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Weisi CaiWEISI CAI (Chinese Language Program)
Weisi Cai, received her B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from Beijing Language and Culture University and M.A. in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She previously taught advanced Chinese in Stanford Center's Inter-University Program in Beijing, and most recently taught Chinese of elementary and intermediate levels at Brown University. Her research interests include the interface of Chinese morphology and second language acquisition, and the incidental vocabulary learning.
 
     
 
Seung-Eun ChangSEUNG-EUN CHANG (Korean Language Program)
Seung-Eun Chang received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas, Austin, 2007, specializing in Phonology and Phonetics. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include theoretical and experimental Phonology and Phonetics, Korean Linguistics, Language variations (regional and historical) and Second Language Acquisition.
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Hsiu-Hsia HsuHSIU-HSIA HSU (Chinese Language Program)
Hsiu-hsia Hsu received her BA from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and her M.A. from the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. Her research focuses on pedagogies for Chinese grammar. She has taught at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP, formerly IUP) at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and in the US at the Middlebury College Chinese Language School and was a visiting instructor at UC Berkeley from 2006 to 2008.
 
     
 
Kayoko ImagawaKAYOKO IMAGAWA (Japanese Language Program)
Kayoko Imagawa received her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language from San Francisco State University and has taught Japanese to students of all ages from elementary school children through adults. She has taught at Castilleja School (middle and high school) in Palo Alto and at several language school in San Francisco prior to coming to UC Berkeley in 2006. She is interested in effective uses of technology in the classroom as well as Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
 
     
 

Wakae KambaraWAKAE 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.

 
     
 

Minsook KimMINSOOK 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.

 
     
 

Kijoo KoKIJOO 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).

 
 

 

 
 

Noriko Komatsu WallaceNORIKO 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 University.

 
     
 

Yasuko Konno BakerYASUKO 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.

 
     
 

Meehyei LeeMEEHYEI 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.

 
     
 
Soojin LeeSOOJIN 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.
 
     
 

I Hao LiKAREN 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.

 
     
 
Hsin-Yu LinHSIN-YU LIN (Chinese Language Program)
Hsinyu Lin received her M.A. from the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She has taught Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University, UC Davis, Princeton in Beijing (summer intensive program), and University of Heidelberg. She has also participated in compiling Chinese textbooks for German learners during her tenure in NTNU. Her research interests include Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics and syntactic structures and developing Chinese language instructional materials.
 
     
 

Li LiuLI 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.

 
     
 
Miki Maeda-WoodMIKI MAEDA-WOOD (Japanese Language Program)
Miki Maeda-Wood was born in Tokyo, Japan. She earned her B.A. in English from the School of Education at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. She earned her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language at San Francisco State University. She has taught Japanese to a wide age range of students. Her hobbies include cooking, exercising, playing the piano, and enjoying music and the arts.
 
     
 

Yuriko Miyamoto CaltabianoYURIKO 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 Linguistics (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.

 
     
 

Junghee ParkJUNGHEE 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.

 
     
 

Chika ShibaharaCHIKA 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.

 
     
 
Gareth SparhamGARETH SPARHAM (Tibetan Language Program)
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Maki TakataMAKI 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.

 
     
 
Chen-Hui TsaiCHEN-HUI TSAI (Chinese Language Program)
Chen-hui Tsai received her bachelor degree of Chinese literature from National Taiwan University in Taiwan, and earned an M.A. in Asian civilization specializing in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the University of Iowa (UI) in US. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Foreign Language Acquisition, Research, and Education at UI. Before joining UC Berkeley, Chen-hui had taught Mandarin Chinese at various levels as first language in Taiwan and as foreign language at the UI, Beloit College, and Michigan State University. She has worked on computer-assisted language learning programs of various scales, including independent projects and collaborative multimedia programs funded by the US Department of Education. Her research interests are focused on educational technology and SLA. [HOMEPAGE]
 
     
 
Lihua ZhangLIHUA ZHANG (Chinese Language Program Co-Ordinator)
Lihua Zhang, a native speaker of both Mandarin and the Shanghainese dialect, obtained her M.A. from the University of Alberta in 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 taught Chinese both as a foreign language and as a heritage language from elementary to advanced levels. She developed the curriculum of Mandarin Chinese for dialect-speaking learners and wrote and complied substantial innovative online and paper-based instructional materials for the courses she taught and developed. She is a strong proponent of meaningful and effective integration of multimedia in the language classroom and fosters learners to be involved in intercultural exchange with target language speakers via internet. Her publications in the Chinese language education field include “Teaching Chinese cultural perspectives through film”, “What are the CHL learners inheriting? Habitus of the CHL learners” (co-authored), “Stepping carefully into computer-assisted learning”, “Metaphorical thinking in Chinese shàng and xià”, “The charm and seduction of brand names”, and “The growth of symbols out of icons: Evidence from Chinese characters”. 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 (1999). Her current interests focus on applied linguistics and foreign/heritage language and culture pedagogy.

 
     
     

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