Lecturer, Japanese Applied Linguistics
Biography
Ph.D., Japanese Applied Linguistics, University of Washington, 2023
M.A., Japanese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
M.A., Applied Linguistics, Texas Tech University, 2012
Research
Selected Research
- Masuda, Kyoko, Ohta, Amy Snyder and Tsujihara, Rie (under contract, to appear in 2024). Concept-Based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese. Routledge.
- Tsujihara, R. (2022). Teaching the Japanese Aspectual form Teiru using Concept-Based Language Instruction (C-BLI) in an Intact Beginning-Level Classroom. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 9(1), 91-121.
- Tsujihara, R. (2017). An application of sociocultural theory to teaching aspect in Japanese: Developing learners conceptual understanding through concept-based instruction. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2017. Portland, OR, USA. March 18-21, 2017.
- Masuda, K., Ohta, A.S., & Tsujihara, R. (2017). New directions for informed language pedagogy from sociocultural theory and cognitive linguistics. XXIV Sociocultural Theory & Second Language Learning Research Working Group Meeting. Las Vegas, NV, USA. November 2-4, 2017.
- Masuda, K., Ohta, A.S., & Tsujihara, R. (2017). Shakaibunka riron to ninchi gengogaku no yuuwa o mezashite: Asupekuto maakaa ‘teiru’ no jissen rei. The 28th Japanese-as-Second-Language-Acquisition (JASLA) Conference, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. December 16-17, 2017
- Tsujihara, R (2018). Teaching aspectual form in Japanese using concept-based instruction (CBI): A case study of intermediate learners. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2018. Chicago, IL, USA. March 24-27, 2017.The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2017. Portland, OR, USA. March, 2017.
- Ohta, A. S., & Tsujihara, R. (2016). Durativity in Japanese: A conceptual approach to instructed SLA. The 35th Second Language Research Forum. New York, NY, USA. September 23-24, 2016.
- Tsujihara, R. (2014). Development of the Pragmatic Marker n desu in the Japanese Classroom. 19th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning. Bloomington, IN, USA. April 24-26, 2014.
Courses Taught
Summer 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2023
Autumn 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Additional Courses
2018 Spring JAPAN 213: Second Year Japanese
2018 Winter JAPAN 212: Second Year Japanese
2018 Autumn JAPAN 211: Second Year Japanese
2017 Summer JAPAN 334: Third Year Intensive Japanese
2016 Summer JAPAN 334: Third Year Intensive Japanese
2015 Summer JAPAN 334 : Third Year Intensive Japanese