Asako Hayashi Takakura
Education
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Developmental Studies (Language, Literacy, and Cultural Studies), Boston University, 2000
M.A., Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
M.A., Special Education, Georgia Southwestern College
B.A., Broadcasting, Nihon University College of Art
Research
Presented the 14th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching “World Japaneses: Who are Japanese speakers and how we assess their
pronunciation” Indiana, 2023
Invited lecture at Waseda University, “Language Education in the US: K-16” in Tokyo, Japan 2023
Presented at the 29th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum “Peer-Assisted Reflections on Student Learning (PAROSL) and its effect on professional development of Japanese language educators” Princeton, NJ May, 2023.
Organized and chaired a panel discussion at Bilingual Multilingual Children Network (BMCN) annual conference “A report on early childhood bilingual education opportunities in Japan and in the US. What and how they learn in two languages.” Zoom October 2022.
Presented at Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education Annual Conference “A report on translanguaging of Japanese-English bilingual children in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) activities”, Zoom August 2022.
Presented at the 2nd Critical Content Based Instruction (CCBI) Conference, “Collaborative CBI projects with higher education partners for a two-way immersion program”, Zoom August, 2022.
Organized and chaired a panel discussion at NHLRC 4TH International Conference on Heritage/community Languages “A showcase of Japanese heritage language development and maintenance pathways in three different educational settings in Greater Los Angeles (GLA)” Zoom, June 2022.
Presented at the 28th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum “Double/Multiple Unlimited: A showcase of Japanese-English imultaneous Bilingual Development” Zoom April,2022.
Invited Keynote Lecture at Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC) Spring Workshop “How to create online tests and learning materials” Zoom, April 2022.
Presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Development of Online Educational Resources (OERs) for beginners of Japanese and a new style of Japanese language education in a post covid world.” Zoom, March 2022
Publications
Takakura, A. H. (2023). “Introspection and Intuition: Peer-Assisted Reflections on Student Learning (PAROSL) and its effect on professional development of Japanese language educators. In Proceedings of the 29th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton, N. J. (pp. 1-10).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e5n-RUaY4dcOCF922OhKE1h83YItZt4N/view
Takakura, A. H. (2022). “Double/Multiple Unlimited: A showcase of Japanese-English Simultaneous Bilingual Development” In Proceedings of the 28th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton, N. J. (pp. 364-373)
https://pjpf.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf1151/files/documents/PJPF_22_Proceedings_1.pdf
Triest, M. A., Takakura, A. H., and Chik, C.H. (2021). Language Practices and Cultural Exposure over Multiple Generations in Greater Los Angeles. In Chik, C.H. (Ed.) Multilingual La La Land. Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities. Routledge, New York, N.Y. (pp. 151-169)
Takakura, A. H. (Ed.). (2019). The collection of creative writing by learners of Japanese: Vol. 1. Rerē shōsetsushū = Collection of relay essays リレー小説集. UCLA Library.
