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Faculty Information

MASAFUMI HONDA

Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and Linguistics

Japanese Studies Coordinator (2011-2013)

Email: masafumi@hawaii.edu

Office: K212

masafumi Honda

Education

  • Ed. D., Foreign Language Education, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., June 1988
  • M.Ed., English Education, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, June 1984
  • Research Assistant, Play Therapy and Counseling, Exceptional Education, University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, April - Aug. 1982
  • B.A., English Education as a Foreign Language, University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, March 1982

Teaching

1993 - present Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, Department of Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo
1988 - 1993 Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, Department of Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo
1987 - 1988 Director & Japanese Instructor of Department of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia
1984 - 1988

Japanese Language teacher of Georgia Japanese Language School, Atlanta, Georgia
1985 - 1987 Japanese Instructor of Department of Romance language, University of Georgia
1983 - 1986 Research Assistant of Department of Language Education, University of Georgia
1983 - 1985 Japanese Instructor of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, University of Georgia

Major Publications

Bicultural ni nareru Hito (On becoming a bicultural person) 1999, Maruzen Library Press.


Amerika ni ikiru Nihon no Kodomo: Daini gengo kakutoku to Jinkaku keisei (Japanese Children in the United States: Second Language Acquisition and Personality Development) 1990, Koubundou Press.