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Yasuko Takata Rallings
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Wake Forest University

EDUCATION
M.A. in Linguistics/TESOL, OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH. August 1996.
B.A. in English, SEINAN GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, Fukuoka, Japan. March 1990.
OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, Shawnee, OK. August 1988 to May 1989.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Real Conversations Book 1: Book Review, Ohio TESOL newsletter (pp. 9, 20). (1995)

The Status Change of Japanese Temporal Adverbial Clauses in SLA, with Yoichi Miyamoto, in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 2. (1996)

Making Requests in Japanese: Power and Social Distance as Constraints on Politeness, in Ohio University Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching. (1996)

Acquisition of Japanese Temporal Clauses, in the Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Second Language Research in Japan. (1997)

What does it Look Like, How does it Feel? In Shameem, N. & Tickoo, M. (Eds.), New Ways in Using Communicative Games in Language Teaching. Alexandria, VA: TESOL. (1999)

Instruction and Acquisition: A Study on Japanese Temporal Clauses, in the Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics AILA '99 Tokyo. (1999)

Developing a Theme-Based Course for Elementary Japanese: From Theory to Practice, in the Proceedings of the 23rd Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at the University of Alabama. (2008)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Before or After When? Acquisition of Japanese Temporal Clauses, presented at the 1997 AAAL Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida. (March 1997)

Instruction and Acquisition: A Study on Japanese Temporal Clauses, presented at the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics AILA '99 Tokyo held at Waseda University. (August 1999)

On-line Kanji Materials, presented at the 16th Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at North Carolina State University. (March 2001)

Incorporating Task-Based Instruction into Structure-Based Curriculum, presented at the 21st Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at Washington and Lee University. (March 2006)

Promoting Interaction in the Classroom: Creating Speaking Tasks that Work, presented at the 40th Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Conference, Raleigh, NC. (September 2006)

Creating Conversation Tasks to Promote Classroom Interaction, presented at the 40th American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. (November 2006)

Teaching Culture: Content-Based Approach for Advanced Japanese, presented at the 22nd Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at University of Memphis. (March 2007)

How to Keep Them Talking: Involving Students in Japanese Conversation, presented with Naho Maruta at the 41st Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Conference, Winston-Salem, NC (October 2007)

Developing a Theme-Based Course for Elementary Japanese: From Theory to Practice, presented at the 23rd Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at University of Alabama. (March 2008)

Using Authentic Materials: Culture, Interaction, and Motivation, presented at the 42nd American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Orlando, FL. (November 2008)

Developing a Content-Based Course for Advanced Japanese, presented with Wakako Sera at the 43rd Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Conference, Raleigh, NC (September 2009)

Project Work: Ensuring Learning and Motivating Students, presented at the 44th American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Boston, MA. (November 2010)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC)
National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT)
Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ)

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
President, Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ), March, 2009-April, 2010
Supervisor, Japan Outreach Initiative at Wake Forest University, August, 2009 - July, 2011

HONORS / GRANTS
Outstanding Japanese Teaching Assistant, OHIO UNIVERSITY, 1996
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Summer Grant for Technology Adoption, Wake Forest University, 2000.
Pro Humanitate Grant for Service Learning, Wake Forest University, 2003.
The Japan Foundation Los Angeles Japanese Language Education Mini Grant, 2008
The Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Grants for Japanese Studies, 2008