Ms Kiyomi Yamada
Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
B.A. (Keio), Grad. DipEd (LOTE-Japanese, ESL) and MEd (TESOL)(UNE), PhD Candidate (Monash)
Contact
| Email: | kyamada2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | 208 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3028 (or +61 2 6773 3028 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3735 |
Kiyomi has qualifications and expertise in teaching both English and Japanese. She was originally trained as an EFL teacher and taught in private English language schools and a company in Japan for nine years. She also taught Japanese language and culture at two high schools in Victoria for two years. Besides teaching, she worked as a freelance translator for several years for various companies including a publishing firm in Tokyo, for which she translated foreign magazines. Kiyomi completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Master of Education at the University of New England. She then taught Japanese language and culture for two years and ESL to international students for three years at UNE. She has now returned to the Japanese Discipline and has been teaching Japanese language and culture units since the beginning of 2007. She has coordinated and taught a variety of units including Japanese language units (e.g. JAPN 201/202, JAPN301/302, JAPN421/422) and the Japanese literature and cinema components of CIJ110 (Cultural Expression in Modern Asia).
Kiyomi is currently studying a PhD (part-time) in Japanese Studies at Monash University on Japanese academic written and oral genres. Her research interests include genres, discourse analysis, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and intercultural communication.
Conference Papers
Yamada, K. 2009, Supervisors‚ use of mitigation strategies in supervisory conferences for Japanese undergraduate thesis writing, paper delivered at the JSAA-ICJLE (International Japanese Studies Association of Australia-International Conference on Japanese Language Education) International Conference 2009, The University of New South Wales/The University of Sydney, Sydney, July 13-16.
Yamada, K. 2007, Comparison of supervisory meetings for two Japanese undergraduate students' socialisation into new discourse communities, paper delivered at the Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, November 29-December 1.
Yamada, K. 2007, Individual supervisory interactions in Japanese undergraduate students' enculturation into a research genre, paper delivered at the ALAA National Congress (32nd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia), The University of Wollongong, July 1-3.
Yamada, K. 2005, Language difficulties and EAP needs of Japanese students enrolled in an Australian university, paper and workshop delivered at The TESOL on the Beach Conference, Coffs Harbour, September 16-17.
Woodman, K., Miller, S., Tasker, I., Yamada, K. and Van Aacken, S. 2003, Motivating external Asian language study: What online learners have to say, paper delivered at Making Our Difference: A Conference on Language Education in Australian and New Zealand Universities, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, October 1-3.
Woodman, K., Miller, S., Tasker, I., Yamada, K. and Van Aacken, S. 2003, Motivating external Asian language study: Online learners speak out!, paper delivered at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, March 22-25.
Publications
Yamada, K. 2009. The supervisory conference: academic socialisation and the thesis genre. In Making a Difference: Challenges for Applied Linguistics, edited by H. Chen and K. Cruickshank. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 154-170.
Yamada, K., 2003, Japanese students‚ perceptions of difficulties with study activities at an Australian university, ASAA e-journal of Asian Linguistics and Language Teaching, No. 5, Read online