Global and International Studies Building, 2022
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
Research Interests
- Japanese sociolinguistics
- Applied linguistics
- Second language acquisition
- Language ideologies
- Japanese dialects and speech styles
- Japanese honorifics and linguistic politeness
- Japanese as a foreign language
- Foreign language pedagogy
Courses
- EALC-J 301: Third-year Japanese I
- EALC-J 302: Third-year Japanese II
- EALC-E 270: Japanese Language and Society
- EALC-J 313: Business Japanese
Bio
Jae DiBello Takeuchi is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Dr. Takeuchi conducts research in Japanese sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and foreign language pedagogy. Her research focuses on the experiences of Japanese second language speakers who are long-term residents of Japan. She is particularly interested in how they navigate Japanese speech styles, such as dialects and keigo, which they encounter in local communities, workplaces, and leisure activities. At Indiana University, Dr. Takeuchi teaches courses in Japanese language and sociolinguistics. Before coming to Indiana, she taught Japanese at Clemson University and served as the director of the Languages and International Business program.
Dr. Takeuchi’s 2023 book Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan examines native speaker bias and L2 speaker legitimacy. Her recent projects focus on linguistic microaggression and consider how speaker identity and markers such as accent impact L2 speakers’ acceptance in Japanese communities.