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Lecturer
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SEUNG-EUN CHANG (Korean
Language Program)
Seung-Eun Chang received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University
of Texas, Austin, in Dec. 2007, specializing in Phonology and Phonetics.
Prior to entering the doctoral program at U.T., she had over five
years of college teaching experience (English) in South Korea,
and she obtained her B.A. and M.A. at Yonsei University, Seoul,
South Korea. Her research interests include laboratory methods
of language analysis, and teaching Korean as a foreign language.
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CECILIA
PAO YUNG CHU (Chinese
Language Program Co-Ordinator)
Cecilia
Chu, Senior Lecturer, received an M.A. in Linguistics from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1969. She joined the Department
of Oriental
Languages
(presently Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) at
UCB in 1971
and has been teaching there ever since. She is now coordinating
the Chinese Language Program, and is also in charge
of Intermediate Chinese
C10A and C10B. Since she became the Chinese Language Program
Coordinator in 1995, she has developed CALL (Computer-aided language
learning)
programs
for the C10A/B courses and FanJian the Chinese Character Tutor — An
Online Traditional and Simplified Chinese Character Tutoring
Program for students of
Chinese at all levels. |
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KAYOKO
IMAGAWA (Japanese Language Program)
Kayoko Imagawa received her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language
at San Francisco State University and has taught Japanese to students of
all ages from elementary school children through adults. She recently taught
at Castilleja School in Palo Alto and at a Japanese language school in San
Francisco. |
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WAKAE
KAMBARA (Japanese
Language Program)
Wakae Kambara graduated from Tokyo Women’s Christian
University with a B.A. in psychology and earned an M.A. in Educational
Psychology from Tokyo University of Education and an M.A. in
Teaching Japanese from San Francisco State University. She also
holds
a licentiated diploma for TESOL from Trinity College in London,
U.K. She has been teaching at UC Berkeley since 1994. She had
taught Japanese to students at various levels at the University
of San Francisco and at language schools in California as well
as in the U.K. before coming to UC Berkeley. She is an ACTFL
certified OPI tester. |
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MINSOOK KIM (Korean
Language Program)
Minsook Kim received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, specializing in
Second Language acquisition. Her reseach interests include second language
phonology espeically, Korean as a second language; crosslinguistic typology;
and content-based foreign language education.
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NORIKO KNICKERBOCKER (Japanese Language Program)
Noriko Knickerbocker graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo Japan with a B.A. in English from the College of Education. She received her M.A. in Education specializing in Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, and Linguistics at California State University, Chico. She taught Japanese at California Sate University, Chico for two years,
University of California, San Diego for twelve years, and several other colleges. She has just moved back to California from Iowa and is very excited about joining U.C. Berkeley's Japanese Language Program.
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KIJOO
KO (Korean Language Program Co-Ordinator)
Kijoo Ko received a
Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
in 1997, specializing in bilingual language processing. She then
taught Elementary and Advanced Korean at the University of Chicago
as a senior lecturer during 1999-2001. In 2002, she joined UC
Berkeley and has been teaching Elementary and Intermediate Korean
ever since. Her research interests include bilingual language
organization, second language acquisition, teaching Korean as
a foreign language, and CALL (Computer-aided language learning). |
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NORIKO
KOMATSU WALLACE (Japanese Language Program)
Noriko Komatsu is a
lecturer of the Japanese language. She graduated from Gakushuin
University with a major in Japanese literature, completed a research
course at the University of Tokyo and received training as a
Japanese language specialist at the National Language Research
Institute, Tokyo. Her publications include co-authorship of An
Introduction to Advanced Spoken Japanese and contributions to
Formal Expressions for Japanese Interaction and Writing Letters
in Japanese, textbooks published by the Inter-University Center
in Yokohama, entries in A Japanese Language Education Handbook,
Taishukan Press and numerous articles in Nihongo Journal, etc.
She has also published her own poetry. Besides the Inter-University
Center where she was Program Coordinator, she has taught at several
national universities in Japan and at American universities,
including Ochanomizu University, Middlebury College and Stanford
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YUMI KONISHI (Japanese
Language Program)
Yumi Konishi is a native Japanese speaker. She received her MA in English from Loras College (Iowa), as well as an MA in Japanese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught English and Japanese as foreign languages in Canada, Japan, and the United States.
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YASUKO
KONNO BAKER (Japanese
Language Program)
Yasuko Konno Baker was born and grew up in Tokyo. She received
a Master’s Degree in Linguistics from University of South
Carolina, and another in Japanese from San Francisco State University.
She has taught Japanese and English in Japan, and has been teaching
Japanese at UC Berkeley since August 1992. Her classes are lively
and fun. She believes that it is crucial to have good communication
with her students as well as among students in order to facilitate
their learning, so she encourages students to cooperate and get
to know each other well. She has had many presentations on in-class
activities and reading-writing projects using the Internet. Her
current interests are effective use of the Internet for teachers,
and reading activities for advanced students. Her hobbies include
exercise, listening to music (The Beatles, Elvis Presley and
classical), gardening, and watching football and baseball. |
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MEEHYEI
LEE (Korean Language Program)
Meehyei Lee received
a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from Cornell University
in August 2003. She also received a Master of Arts degree in
ESL (English as a Second Language) from the State University
of New York at Stony Brook in December 1997. Her research interests
are Korean mimetic expressions, comparative analysis of sound-symbolic
systems of mimetic expressions in Korean and Japanese, and teaching
Korean as a foreign language. |
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SOOJIN
C. LEE (Korean Language Program)
Soojin
C. Lee received a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English as
a Foreign Language. She studied TESL at Ewha Woman's
University in Seoul, Korea and at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research
interests are focused on language acquisition and learning theory. Her
classes are based on a comprehensive curriculum supplemented
by multimedia materials. |
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KAREN
I HAO LI (Chinese Language Program)
I-Hao Li has been a
Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley in the Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures since 1985. Before 1985, she was a senior lecturer
and educational director of Stanford Center's Inter-University
Program in Taiwan. She has taught all levels of Chinese and trained
many university-level teachers in Taiwan and Mainland China.
She has also developed intermediate Chinese teaching materials
along with advanced curriculum that include conversation and
reading. Ms. Li has received several grants to develop Web exercises
to enhance classroom technology. |
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LI
JOANNA LIU (Chinese Language Program)
Li Joanna Liu received her B.A. in Chinese language and literature from Beijing Normal University in China in 1986 and Ph.D. in Chinese linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Since 1997, as a lecturer she has taught Mandarin for heritage and non-heritage students, Chinese Literature in Translation, and the Structure of Chinese Language. Her research interests include historical Chinese phonology, Chinese word formation and Chinese philology. Her projects in Chinese language pedagogy include developing web-based teaching materials for first year students; On-line Pinyin Exercises; and placement tests for all levels of students. Dr. Liu's experience teaching Chinese heritage students has resulted in several papers and publications include "Designing a Content-based Module for First-Year Mandarin Chinese Heritage Students"(2007) and “My Experience and Practice in Teaching Chinese Heritage Students: The Design and Use of Supplementary Reading Material for IC” (2005). She has served as a judge (2004-2006) and Chair for the Chinese Mandarin Speech Contest (1999-2001), organized annually by Chinese Language Teachers Association of California. Since 2007, she has interviewed the Regents' and Chancellor's Scholars and the CAL Opportunity Scholars for UC Berkeley.
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YURIKO MIYAMOTO CALTABIANO (Japanese
Language Program)
Yuriko Miyamoto Caltabiano was born in Tokyo, Japan. She earned her B.A. degree in Japanese Linguistics, and her M.A. degree in Applied Linguistics from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Development from University of California at Davis in the summer 2009. She has taught English and Japanese to students of all ages from elementary school children to adults in Japan, Uzbekistan, and in the U.S. She recently taught at Aragon High School in San Mateo and at ATDP summer program at UC Berkeley. Her current interests include language and identity, multiculturalism in Japan, and puppies.
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KARMA
THINLEY NGODUP (Tibetan
Language Program)
Karma was born in Tibet and grew up in India. He studied Tibetan
language, history, and Tibetan Buddhism all through High School.
He taught Tibetan language and history at Dehradun. He received
a Master's Degree in History and Geography. He came to the
United States on a Fulbright Scholarship and received his third
Master's Degree in Education from the University of Northern
Iowa. He returned to India where he became the Director of
the Tibetan Education Development and Resource Center in Dharamsala.
He published many school textbooks and storybooks for primary-level
Tibetan language education, and trained teachers in the use
of these materials. He came to Berkeley in 2002 and has been
teaching Tibetan language in the area since that time. He has
also worked on the transliteration of many rare Tibetan Buddhist
commentaries and has been the Tibetan Research Consultant for
the Electronic and Cultural Atlas Initiatives (ECAI) at CAL.
He worked on the Tibetan gazetteer project, recording
information such as names, etymology, and history from the
biography of great Buddhist scholar Je Tsongkhapa called Yellow
Beryl [baid'urya ser po]. His focus in the Tibetan Program at CAL
has been to incorporate modern language learning technology. |
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YASUE OGURO (Japanese
Language Program)
Yasue Oguro received her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has taught Japanese at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia and at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center for eleven years. Her interests are in reading and culture. Her hobbies are karate, travel, and films.
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MARI OTA (Japanese Language Program)
Mari Ota was born in Osaka, Japan. She received her B.A. in Language and
Culture (with a concentration in Linguistics) from the Osaka University of
Foreign Studies, and her M.A. in English (with a concentration in TESOL)
from San Francisco State University. She has been interested in Japanese
language since her childhood, and she really enjoys teaching at U.C.
Berkeley and a language school in San Francisco. |
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JUNGHEE PARK (Korean
Language Program)
Junghee Park earned her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics in 2007 at UCLA. She received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics and TESL in 2002 from UCLA. Prior to that she obtained an M.Ed from the Department of Foreign Language Education at Seoul National University in
Korea. She has taught English as a second language in Korea at various levels from elementary school to college. She also has extensive experience teaching Korean to beginning and intermediate level students at UCLA and has been involved in editing SAT II Korean
teaching materials. Her research interests include grammar and interaction, discourse analysis, technology-mediated (Internet and TV) communication, and communicative, task-based teaching methodologies for Korean as a second language.
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CHIKA
SHIBAHARA (Japanese Language Program)
Chika Shibahara has more than 20 years of
classroom experience teaching languages. She was born in
Osaka, and graduated from Kyoto Women's University with a
B.A. and Master's degree in English. She also holds a Master's
degree in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language
from San Francisco State University.
Ms. Shibahara's early language-related experience includes
translating and writing for magazines.
She has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley since 1993. Before
that she taught at colleges in the Bay Area as well as in
Hawaii and Washington. She is currently
in charge of 4th year Japanese. |
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MAKI
TAKATA (Japanese
Language Program)
Maki Takata earned her B.A. in Spanish at Kansai University of Foreign Languages (Kansai Gaidai Univ.) in Osaka, Japan. She also earned a second B.A. in Liberal Studies and an M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language at San Francisco State University. She has been teaching Japanese at UC Berkeley since 2006.
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MIWAKO
TOMIZUKA (Japanese Language Program)
Miwako
Tomizuka
was born and raised in Kamakura, Japan. She graduated from
Keio University with a degree in Japanese Literature. She
has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley since 1993. At UC Berkeley,
Miwako taught the Business and Technology track Japanese
for six years and is currently teaching regular track Japanese.
Before Miwako became a lecturer, she was a research assistant
at the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies for 14
years. She also taught Language and Sociology at a Japanese
Junior
and Senior High School in San Francisco for 10 years. |
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YING
LAURA YANG (Chinese Language Program)
Ying Yang received her M.A. in Teaching from the University
of Washington in 1982, and has taught Chinese as a lecturer
since 1984. She came to UC Berkeley in 1993 after teaching
first through third year Chinese at Harvard for nine years.
She has taught Elementary Chinese (including
the course for non-heritage students, the course for Mandarin
speakers, and the course for dialect speakers), as well as
Intermediate Chinese and Advanced Chinese during summer.
Currently she is in charge of Chinese 1A and 1B. |
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LIHUA ZHANG (Chinese Language Program)
Lihua Zhang, a native speaker of both Mandarin and the Shanghainese
dialect, obtained her M.A. from the University of Alberta
at Edmonton, Canada in 1987 and her Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1993, focusing
on German, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics.
In 1999 she received a Berkeley TESL certificate. She
taught German in China and the US for 13 years before
teaching Chinese as a foreign language in 1997. Since
joining the Berkeley Chinese program in 2000 she has
taught Chinese both as a foreign language and as a
heritage language. Her publications in the Chinese
language field include “What are the CHL learners
inheriting? Habitus of
the CHL learners” (co-authored, 2008), “Stepping
Carefully into Computer-Assisted Learning” (2004),
“Metaphorical thinking in Chinese shàng and xià” (1999),
“The Charm and Seduction of Brand Names” (1997),
and “The Growth of Symbols out of Icons: Evidence from
Chinese Characters” (1995).
She is the author of the book A Contrastive Study of
Aspectuality in German, English, and Chinese (1995)
and a co-editor of the book Interdigitations. Essays
for Irmengard Rauch (1999). She is interested in linguistics,
language acquisition and pedagogy as well as semiotics.
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