Rie Tsujihara | Asian Languages & Literature

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Japanese Applied Linguistics

Contact Information

rtsuji@uw.edu

GWN 247

Office Hours

Mondays, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30pm

Fields of Interest

Applied Linguistics discourse analysis Japanese Language Pedagogy Pragmatics Second Language Acquisition

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

Winter 2025

JAPAN 441 A: The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second or Foreign Language

Autumn 2024

Summer 2024

Spring 2023

JAPAN 443 A: Topics in Japanese Sociolinguistics

Autumn 2022

Summer 2022

JAPAN 334 AA: Third-Year Intensive Japanese

Spring 2022

JAPAN 443 A: Topics in Japanese Sociolinguistics

Winter 2022

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

Rie Tsujihara (she/her)