Professors and teaching fellows in the deparment are native speakers of Chinese and Japanese, and have earned their Ph.D. and master’s degrees in the United States. Teaching assistants are selected from native students or from students at the higher levels at Hamilton.
Jin came to Hamilton in 1989 after receiving a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She started the Chinese Program at Hamilton in 1989, and in 1996 helped establish the Associated Colleges in China program, a rigorous study abroad consortium in Beijing. Jin was named the 1998 CASE National Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year and in 1996 received Hamilton’s 1963 Award of Teaching Excellence. Jin’s primary interest is language processing and language acquisition. In addition to her books on psychology of language development and studies of language acquisition, she has published numerous articles in professional journals. Her recent research focus has been on classroom process and its effect on language acquisition, resulting in six articles published in 2004-2007 in Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association and other books. Jin is also interested in language pedagogy and is the lead author of three sets of textbooks. A two-volume series, Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China and Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China (both with DeBao Xu), was published in 2003. She was on the board of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) and was president in 2004-2005. In 2006 she was elected vice president of National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) and she will assume presidency of NCOLCTL during 2008-2010.
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Masaaki Kamiya has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Maryland at College Park. His research interests are syntax, semantics and language acquisition. Kamiya’s recent articles include ‘Passivization, Reconstruction and Edge Phenomena: connecting English and Japanese Nominalizations,’ Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 31 (with van Hout and Roeper), ‘Lexical vs. Pragmatically Derived Interpretations of Numerals,’ Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 15 (with Matsuya), ‘Two Types of Movement in Japanese Nominalizations and Edge Phenomena,’ Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17, ‘Movement of Arguments and Negative Feature,’ Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments, ‘Verbal Nouns in Japanese Are So Called for Good Reasons,’ Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 4, MITWPL 55 (with Ayano), ‘Syntactic Categories and Argument Structures of Verbal Nouns in Japanese Light Verb Construction,’ Journal of Japanese Linguistics 21, ‘Negation, Quantifiers, and A-movement in Nominalization in Japanese,’ Linguistic Analysis 35, among others.
Kyoko Omori earned her doctorate from Ohio State University in 2003. Her research focuses on 20th-century literary and popular culture, with an emphasis on mass media. She is currently completing a book titled Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu, and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism. In addition, her recently published articles and book chapters include “The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy in the Pacific Rim, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism” (2009), “Narrating the Detective: Nansensu, Benshi’s Oral Performance, and the Absurdist Detective Fiction of Tokugawa Musei” (2009), “Rajio hôsô no sengo: ‘Hanashi no izumi’ to ‘Nichiyô goraku-ban’” (The Allied Powers’ Education and Censorship Strategies in Post-WWII Japan: Radio Broadcasting in the late 1940s: 2008), “‘Finding Our Own English’: Migrancy, Identity, and Language(s) in Itô Hiromi’s Recent Prose” (2007). She has been awarded research grants from The Miller Center for Historical Studies and the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland, as well as postdoctoral fellowships from SSRC/JSPS, the Japan Foundation, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Omori was also trained in language pedagogy and is a recipient of the Hamako Ito Chaplin Award, a national award recognizing excellence in teaching Japanese.
Xu earned a master’s in history of the Chinese language at Beijing Normal University in 1985, and master’s and Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1988 and 1991 respectively. He has taught modern Chinese, classical Chinese and Chinese culture courses since 1991. Xu is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, Series of U.S. Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, and Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series. He is editor and co-author of the linguistic monograph Chinese Phonology in Generative Grammar and Generative Phonology-Theory and Usage and the co-author with Hong Gang Jin of Chinese textbooks with multimedia software Chinese Breakthrough, China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course , Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China, and Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China. In 2009, Xu initiated Hamilton-BOCES coordination with a grant from the U.S. Education Department (FLAP) and created an opportunity for Hamilton Chinese students to teach Chinese language and culture at local BOCES district schools. He is the chair of the Standing Committee of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21 Century (TCLT), an international conference sponsored by Hamilton College since 2000. The Hamilton-sponsored TCLT has more than 200 supporting institutions from 18 countries and regions, which together have sent more than 700 professionals to the biennial conferences and workshops.
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Modry Yamamoto received her bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Barnard College, and her master's degree and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on early modern Japanese and Korean women’s writings and engages themes including gender dynamics and sexuality in literature, early feminism, the relationship between education and social ideologies, and inter-minority relations. She previously taught Japanese at Sarah Lawrence College, and Japanese and Korean literatures at University of California, Berkeley.
Yihui Chen joins Hamilton as visiting instructor in the East Asian Languages & Literatures Department. She holds a master's degree in teaching Chinese as a second language and a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literatures from National Taiwan Normal University. Her most recent research focuses on behavioral culture in CFL beginner textbooks. Chen has participated in several Chinese programs both in China and Taiwan, such as Associated Colleges in China (Beijing) and Mandarin Camps in Taipei.
Xiaoming Hou is a Teaching Fellow in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department. He received a bachelor's degree from Minzu University of China and now is a graduate student majoring in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages. Hou previously worked as an external teacher for two semesters in College of International Education, Minzu University of China.
Ayako Tanemura returns to Hamilton College as a visiting instructor in Japanese. She previously served as a teaching fellow in Japanese in 2005-2006, and a visiting instructor in 2006-2007. For the past five years she taught at Harvard University, teaching all levels offered in Japanese language courses. She received her master's degree in Japanese pedagogy from the Ohio State University.
Lian Xue received a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature from Beijing Second Foreign Language University. Before working for Hamilton’s Associated Colleges in China program for five years, Xue was a senior high school teacher for three years.
The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department offers a unique three-in-one opportunity in Chinese studies: 1) individualized language classes with a multimedia-approach using digital textbooks, computerized listening/speaking exercises, homework and quizzes (along with courses in Chinese culture, literature, film and classical Chinese); 2) a Chinese concentration emphasizing the work in the original language as key to understanding the heritage, culture and current affairs of China; and 3) an off-campus study abroad opportunity in Beijing with the Associated Colleges in China program. The three-in-one in Chinese studies aims to prepare students for future studies in gradate schools and professional careers in international trade, government services, diplomacy, private business, journalism and other related fields.
As a pioneer of adopting the multimedia approach in the Chinese language teaching in 1993, the department initiated a biennial International Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21 Century in 2000, and has ever since hosted and co-sponsored four TCLT conferences providing a great opportunity for Chinese students to practice the language and to experience international events by participating the conference and talking to the distinguished speakers.
In the best liberal arts tradition, classes are small and interactive, with one-to-one engagement with teachers. Hamilton's emphasis on close student-faculty relationships is especially important in language-based programs, where continual engagement and participation are critical to learning.
With its emphasis on language proficiency and an understanding of contemporary East Asian culture, the program is excellent training for further studies in graduate school as well as professional careers in international trade, government service, diplomacy, private business, education, journalism and related fields.
The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department offers a unique three-in-one opportunity in Chinese studies: 1) individualized language classes with a multimedia-approach using digital textbooks, computerized listening/speaking exercises, homework and quizzes (along with courses in Chinese culture, literature, film and classical Chinese); 2) a Chinese concentration emphasizing the work in the original language as key to understanding the heritage, culture and current affairs of China; and 3) an off-campus study abroad opportunity in Beijing with the Associated Colleges in China program. The three-in-one in Chinese studies aims to prepare students for future studies in gradate schools and professional careers in international trade, government services, diplomacy, private business, journalism and other related fields.
As a pioneer of adopting the multimedia approach in the Chinese language teaching in 1993, the department initiated a biennial International Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21 Century in 2000, and has ever since hosted and co-sponsored four TCLT conferences providing a great opportunity for Chinese students to practice the language and to experience international events by participating the conference and talking to the distinguished speakers.
In the best liberal arts tradition, classes are small and interactive, with one-to-one engagement with teachers. Hamilton's emphasis on close student-faculty relationships is especially important in language-based programs, where continual engagement and participation are critical to learning.
With its emphasis on language proficiency and an understanding of contemporary East Asian culture, the program is excellent training for further studies in graduate school as well as professional careers in international trade, government service, diplomacy, private business, education, journalism and related fields.
The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department offers a unique three-in-one opportunity in Chinese studies: 1) individualized language classes with a multimedia-approach using digital textbooks, computerized listening/speaking exercises, homework and quizzes (along with courses in Chinese culture, literature, film and classical Chinese); 2) a Chinese concentration emphasizing the work in the original language as key to understanding the heritage, culture and current affairs of China; and 3) an off-campus study abroad opportunity in Beijing with the Associated Colleges in China program. The three-in-one in Chinese studies aims to prepare students for future studies in gradate schools and professional careers in international trade, government services, diplomacy, private business, journalism and other related fields.
As a pioneer of adopting the multimedia approach in the Chinese language teaching in 1993, the department initiated a biennial International Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21 Century in 2000, and has ever since hosted and co-sponsored four TCLT conferences providing a great opportunity for Chinese students to practice the language and to experience international events by participating the conference and talking to the distinguished speakers.
In the best liberal arts tradition, classes are small and interactive, with one-to-one engagement with teachers. Hamilton's emphasis on close student-faculty relationships is especially important in language-based programs, where continual engagement and participation are critical to learning.
With its emphasis on language proficiency and an understanding of contemporary East Asian culture, the program is excellent training for further studies in graduate school as well as professional careers in international trade, government service, diplomacy, private business, education, journalism and related fields.
The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department offers a unique three-in-one opportunity in Chinese studies: 1) individualized language classes with a multimedia-approach using digital textbooks, computerized listening/speaking exercises, homework and quizzes (along with courses in Chinese culture, literature, film and classical Chinese); 2) a Chinese concentration emphasizing the work in the original language as key to understanding the heritage, culture and current affairs of China; and 3) an off-campus study abroad opportunity in Beijing with the Associated Colleges in China program. The three-in-one in Chinese studies aims to prepare students for future studies in gradate schools and professional careers in international trade, government services, diplomacy, private business, journalism and other related fields.
As a pioneer of adopting the multimedia approach in the Chinese language teaching in 1993, the department initiated a biennial International Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21 Century in 2000, and has ever since hosted and co-sponsored four TCLT conferences providing a great opportunity for Chinese students to practice the language and to experience international events by participating the conference and talking to the distinguished speakers.
In the best liberal arts tradition, classes are small and interactive, with one-to-one engagement with teachers. Hamilton's emphasis on close student-faculty relationships is especially important in language-based programs, where continual engagement and participation are critical to learning.
With its emphasis on language proficiency and an understanding of contemporary East Asian culture, the program is excellent training for further studies in graduate school as well as professional careers in international trade, government service, diplomacy, private business, education, journalism and related fields.
