KiyomiKawakami

  • Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese
Kiyomi Kawakami
Address

Arts & Sciences Office Building 1 (OB1), Suite 3 - M141

Office Hours

Mon & Tue: 11:30 am-12:00 pm or by appointment

Kiyomi Kawakami joined the CU faculty in August 2018. She earned MA degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Eastern Michigan University, 2003) and Japanese Linguistics (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006), and completed substantial work toward a PhD in Japanese Linguistics (ABD, comprehensive examination completed in 2010), also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to CU, she taught Japanese at a number of different institutions, including the University of Iowa, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan, and Eastern Michigan University.

Selected publications (Teaching-related only)

  • “An Exploratory Group Testing in a Beginning Level Japanese Course: Aiming for Supporting the Post-pandemic JFL Learners.” Japanese Language Education in Europe 27: 171-183. web. May 1. 2024
  • “The participation structure of learners of Japanese in triadic free conversation: Shifting from the role of side-participant to speaker.” Journal CAJLE 18 (2017):43-68. web. August 1. 2017
  • “An analysis on the participation structure of learners of Japanese in triadic free conversation: What we can do for learners utilizing opportunities to use the language and to connect with others.” Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education Annual Conference 2016 Proceeding (2016): 105-114. web. October 1. 2016
  • “Toward ‘emphatic free conversation’: What we can do for learners of Japanese as a foreign language to construct social relations through conversation.” Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education Annual Conference 2015 Proceeding (2015): 46-55. web. October 1. 2015
  • “Towards the awareness rising and cultivation of conversational skills, addressing Japanese speaking community with diversity: An analysis of free conversation between learners of Japanese.” Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education Annual Conference 2014 Proceeding (2014): 46-55. web. October 1. 2014

Selected conference presentations (Teaching-related only)

  • “‘I Am Better than ChatGPT,’ An Exploratory Project of Observation on AI-Generated Conversation to Cultivate Students’ Analytical Eye on Japanese Conversation.” Presenter. International Conference on Japanese Language Education 2024, Madison, WI, August 2024
  • “An Exploratory Group Testing in a Beginning Level Japanese Course: Aiming for Supporting the Post-pandemic JFL Learners.” Presenter, 26th Conference of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE)/EAJS2023: 17th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Brussels, Belgium, August 2023
  • “Participants’ Attitude toward ZOOM Conversation Table among JFL Learners.”Presenter,the Annual Conference of American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2022, Boston, MA, November 2022
  • “Students’ perspectives on learning with YouTube: Possibilities for a diversity of autonomous language learning through media.” Presenter, The Annual Spring Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese 2022 (AATJ), March 2022
  • “An Analysis of Teacher-student Interview Conversation on Course Project.”Presenter,the Annual Conference of ACTFL 2020, Online, November 2020
  • “An Analysis of Free Conversation Between Intermediate/Advanced Learners.”.Presenter,the Annual Conference of ACTFL 2018, New Orleans, LA, November 2018
  • “Energizing Our Favorite Town: An ExploratoryProject in Podcasting to Introduce the Town in which Students Liveduring a Summer Intensive Course.” Presenter,The Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Washington, D.C., March 2018
  • “Student-led trials with on-campus Japanese radio streaming; An observation on building of communities of practice among Japanese language learners.” Presenter, The Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 2017
  • “An analysis on the participation structure of learners of Japanese in triadic free conversation: What we can do for learners utilizing opportunities to use the language and to connect with others.” Presenter, Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education Annual Conference 2016, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 2016
  • “Emphatic moments in free conversation between learners of Japanese as a foreign language: Toward the cultivation of social relations through conversation” Presenter, The Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Chicago, IL, March 2015
  • “Towards the cultivation of conversational skills: An analysis of free conversation between learners of Japanese as a foreign language.” Presenter,the Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese, Philadelphia (AATJ), PA, March 2014
  • “Debate Activity in an Early Advanced Course in Japanese and Students’ Questionnaire” Presenter, The Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 2012

Research Interests:

Japanese Conversation Analysis, Community building among language learners, Japanese Pedagogy