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Nobuko Chikamatsu
nchikama@depaul.edu
Associate Professor, Japanese Program Director
Modern Languages; Japanese; Global Asian Studies
SAC 312​
B.A. in English Literature, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan
M.A. in TESOL, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Japanese Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Language pedagogy, content-based instruction, translation
Second Language (L2) Acquisition
Japanese pedagogy
Psycholinguistics (word recognition)
L2 Reading and Writing
Japanese Peace Education (Hiroshima, Japanese American Internment, etc.)
Japanese American History in Chicago
Chikamatsu, N. (forthcoming). Social Responsibility and Community-based Learning in the post-disaster society, Ch.7 in CCBI Japanese Pedagogy, S. Sato, Y. Kumagai (eds). Tokyo: Coco Press.
Chikamatsu, N . (2012). "Communication with community: Connecting an individual to the world through Japanese content-based instruction of Japanese American History." Journal of Japanese Language and Literature, 46, 171-199.
Chikamatsu, N (2011). "Language as an essential element for human thought processes: Critical and creative thinking in content-based instruction", Journal of Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 12, 1-20.
Chikamatsu, N. (2006). "Developmental word recognition: A study of L1 English readers of L2 Japanese." The Modern Language Journal, 90, 1-19.
Chikamatsu, N. (2003). "The effects of computer usage on L2 Japanese writing." Foreign Language Annals, 36, 114-127. (2003).
Chikamatsu, N. (1996). "The effects of L1 orthography on L2 Japanese word recognition." Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18, 403-432.