Imai Shingo

Biography

Career history 1984-04 - 1988-03 Hoshino Gakuen Kawagoe Higashi High School Japanese Language Teaching Teacher 1990-09 - 1993 - 10 Visiting lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines (Japan Foundation Japanese Language Education Expert) 1993-11 - 1995-08 Full-time lecturer at the Japan Foundation Japanese International Center 1999 - 06 - 2002 - 06 Japan Foundation New Delhi Office Japanese Language Education Advisor (Japanese Education Expert) 2002-07 - 2007 - 03 Yamaguchi University University Education Organization International Student Center Associate Professor 2007-04 - 2010 - 03 Associate Professor, Yamaguchi University University Education Organization International Student Center 2010-04 - (current) University of Tsukuba International Humanities and Social Sciences International Studies / Professor at International Student CenterAcademic background 1988-04 - 1990 - 03 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language Major in Japanese Language Studies Completed 1995-09 - 2003-02 State University of New York at Buffalo Department of Linguistics CompletedDegree 1998-06 MA State University of New York at Buffalo 2003-02 Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo 1990-03 Master of literature Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesAcademic societies - (current) Japan Cognitive Linguistics Society - (current) THE SOCIETY FOR TEACHING JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE - (current) The Japan Language Testing Association - 2013-03 Japan Test Society

Research Interest

Japanese Grammar, (Modality, Case, Passive, Japanese Educational Grammar) Cognitive Linguistics (Spatial Deixis, Spatial Expressions) Japanese Learner's Dictionary Japanese Computerized Adaptive Test