2001-2003 Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, IL, USA)
M.A. in TESOL (received in May 2003)
Major Courses: Theory and Methods of TESOL, Pedagogical Grammar, SLA,
Error Analysis, CALL, TESOL Practicum, Bilingualism, Assessment
1998-2001 Nagoya University (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
M.S. in Cognitive Psychology (received in March 2001)
Major Courses: Behavior and Information Processing, Theory of Cognitive
Information Processing, Linguistic Informatics, Cognitive Informatics, Theory of
Human Models
Wrote M.S. thesis on A study on the English sentence processing by Japanese
learners of English: focusing on the differences in syntactic structure between
English and Japanese
1993-1998 Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Kobe, Hyogo, Japan)
B.A. in Foreign Studies (received in March 1998)
Major Courses: English Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Teaching
Method of English, Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Wrote B.A. thesis on Theories about the developmental changes of infant's
sound discrimination ability: a review and criticism
Experience:
2003 English Substitute Teacher (September/ October, Okinawa, Japan)
Taught English in Tomishiro Minami High School and Naha Nishi High School
as a substitute teacher in September and in October
1999-2001 English and Japanese Instructor (Nagoya, Japan)
Taught English to students aged from twelve to eighteen; and taught Japanese to
elementary and junior high school students at preparatory schools
1993-2000 English Tutor (1993-1998: Kobe/ 1999-2000: Nagoya)
Gave private English lessons to junior and senior high school students
Awards:
2001-2003 Scholarship (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Okinawa International Exchange and Human Resource Development Foundation
1998-2001 Scholarship (Nagoya University)
The Japan Scholarship Society or Nihon Ikueikai
Memberships:
2003-present TESOL(Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
2000-2002 The Japan Association for Language Teaching