Curriculum Vitae
Dr Sayuki MachidaJapanese Studies Professional AddressAsia Institute Tel: +61 3 8344 8108 |
Degrees, Qualifications
| 1996 | Ph.D. University of Queensland,
Queensland, Australia Thesis Title: Interlanguage: A Case Study of Japanese Acquisition by English Speakers |
| 1988 | M.Ed. Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| 1976 | B.A. Dip.Ed. Kumamoto Prefectural University, Japan |
Award
2008 Barbara Falk award: Excellence in teaching for Arts, Education, Law, and Music, University of Melbourne.
Committees, Memberships
- Member of American Applied Linguistics Association (AALA)
- Member of Applied Linguistics Association in Australia (ALAA)
- Member of of Japanese Studies Association in Australia (JSAA)
- Member of Japanese Studies Centre (JSC)
- Member of Japanese Language Teachers' Association in Victoria (JLTAV)
Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held
| 2009 - | Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute |
| 1999-2004 | Coordinator of Japanese Language Program at Asia Institute |
| 1998- | Lecturer, Asia Institute |
| 1997-1998 | Lecturer, Department of Japanese and Chinese, The University of Melbourne |
| 1994-1996 | Associate Lecturer in Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia |
| 1991-1993 | Specialist Tutor in Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia |
| 1989-1991 | Tutor (sessional) in Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia |
| 1987-1988 | Visiting Lecturer of Japanese (sessional), Department of Chinese, Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| 1980-1986 | Language course and teaching material development, Teacher training |
| 1978-1986 | Staff member, Educational Research and Training Department, ECC Foreign Language Institute, Osaka, Japan |
| 1978-1980 | School management, EFL teaching Staff member, Fukuoka School of ECC Foreign Language Institute, Fukuoka, Japan |
Research Interests
- Interlanguage (learner language)
- Japanese as a foreign language (such as reading, comprehension of Japanese text, oral examination anxiety)
- Language and culture
- Intercultural communications
- Text analysis
- Text comprehension
- Teaching methodologies: CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning); Collaborative project learning; translation as a teaching method
Principal Publications
Book Chapter
Machida, S. (2009) Reading L2 text - how more and less skilled learners read L2 text?" In A. Mahboob, C. Lipovsky (Eds.) Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning, Chapter 15, pp 271-288. Newcastle: UK, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Refereed Articles
- Machida, S. (1991). "Interlanguage study: a progress report on Japanese acquisition by English speakers in an Australian context". Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference, ANU, Vol. 3, July 1991, pp. 106-116.
- Machida, S. (2000). "Previous kanji knowledge in Japanese text comprehension". Melbourne Papers in University Language Teaching, 1, 74-96.
- Machida, S. (2001). "Collaborative work and its effects on language learning in as Japanese as a foreign language classroom". Language Victoria, 5, 4:15-22.
- Machida, S. (2001). "Japanese text comprehension by Chinese and non-Chinese background learners". System, 29, 103-118.
- Machida, S. (2001). "Test Anxiety in Japanese language class oral examinations". Japanese-Language Education around the Globe, 11, 115-138.
- Machida, S. (2001). "Anxiety and oral performance in a foreign language test situation". Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 24-1, 31-50.
- Machida, S. (2003). "Computer Assisted Group Project Activities in a Beginner's Japanese Foreign Language Class". Occasional Thematic Issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Special Issue on Asian languages a nd computers, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S. 17, 44-59.
- Machida, S. (2003). "Introduction of computer mediated activities to a beginners' course of Japanese as a foreign language". Working Papers No. 13, Language teaching at the crossroads. Japanese Studies Centre. Monash University Press.
- Machida, S. (2004). Japanese text comprehension and teaching as a non-native language: a reflection on experience and research. Text Understanding and Learning: The effects of text’s linguistic features on comprehension and memory, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No 14380119.Graduate School of Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies, Centre for Language Sciences. March, 2003. pp39-60.
- Machida, S. (2006). "Integrating Collaboration in Tertiary Education." The Journal of Learning, 12, Issue 6, 97-106. (2006)
- Machida, S. (2008). "A step forward to using translation to teach a foreign/second language". Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5. Supplementary 1, pp 126-139.
PhD Thesis
"Interlanguage: a case study of Japanese acquisition by English speakers", Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Queensland. (1996).
Book Review
Machida, S. (1997). Review of An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Natsuko Tsujimura, Cambridge; Mass, Blackwell Publisher, 1996. The Japanese Studies Association of Australia Bulletin, 17, 2-3:143-145.
Co-edited textbooks
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Early Bird Series (8 Levels of EFL textbooks for children: each level comprises of a
main textbook, a workbook, an activity book and cassette tape(s), plus teachers
manual), ECC Foreign Language Institute, Osaka, JAPAN, 1986.
Major reports
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Essays on Japanese Studies in Australia and New Zealand Universities - University of Melbourne.
In Directory of Japanese Studies in Australia and New Zealand. The Japan Foundation in association
with The Australia-Japan Research Centre. ISBN 0 86413 293 X (2004).