Ms. Tomoko Takami

BOOKS:

• Co-editor, Mirai wo tsukuru kotobano kyooiku wo mezashite: Hihanteki naiyoojyuushi no gengokyooiku no riron to jissen [Language Education for Social Future: Critical Content-Based Instruction] (2015, 2nd printing 2018). Co-editor with Shinji Sato, Uichi Kamiyoshi, and Yuri Kumagai. Tokyo: Coco Syuppan.
• Chukyu kara nobasu Bijinesu keesu de manabu nihongo.(Powering Up Your Japanese through Case Studies: Intermediate and Advanced Japanese) (2014; 11th printing 2024)  Tokyo: The Japan Times, Inc. 

Articles (Selected):

• “New Approach to Business Japanese Instruction: Content-Based Instruction Using Business Cases.” (2017).  Journal of Japanese Linguistics. 33 (pp.65-74). 
• Review article, “Shigeru Osuka- Japanese for Healthcare Professionals: Introduction to Medical Japanese”  (2015)  Japanese Language and Literature. 49 (2). (pp. 375- 380). American Association of Teachers of Japanese.
• “Infusing the National Standards into Business Language Curriculum” (2010) Global Business Languages. 15, Article 4. Purdue University CIBER.
  Available at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/gbl/vol15/iss1/4
• Editor, “Meeting Student Needs: Perspectives on Teaching Japanese for Professional   Purposes” (2010). Association of Teachers of Japanese Occasional Paper.
• "Introduction." “Meeting Student Needs: Perspectives on Teaching Japanese for Professional  Purposes.” (2010) Association of Teachers of Japanese Occasional Paper.
• “Employing International Business Cases for Business Language Instruction.”  (2008)  Global Business Languages. 13 (pp 63-79). Purdue University CIBER.
• “A Study on Closing Section of Japanese Telephone Conversation.”  (2002). Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, vol. 18. Philadelphia, USA:  University of Pennsylvania

 Book Chapters:

• “Proficiency-Based Instruction from Intermediate to Advanced level”  In Miura and Watanabe (Eds.), Proficiency-Based Instruction in Japanese Language Education： Application and Practice of ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (tentative Title) (in writing)
• “Beikoku daigaku no bijinesu nihongo koosu ni okeru nakyoojyuushi no hihanteki gengokyooiku no kokoromi (A study of Critical Content-Based Instruction in Business Japanese Course in the United States).”   In Sato, Takami, Kamiyoshi, and Kumagai (Eds.), Mirai wo tsukuru kotobano kyooiku wo mezashite: Hihanteki naiyoojyuushi no gengokyooiku no riron to jissen [Language Education for Social Future: Critical Content-Based Instruction]. Pp. 297-322.  Tokyo: Coco Syuppan. (2015)
• “Amerika ni okeru naiyo jyuushino nihongo kyoiku (Content -Based Instruction in the US)”. Co-author with Shinji Sato, Yuri Kumagai, Astushi Hasegawa, and Akemi Morioka.  In Sato, Takami, Kamiyoshi, and Kumagai (Eds.), Mirai wo tsukuru kotobano kyooiku wo mezashite: Hihanteki naiyoojyuushi no gengokyooiku no riron to jissen [Language Education for Social Future: Critical Content-Based Instruction]. Tokyo: Coco Syuppan.  Pp 77-121. (2015)
• “Building Connections between Language and Culture Learning: A Hybrid Curriculum Model for More Effective Business Japanese Teaching.” (2010). In M. Gueldry (Eds) How Globalizing Professions Deal with National Languages: Studies in Cultural Studies and Cooperation (pp.79-99) The Edwin Mellen Press.

Conference Proceedings:

• "Afurika no niizu ni awaseta bijinesu nihongo kyoiku (Business Japanese Education meeting the needs in Africa)"  Japanese Language Teachers' Association in Ethiopia (JLTAE) (ed.) (2024) Proceedings of the 1st Conference of Japanese Language Education in Africa, 27-29 September 2019. Pp 173-183.
• "Gurobaru jinzai no ikusei wo mezashita shokyu bijinesu nihongo: mogi jyugyo - bijinesu jokyo deno shotaimen aisatu (Cultivating Global Talent through Introductory Business Japanese: Teaching Demonstration on First-Time Greetings in Business Contexts) "Japanese Language Teachers' Association in Ethiopia (JLTAE) (ed.) (2024) Proceedings of the 1st Conference of Japanese Language Education in Africa, 27-29 September 2019. Pp 184-191.
• “21seiki ni motomerareru kaigaino bijinesu nihongo kyoiku (Business Japanese Language Education outside of Japan for the 21st Century).”  (2023). Proceedings of International Symposium on Japanese Language Education 2022.  Pp.156-164.
• "Posuto korona no nihongo kyoiku: “Connections” ni kansuru koosatsu (Post-Covid Japanese Language Education: Inquiry of “Connections).” (2022) Proceeding of The 29th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference.  Pp 21-31.
• “Beikoku daigakuni okeru jisedai gurobaru jinzaino ikuseiwo mezasu kyoiku jissen (Cultivating next-generation global human resources: A case of business Japanese instruction  in an American university).” (2018)  Proceeding of the International Conference of Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) .  Pp. 137-148.
• “Bujinesu nihongo no projekuto ni okeru manabino komyuniti wo mezasu kokoromi (An Attempt to Build Learning Community through a Project in Business Japanese).” (2014) Proceedings of the 21st Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum.  Pp 1-10.  Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
• “Integrating language and content: A case study of intermediate Japanese for professions.”  (2005). In R. Jourdenais, & S. Springer (Eds.), Content, Tasks and Projects in the Language Classroom: 2004 Conference Proceedings (pp. 69-77). Monterey, CA: Monterey Institute of International Studies.