
Yuki Yoshimura
Japanese Language Program Director
Linguistics & Japanese Joint Major Advisor
Contact details
Location
Herter Hall 329
161 Presidents Dr
AMHERST, MA 01003
United States
About
Yuki Yoshimura is the Director of the Japanese Language Program and the Co-Chair of the Language Teaching & Research Lab. She received her PhD in Second Language Acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include sentence processing in second language acquisition, speech fluency, task-based language teaching, extensive reading in Japanese, and bilingualism. She teaches Japanese Language (1st year to graduate level), Japanese Linguistics, Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, and Extensive Reading in Japanese. Some recent articles with B. MacWhinney include “The use of pronominal case in English sentence interpretation," “Honorifics as a socio-cultural verb agreement cue in Japanese," and “The effect of oral repetition in L2 Speech Fluency: System for an experimental tool and a language tutor."