Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Jun Ohashi


Professional Address

Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 4263
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Email: juno@unimelb.edu.au


Degrees, Qualifications

2001 Ph.D., The University of Melbourne
1990 M.Phil., University of Dundee, Scotland
1985 B.A. Department of Foreign Languages, Tamagawa University, Tokyo

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

1996- Lecturer, Asia Institute
1993-1996 Teaching fellow, Department of Japanese, University of Stirling, U.K.
1991-1992 Chief instructor, Japanese Language, Department of Japanese, University of Stirling, U.K.
1990-1991 Japanese language instructor, Department of Japanese, University of Stirling, U.K.

Research Interests


Major Grants, Honours, Awards


Principal Publications

Sole-authored chapter in book

  1. Ohashi, J. (1998) "Use of E-mail correspondence to facilitate the acquisition of Japanese language". In Berge, Z. and M. Collins (eds), Wired Together: The Online Classroom in K-12. New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1998, pp. 161-169. ISBN 1-57273-0935

Co-authored chapter in book

  1. Ohashi, J., Ohashi, H. and Paltridge, B. (2008) "Finishing the dissertation while on tenure track: Enlisting support from inside and outside the academy". In Casanave, C. and L. Xiaoming (eds), Learning the literacy practices of graduate school (pp.218-229), Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Sole-authored papers

  1. Ohashi, J. (forthcoming) Natural Conversation Reconstruction Tasks: The language classroom as a meeting place. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies.
  2. Ohashi, J.  (2008) Thanking episodes among young Japanese: A preliminary qualitative investigation. Japanese Studies. Vol.28, 3. 293-306.
  3. Ohashi, J., (2008) Linguistic rituals for thanking in Japanese: Balancing obligations, Journal of Pragmatics.
  4. Ohashi, J. (2004) Pragmatics of o-rei ­ Japanese cultural way of thanking: Some teaching implications. In (Ed.) G. Wigglesworth, Refereed conference proceedings for Language education in Australian and New Zealand universities, 130-141.
  5. Ohashi, J. (2003) Japanese culture specific face and politeness orientation: A pragmatic investigation of yoroshiku onegaishimasu. Multilingua 22, 257-274.
  6. Ohashi, J. (2000) Japanese interlanguage transfer: effects of the Asian language/cultural backgrounds in acquisition of pragmatic competence in Japanese. Refereed conference proceedings for the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (p. 123-136)
  7. Ohashi, J. (1999) Speech act realisations of Chinese and Australian learners of Japanese when observing imbalances of social equilibrium. Refereed conference proceedings for the International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies
  8. Ohashi, J. (1995) Communication Strategies: are they worth teaching? Japanese-Language Education around the Globe, Vol. 5: 61-74, The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute.

Co-authored papers

  1. Ohashi, J. and H. Ohashi (1995) Teaching Ageru/Mureru/Morau in Context: Theory to Practice. Journal of Japanese Linguistics and Education Vol. 2: 109-129, Nagoya gakuin University.
  2. Ohashi, J. and H. Ohashi (1993) Designing Tasks for Learner-Centred Teaching: Suggestions for meaningful tasks. Japanese-Language Education around the Globe, Vol. 3: 49-61, The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute.

PhD thesis

Ohashi, J. (2001) Giving, receiving, and thanking in Japanese: A cross-cultural pragmatic investigaton. Unpublished PhD thesis submitted to the department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of the University of Melbourne

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