Nakama 1: Introductory Japanese

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is known nationwide as one of

the premier Japanese methodologists in the United States and as an experienced

coordinator of large teacher-training programs. She has served as the coordinator of

the Japanese language program at the University of Iowa and is currently professor

of the Department of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language at Hiroshima

University, where her primary responsibilities are teacher training and SLA research.

Professor Kazumi Hatasa received his Ph.D. in education in 1989 from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a professor at Purdue

University and Chair of Department of East Asian Languages. He was Director of

the Japanese School at Middlebury College from 2005 to 2018. He is recognized

internationally for his work in the development of instructional software and online

resources for the Japanese language. He has also been active in incorporating

traditional performing art in language instruction.

Professor Seiichi Makino is an emeritus Professor of Japanese and Linguistics at

Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1968 from the University

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally prominent Japanese

linguist and scholar, recognized throughout the world for his scholarship and for

his many publications. Before beginning his tenure at Princeton University in 1991,

he taught Japanese language, linguistics and culture at the University of Illinois

while training lower-division language coordinators. He is an experienced ACTFL

oral proficiency trainer in Japanese and frequently trains Japanese instructors

internationally in proficiency-oriented instruction and in the administration of the

Oral Proficiency Interview.