Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson plays a role.
Articles
2014 Negotiation of power and solidarity in email: The case of students learning Japanese as a foreign language and their facilitators Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:1, pp. 60–80 | Article
The issue of e-politeness has been attracting increasing attention in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. This article examines how students of Japanese as a foreign language in Australia negotiated power and solidarity in their email correspondence with ‘facilitators’ in Japan who… read more
2005 Review of Tudor (2001): The dynamics of the language classroom Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 107–109 | Review
2003 The World Wide Web as a teaching and learning resource: Observation of learners’ performance in the resource based learning of Japanese as a foreign language Asian Languages and Computers, Hoven, Debra and Jeong-Bae Son (eds.), pp. 74–90 | Article
This empirical study of Resource Based Learning in a group project in intermediate Japanese classes investigated students’ learning process during their interactions with Web resources. The learners researched an aspect of Japanese society of their choice, using different types of available… read more
1995 A learner-centred foreign language curriculum for a large, diverse group of students? yes, it is possible The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia, Kirkpatrick, Andy, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick (eds.), pp. 119–130 | Article
In the reality of learner diversity and large enrolment, how can we effectively deliver a foreign language curriculum that is learner-centred and communicatively-based, and that fosters learner autonomy? This paper proposes a curriculum innovation in which a curriculum holds two major components:… read more