Yasuko Ito Watt

Email:

ywatt@indiana.edu

Education

• EdD, Columbia University, 1991

Research Interests

• Japanese language
• Language pedagogy
• Applied linguistics

Awards and Distinctions

• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Board of Examiners, 2002-
• Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Award, 2000
• Tuttle Language Grant for Asian Language Publication (Honorable mention), 1999
• President's Award (All University Distinguished Teaching Award), March 2, 1996
• U.S. Department of Education Grant (Institutional grant), Enhancing Japanese Language Education in Secondary Schools in Indiana, with Earlham College, 1994-96. ($187,000)

Publication Highlights

• With Akira Miura. Nihon o shiroo [Let's Learn about Japan]. (2001) Tokyo: ALC Press.
• "Teaching the Japanese Demonstrative ANO: Lessons from an Analysis of ANO in a Work of Modern Japanese Literature." (2001) Canadian Association of Japanese Language Journal.
• Co-editor and contributor. Japanese National Standards: Learning Scenarios. (2000). (Indexed by ERIC ED 445 527.
• With Richard Rubinger. Readers' Guide to Intermediate Japanese. University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
• "Attrition and Performance in Japanese Language Courses: A Study of Articulation Between the High School and University Levels." Foreign Language Annals, 30, No.3 (1997), pp.327-334.