Jun Yano, Lecturer
Biography
Qualifications
Contact Details
Subjects Taught
Supervision
Research Interests
Publications
Biography
I graduated from the International Christian University where I majored in Intercultural Communication and Applied Japanese Linguistics (Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language). I came to Australia in 1980 to teach at Monash after having taught at St. Joseph Language Institute of Japanese in Tokyo. While teaching at Monash, I completed my research Masters degree in Japanese Applied Linguistics (Thesis title: ' Romajigo in Japanese Press', 1988).
I was fortunate to have had a teaching and research career under then Chair and Head of the Department of Japanese Studies, Professor Neustupny, spanning a period of enormous growth and change in Japanese language education and Japanese Studies in Australia. I am now a lecturer in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
I am a member of the four authors of the Hospitality English Japanese Dictionary which was published in December 2000.
I have had a long interest in the Japanese Speech Contest, having served as a member of the Victorian steering committee to the state and national speech contest for many years.
I was the coordinator of the Japanese Exchange Program in the School between 1995 and 2001. The Exchange Program caters for students who want to study at one of eleven official exchange partner universities in Japan. More than 300 Monash students have been on exchange to Japan since 1995. Most of them have been successful in receiving scholarships that include the Japanese Students Service Organisation Japan Scholarship (formerly known as AIEJ), Monbusho Scholarship and many others.
I like communicating with people. I chose to become a Japanese teacher because I thought it would be wonderful if I could communicate with people from all over the world in my language. When I first started to teach at Monash there were very few students from overseas or from ethnic backgrounds. Now I can see in my classes that Australia is truly a multicultural society. I enjoy being in class communicating with such students.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (International Christian University, Tokyo)
Master of Arts (Monash University)
Contact details
| Room: | 428 Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton Campus |
| Phone: | (03) 9905 2276 (international: 61 3 9905 2276) |
| Email: | jun.yano@arts.monash.edu.au |
| Fax: | (03) 9905 5437 (international: 61 3 9905 5437) |
| Mailing Address: | Ms Jun
Yano School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics PO Box 11A Monash University Australia 3800 |
Subjects Taught
I currently coordinate and teach a lower intermediate language subject called Japanese 3 and 4 . I give the lecture , tutorials and seminars at Clayton Campus .
On top of my undergraduate teaching duties, I will teach a postgraduate subject called Japanese systematic grammar in which Japanese grammar will be examined from the point of view of teaching Japanese as a foreign language. I also regularly supervise students who are enrolled in the Translation Project in the Master of Interpreting and Translation.
Supervision
Recent topics include:
- The elocutionary types of sentences in maternal speech to children
- Analysis of errors in Japanese discourse in terms of viewpoint
- Translation projects
- "The Back I want to Kick" by Risa Wataya
- Korean Wave and Resident Koreans
Research interests
My research interests are in the area of socio-linguistics, Japanese grammar and Japanese background speakers' adaptation to Australia :
Japanese background speakers in Victorian secondary colleges
Teaching kanji
Development of teaching material employing the interactive method
I am currently engaged in a research project with members of the University of Melbourne and Saga University in Japan under the topic "Japanese exchange students in Australia in terms of the globalisation of Japan."
Publications
2007 Co-written with Kubota, M., “Performance Management at universities in Australia: Its history, current situation and Future”, Journal of Oceanian Education Studies, pp. 55 ~ 67, Tokyo.
2005 Co-written with Kubota, M., Asaoka, T., “Japanese background speakers studying Japanese at high schools in Melbourne, Australia”, Japanese Language Education 2, pp.13 ~ 24, Hong Kong.
2005 Co-written with Asaoka, T., Kubota, M., “Japanese Proficiency of Background Speakers at High School in Victoria, Australia”, Annual Report of Saga University Research Activities, pp. 354 ~378, Saga.
2004 "Diversity of Japanese Background Speakers in Secondary Schools in Victoria and Its Implications to VCE" Journal of Society of Japanese Language Education, Hong Kong
2004 "Diversity of Japanese Background Speakers in Secondary Schools in Victoria", Journal of Oceanian Education Studies
2004 "Japanese background speakers at secondary schools in Victoria, Australia- part 3", Research Journal of Saga University
2004 "Teaching Japanese and Current Status of Exchange Program in Australia", Final report on the project, 'Comparative Study on Short Term Exchange Systems/
2003 "Exchange Program and its problems and Possible Solutions", Journal of Koide Kinen Kenkyuukai
2000 Hospitality English-Japanese Dictionary Hospitality Press