Four faculty from the Department of Asian Languages & Literature have been featured in an article in UW Notebook on "New faculty books: Language instruction, the yoga of power, and more."
Zev Handel recently published Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, exploring the history of the Chinese script, particularly how it’s been changed and adapted over 2,000 years for use in non-Chinese languages.
EunYoung Won served as the primary co-author for the second edition of Korean for Dummies. The newly released edition features twenty thematically organized chapters that explore a wide range of everyday topics, including Hangeul, Korean grammar, travel, shopping, work and dining out.
And Amy Snyder Ohta and Rie Tsujihara, together with Kyoko Masuda of Georgia Tech, co-authored Concept-based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese, showcasing how concept-based language instruction can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.
Read the full article on the UW Notebook website.