AM-12:35 PM

• JPN 101.03D, ELEMENTARY JAPANESE Synopsis

  Trent 038A, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:15 PM

• JPN 305.01, ADVANCED JAPANESE Synopsis

  Trent 038A, MWF 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

Office Hours:

Mon & Wed 2:00 -3:00

Education:

MA

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2001

Specialties:

Japanese

Research Interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Curriculum Development and Japanese Linguistics

Development of foreign language curriculum, computer-assisted learning, Japanese linguistics and pragmatics in second language classroom.

Recent Publications

1. N. Kurokawa, Reconsiderig Aquisition & Instruction of Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese, Journal CAJLE, vol. 13 (Submitted, Summer, 2012)
2. N. Kurokawa, Acquisition of the Explanatory modal n(no)da through the corpus-driven language pedagogy, Proceedings of the Practice Study Forum for Japanese Education, the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Nihongo Kyoiku Gakkai) (Summer, 2011)
3. N. Kurokawa, Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation: Analysis of JFL Learners’ Motives and the Potential of Digital Comic Making, Proceedings of the Practical Study Forum for Japanese Education, the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (2009)
4. N. Kurokawa, Examining the Effect of Peer Feedback and Internet-Mediated Communication in JFL writing, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Japanese Language & Literature Association of Taiwan (2009)
5. N. Kurokawa, Pedagogical Use of the Fixed-form Verses in the JFL Instruction, proceedings of the 23rd SEATJ conference (2008)