{"id":5811,"date":"2019-07-05T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2019-07-05T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:06:18","slug":"uri-welcomes-first-professor-of-japanese-dr-tatsushi-fukunaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/uri-welcomes-first-professor-of-japanese-dr-tatsushi-fukunaga\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Welcomes First Professor of Japanese, Dr. Tatsushi Fukunaga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name: Dr. Tatsushi Fukunaga<\/strong>
\nURI Position: Assistant Professor of Japanese
\n<\/span>Email: fukunaga@uri.edu
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The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome several new professors beginning in the fall 2019 semester. Assistant Professor Tatsushi Fukunaga, Ph.D., has the distinction of being URI\u2019s first ever professor of Japanese. Dr. Fukunaga brings years of international teaching experience and distinction to his new appointment. He has previously held positions at The Japan Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand; Monash University in Victoria, Australia; The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi, Vietnam; Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan; Dong Du Japanese Language School in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. <\/p>\n

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Dr. Fukunaga graduated with a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Japanese in May 2019 from Purdue University. His research addresses the ways in which Japanese is taught as a foreign language, including task-based approaches to language teaching and learning and second-language writing. \u201cCurrently, I am particularly interested in the effects of task repetition on writing and speaking skills,\u201d Fukunaga says. \u201cMy dissertation explores how [Japanese as a foreign language] learners develop their linguistic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and fluency in written language performance over one academic year.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the upcoming academic year, he will be teaching several Japanese and Japanese-related courses. Of his leadership in the classroom, Fukunaga states: \u201cI always strive to provide students with communicative tasks\u2026so that learners diligently study, reflect on what they have studied, and have a chance to apply the explicit and implicit knowledge to real language-use situations.\u201d Fukunaga is looking forward to bringing his student-centered teaching style to URI\u2019s motivated community of language learners. \u201cIf the students really want to improve their Japanese ability,\u201d he says, \u201cthey need to become aware of their own communicative needs and interests in Japanese language and culture, and they need to know the ways they can achieve their own goals and overcome their challenges autonomously.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Written by Aria Mia Loberti, Communication Studies, Political Science, and Philosophy triple major<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Tatsushi Fukunaga joins us from Purdue University. He has the distinction of being URI\u2019s first ever professor of Japanese, and he brings years of international teaching experience and distinction to his new appointment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[222,85,225],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-japanese","tag-languages","tag-new-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}