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
Organized and chaired a panel discussion at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Journey from learners to authors through Original Creative Writing” Zoom, March 2021
Presented at the Virtual Summit on Project-Based Learning by National Heritage Language Resource Center “Mental Health and Wellbeing; differences and similarities between Japan and US” Virtual November 2020
Presented at the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese (NECTJ) Professional Development Workshop, “Virtual activities in zoom classes” Virtual, August 2020
Presented at the Mother Tongue, Heritage, and Bilingual Conference “Analysis of parental perception of Japanese-English bilingual development of children and educational opportunities in Los Angele” Virtual, August 2020
Invited Lecture at American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Professional Development Workshop, “Pivoting to Remote Assessment: Development of on-line based tests” April 2020
Presented at Pronunciation in Second Language Learning & Teaching (PSLLT) 11th Annual Conference “Comparison of One-Way and Two-Way Immersion Education for English-Japanese Bilinguals’ Pronunciation Skills”, Flagstaff, Arizona, September 2019
Presented at the Mother Tongue, Heritage, and Bilingual Conference “Oral Proficiency of Japanese Heritage and Foreign Language Learners in a Two-Way Immersion Program.” Kyoto, Japan, August 2019
Invited Keynote Lecture for one day teacher training work shop at Japanese Teachers Association of Texas (JTAT) April 2019
Organized and chaired a panel discussion at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Reevaluation of heritage Japanese learners in North America: Data from two-way immersion, university HL class and Hoshuko” Denver, Colorado, March 2019
Presented at the Mother Tongue, Heritage, and Bilingual Conference “Comparative study of language proficiency between heritage and non-heritage speakers who are the superior speakers of the Japanese language.” Tokyo, Japan August 2018
Invited Lecture at M’s English Academy “Teaching English and the 21st century skills for post millennials” Gunma, Japan August 2018
Key Note Speech at the Niijima Gakuen, “Language Education to enhance 21st century skills for young learners.” Gunma, Japan July 2018
Invited Lecture for Akita International University “How to improve second/foreign language proficiency of post millennials.” Akita, Japan July 2018.
Presented at the Critical Content Based Instruction (CCBI) “Designing language class to promote learners’ critical thinking through the documentary film: Human Error” Tokyo Japan, June 2018
Presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Linguistic Landscape and Japanese Language Education:A new way of discussion and field work activities with LL data” March 2018
Invited Keynote Lecture for one day teacher training work shop at Alaska Association of Japanese Teachers (AKATJ)
February 2018
Presented at the third international heritage language conference “Japanese language proficiency of JHL high school students who attended a Japanese/English immersion program in California” February 2018
Presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Language ability of Japanese English immersion children and graduates: Implications for Japanese language learning as lifelong education”
March 2017
Presented at AATJ Webinar “Technology for Busy Teachers: Useful on-line tools for blended/hybrid Japanese course and tips for flipping class activities”
Presented at Tenth International Conference on Language Teacher Education. “A report on a teacher training project for a Japanese immersion program”
Presented at ACTFL annual convention “Development of Blended Language Instruction for Japanese Language Learners” Boston MA November 2016
Presented at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) “Effects of two-way immersion instruction on accent, comprehensibility, and voice onset time (VOT)”, September 2016
Invited Lecture “From Immersion to Accumulation A new approach of languageeducation” at Waseda University, July 2016
Presented at the International Conference on Practical Linguistics in Japanese 9 “Comparative study of language proficiency between simultaneous and sequential bilingual individuals who are the superior speakers of the Japanese language, June 2016
Presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference “Linguistic Landscape and Japanese Language Education: An Analysis of linguistic landscape data collected by JFL learners” March 2016
Publications
“Developing web-based multi-level materials for Japanese Content-Based Instruction” Makino, S. and Endo, M. (Ed.) (2008) Japanese Language and Literature, Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese.
“Japanese English Bilingual Children in Three Different Educational Environments” Kondo-Brown, K. (Ed.). (2006). Heritage LanguageDevelopment: Focus on East Asian Immigrants. [Studies in Bilingualism Series]. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
