Biography
Keiko Hata is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures. Her research interests include Japanese language pedagogy, second language (L2) acquisition, L2 processing, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese sociolinguistics. She has taught all levels of Japanese language, Japanese Culture, and Japanese Linguistics at various universities in the U.S. and Japan.
Works
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Predictive Functions of WA and GA in L1 and L2 Japanese. EALL Working Papers in Linguistics and Literatures 1, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
2015 Shadowing as a Learning Process for Japanese Grammar – Establishing a Case from an Emergentism Viewpoint –. Proceedings of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2015 Children’s Interpretation of Japanese Particles in Complex Sentences. Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2014 Japanese-speaking Children’s WA/GA Distinction for Subject Ellipsis Resolution in Complex Sentences. Proceedings of the 18th College-wide Conference for Graduate Students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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