CONGRATULATIONS!!! (belatedly) to Professor Emeritus Agnes M. Niyekawa. The Government of Japan awarded her the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette, in recognition of her contribution toward introducing and furthering the understanding of Japanese culture and language. The Japanese Consulate held an official ceremony on November 27, 1998 to present her with the award. Dean Cornelia Moore joined the Department in congratulating Professor Niyekawa and thanking her for her years of dedicated service to the University during an informal ceremony held before our end-of-the-semester party in December 1998.

CONGRATULATIONS to Kimi Kondo, Instructor in Japanese! Kimi successfully defended her dissertation on Japanese Language Learning, Academic Achievement and Identity: Voices of new second generation Japanese-American university students in Hawaii, and received her Ed.D. in Educational Foundations in 1998.

SAYONARA to three of our Japanese language instructors. Keiko Hirata, currently on LWOP from the University and residing in Egypt where her husband Mark Warschauer is employed, has decided to resign from her position with us. Dianne Lim has accepted a teaching position at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, joining her former fellow graduate students Pamela Ikegami, and Michael and Mari Shawback. Keiko Yamamoto retired effective the end of Fall 1998, after more than 30 years of teaching at the University of Hawaii.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Joel R. Cohn -- Translation of a kokkeibon (comic narrative) by Shikitei Sanba (1776-1822) for an anthology of Edo-period literature to be published by the UH Press.

Haruko M. Cook -- Continuing language socialization research.

Kyoko Hijirida -- (1) Continuing literature/resource materials search on standard-based foreign language teaching as a member of a project of the National Working Group for the National Standards for Japanese Language Learning, funded by the U.S.-Japan Foundation. (2) Producing a video project entitled Japanese National Standards for Pre-service Teacher Education, as part of CTAPS projects funded by the U.S.-Japan Foundation. This is a collaborative production of the EAL in Cultural Context, to be contributed to the Korean Language in Culture and Society project, ed. by Ho-min Sohn.

Kimi Kondo -- (1) Japanese Language Needs Analysis 1998-1999, a co-authored book with Tomoko Iwai, Dianne Lim, Grace Ray, Hisaaki Shimizu, and J.D. Brown, to be published by the SLTCC/UHM. (2) Form-focused instruction meaning-based teaching: Effects of Input vs. Output practice, a project funded by a Japanese Studies Endowment grant and for which she received the 1999-2000 LLL Instructor Award for Innovative Teaching. (3) Conducting a needs analysis for an upper-level experimental Japanese language course, JPN 397 Third-Level Japanese for Communication: Project work, which she developed and which has been approved for Fall 1999.

Chin-tang Lo -- Continuing to write a book entitled The History of Chinese Folk Literature.

David R. McCraw -- (1) Cultural China, Western chess, and Gentle Ben; (2) Tang poetry sequences.

Hiroyuki Nagahara -- Translating into Japanese Gender and Democracy in Computer-mediated Communication by Susan Herring, in Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd ed.), ed. by Rob King (New York: Academic Press, 1996), pp. 476-489.

Nobuko M. Ochner -- (1) Materials development for a graduate course in Japanese studies bibliography and research methods, (2) role of culture in literary interpretation.

Hisaaki Shimizu -- (1) Developing performance-based testing materials as part of the PBT subcommittee. (2) Japanese Language Needs Analysis 1998-1999, a co-authored book with Tomoko Iwai, Dianne Lim, Grace Ray, Kimi Kondo, and J.D. Brown, to be published by the SLTCC/UHM.

Ho-min Sohn -- (1) Completed the final camera-ready version of The Korean Language, to be published by Cambridge University Press. (2) Editing manuscripts for two monographs: Korea: its Tradition, Culture, and Society, and Korean Language in Culture and Society. (3) Writing chapters for above two monographs: Chapter 1: Korean language, culture and society: an overview, and Chapter 35: Korean in contact with Chinese for Korean Language in Culture and Society, and Chapter 2: Salient Features of the Korean Language for Korea: its Tradition, Culture, and Society.

Mildred M. Tahara -- Classical poetry, 10th-13th century; currently focusing on the Senzaish?(1188).

Valdo H. Viglielmo -- Continuing work on modern Japanese literature and philosophy, especially Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime.

Alexander V. Vovin -- (1) A reference grammar of Old Japanese. (2) Etymological dictionary of early Japanese (together with Leon Serafim). (3) Editor-in-Chief of The Manchu-Tungusic Languages, to be published by Curzon Press. (4) Did the Xiong-nu speak a Yeniseian language?, submitted to Central Asiatic Journal. (5) Ongoing work on the Korean dialects in China.

Tao-chung Ted Yao -- Working on a paper entitled Immortality according to the Quanzhen Sect of Daoism.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS, ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Robert L. Cheng -- Taiwanese and Mandarin Structures and Their Development Trends in Taiwan. Taipei: Yuan-liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 1997. Four volumes, with introductions in Mandarin and Taiwanese + 1903 pp. Book I: Taiwanese Phonology and Morphology. 72 + 395 pp. Book II: Contacts between Taiwanese and Mandarin and Restructuring of their Synonyms. 72 + 395 pp. Book III: Temporal and Spatial Relations, Questions and Negatives in Taiwanese and Mandarin. 72 + 425 pp. Book IV: Pro-forms, Focus and Scope in Taiwanese and Mandarin. 72 + 539 pp. Tongyiyu Xianxiang zai Tai-Hua Duiyi Ciku-li de Chuli Wenti: Taiojian he Cucheng Jiegou [Condition and Causation--Problems in Treating Synonyms in Taiwanese-Mandarin Bilingual Data Base], Selected Papers from the Second International Symposium on Language in Taiwan, ed. by Shuanfan Huang (Taipei: Crane, 1998), pp. 529-564. Taiwanhua Ciku-li Daimingci de Jufa, Cifa, Yuyong, Yuyin Xinxi [Synonymity in Taiwanese Pronouns], Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series No. 9 (1999).

Hsin-I Hsieh -- Thematic control and cross-dialectal comparison, Selected Papers from the Second International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan, ed. by Shuanfan Huang (Taipei: Crane, 1998), pp. 265-286. Sentential complexity and event connectivity, Studia linguistica serica (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Chinese Linguistics), ed. by Benjamin K. T’sou (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 1998), pp. 451-464.

Robert N. Huey -- Kyogoku Tamekane, in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 203: Medieval Japanese Writers (Washington, D.C.: Burccoli Clark Layman, 1999), pp. 165-176. Book review, Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry, by Edward Kamens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), in Journal of Japanese Studies (Summer 1999).

Kazue Kanno -- The Stability of UG Principles in Second Language Acquisition: Evidence from Japanese in Linguistics 36.6 (1998), 1125-1146.Responsiveness to experience in second language acquisition in Journal of Japanese Linguistics and Education (1998), pp. 87-98.

Kimi Kondo -- Social-psychological factors affecting language maintenance: Interviews with Shin Nisei university students in Linguistics & Education, 9.4 (1999), 369-408.

Chin-tang Lo -- A Chinese Point of View on the Beijing Opera, in Anthology of Chinese Writers in Hawaii, 1998-1999 (Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese Writers Association, 1998), pp. 5-26.The Relationship Between Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Chinese Fiction, in Anthology of Chinese Writers in Hawaii, 1998-1999 (Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese Writers Association, 1998), pp. 27-66.

Katsue A. Reynolds -- Intaanetto Gengo to sei [Internet language and gender], in Rim (Pacific Rim Women’s Studies Association Journal), 1.7 (1993), 21-25.Nihongo to Onna Kotoba [Japanese and women's language], in Fujin Tsžshin, No. 479 (November 1998), pp. 9-12.

Misako Steverson -- Adventures in Japanese I, Workbook, co-authored with Hiromi Peterson. Boston, M.A.: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998, 174 pp. Mother’s Role in Japanese Dinnertime Conversation, in The Life of Language, the Language of Life: Selected Papers from the First College Wide Conference for Students in the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures, eds. Marilyn Plumlee and Dina R. Yoshimi (Honolulu: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii, 1998), pp. 12-21.

Arthur H. Thornhill -- Komparu Zenchiku, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 203: Medieval Japanese Writers (Washington, D.C.: Burccoli Clark Layman, 1999), pp. 155-164.

Alexander V. Vovin -- Nostratic and Altaic in Nostratic: Sifting the evidence, ed. by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998), pp. 257-270.Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture in Archaeology and Language II. Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, eds. by Roger Blench and Matthew Sprigs (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 366-378.

Tao-chung (Ted) Yao -- CATRC (Computer-Adaptive Test for Reading Chinese), with assistance from Cynthia Ning. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, NFLRC, 1999. [A prototype computer-adaptive test using HyperCard on Macintosh computers. Download from: http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/tedyao/catrc/]

Dina R. Yoshimi -- Creating a voice of student authority in the context of Japanese graduate education, in Language, Linguistics and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Carol M. Eastman, eds. by J. H. O'Mealy and L. E. Lyons (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998), pp. 59-75. The Life of Language, the Language of Life: Selected Proceedings from the First College-wide Conference for Graduate Students in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature. Co-edited with Marilyn Plumlee. Honolulu: University of Hawaii-Manoa, National Foreign Language Resource Center, 1998, 199 pp.The language of interdependence in Japanese vertical relationships in PRAGMATICS in 1998: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 2, ed. by Jef Verschueren (Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association), (forthcoming 1999).L1 language socialization as a variable in the linguistic expression of affect by L2 learners of Japanese in Journal of Pragmatics (special issue on Language Socialization and the Acquisition of Japanese), (forthcoming 1999).

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES

David E. Ashworth -- Inter-Institutional Collaboration on Cyberspace: A Model for Language Learning and Teaching a joint paper presented at the annual conference of the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 1998. [Travel funded by a Japanese Studies Endowment award]

Haruko M. Cook -- Why can’t learners of Japanese as a foreign language distinguish polite from impolite speech styles?, at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, Connecticut, March 6-9, 1999. [Travel funded by a UH Research Council award]

Tomoko Iwai -- Natural Conversation as a Model for Language Instruction at the 19th annual Second Language Research Forum, University of Hawaii, October 16, 1998.

Kazue Kanno -- Gapping Direction in the Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, Connecticut, March 6-9, 1999. [Travel funded by a UH Research Council award]

Yung-Hee Kim -- Dialectics of Life: Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993) and Her Literary World, at Sparks of Creativity: Women in the Korean Humanities, the 1998 Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 24-25, 1998.

Kimi Kondo -- Motivational issues of the university Japanese language programs: The case of American-born students from the post-war Japanese immigrant families, at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ), in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, MA, March 11, 1999. [Travel funded by a UH Research Council award.]

Mildred M. Tahara -- Waka Poems of the Senzaish( (1188), Compiled by Fujiwara Shunzei (1114-1204), at the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), Guadalajara, Mexico, December 3-5, 1998. [Travel funded by a UH Japan Studies Endowmen award]

Yuan Tian -- A Reliability Analysis of a Second Year Chinese Midterm at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 1998.

Tao-chung Ted Yao -- Website: Ways to Enhance a Chinese Course, at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 1998.

Dina R. Yoshimi -- Explicit instruction of extended tellings in the Japanese as a Foreign Language Classroom, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, CT, March 6-9, 1999.

Suzanne Zeng -- Multiple Uses of the Web in Teaching Business Chinese, at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 1998.Task-based Translator Training, Quality Assessment, and the WWW, at the Fourth Language International Conference for Translation and Interpretation Studies, Shanghai, China, December 2-6, 1998.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Joel R. Cohn chaired a panel at the Modern Language Association Conference and participated in a meeting of the Delegate Assembly, San Francisco, December 27-29, 1998.

Haruko M. Cook gave a talk on Marking stances in a formal classroom interaction in a Japanese elementary school at the Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawaii, February 9, 1999.

Kyoko Hijirida has been devoting much of her time to the ongoing National Standards Working Group to which she was selected by the ATJ in June 1998. She traveled to the University of Colorado in late October for a Group meeting to search standard-related literature resources and to prepare recommendations for eventual publication, and to develop professional teacher standards and teacher training programs. On December 28, 1998, she conducted the Japanese National Standards Pre-view Session at a meeting of the Hawaii Association of Teachers of Japanese (HATJ) at Kapiolani Community College. This session was planned by CTAPS of the East West Center under a project entitled Hawaii Project on Standards for Japanese Language Learning of which she is an Advisory Committee member. She attended a meeting of the Advisory Committee as a representive of higher education to evaluate 1999 language-related applications for grant programs, held at the Japan Foundation and Language Center in Los Angeles on January 19-20, 1999. A month later, February 12-14, she returned to Los Angeles as a member of the National Working Group to participate in the finalizing of the work on resource materials for the ATJ website publication. Most recently, she served as chair of the 1999 ATJ Annual Thursday Seminar program and International Keynote Panel organizers. She also served as chair of a session entitled Curriculum and Pedagogy held in conjunction with the AAS meeting held in Boston on March 11-14, 1999. In between all this, she managed to present two invited papers, Recent developments for the Japanese heritage language schools and The Japanese National Standards at the annual in-service teacher development program of the Hawaii Kyoikukai held at the Honolulu Country Club, February 15, 1999, and completed an article entitled Hawaii Daigaku [University of Hawaii] in its historical relation to Yukishi Fukuzawa, for Mita Hyoron (Tokyo: Keio University, March 1999), pp. 68-71.

Hsin-I Hsieh served as an outside reviewer for a University of Kansas application for promotion to associate professor. He is presently reviewing a grant proposal on a topic in cognitive grammar submitted to the Research Grants Council in Hong Kong.

Tomoko Iwai is continuing her work as a member of the PBT subcommittee.

Yung-Hee Kim presented a paper on Colonialism and the Modern Woman Question in Korea, at the Korean Studies Faculty Seminar, Center for Korean Studies, UHM, November 3, 1998. She is currently a member of an organizing committee for an international conference on Korean studies on Critical Issues in Korean Studies in the Millennium, to be held on February 18-22, 2000, in Honolulu, and co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies, UHM, the Osaka University of Economics and Law, the International Society for Korean Studies, and Beijing University.

Kimi Kondo presented a paper on Effects of structured input vs. Output practice in second language acquisition, at the Hawaii Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Hawaii, January 30, 1999.

Ying-che Li attended the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference and served as both chair and discussant on the panel on CHISELing into the 21st century in Taiwan in Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 1998. He later attended an annual meeting of the Project on Chinese Dialects in Southeast Asia, in Singapore, January 8-10, 1999.

Chin-tang Lo, serving as the Outside Member of Mr. Wonsuk Chang's Ph.D. committee, participated in Mr. Chang's defense of his dissertation on Time and Creativity in the YiJing on February 12, 1999.

Jung Ying Lu-Chen presented her report on Task-Based Language Teaching and the WWW a project to convert a traditional language class to a more task-based language class, on Tuesday, March 9, as part of the Spring 1999 SLTCC Professional Development Series.

Hiroyuki Nagahara participated in the selection of the 1999-2000 CJS scholarships/fellowships recipients.

Nobuko M. Ochner served on the Steering Committee of the Third Annual LLL Graduate Student Conference and was a moderator for a Japanese literature panel during the conference, which was held on March 13, 1999. She is currently serving on a student exchange program screening committee for CJS. She also assisted with the processing of Japanese books for Hamilton Library's Asian Collection. She continues as a member of an M.A. Asian Studies thesis committee and as the Outside Member for a Ph.D. Linguistics committee.

Katsue A. Reynolds served as a reader at the public reading of A Lifetime of Labor: An Autobiography of Alice H. Cook, sponsored by the Industrial Relations Center, Center for Biographical Research, UH Commission on Diversity, December 17, 1998.

Hisaaki Shimizu continues to provide translation services at the Honolulu Marathon Clinic for Japanese Runners, held annually in December.

Ho-min Sohn traveled to Los Angeles to chair a meeting of the National Foreign Language Center editorial board for Korean language networking, held at the Hyatt Hotel in West Hollywood, February 13-15, 1999. Back home, Professor Sohn presented a keynote speech entitled Korean language education in the twenty-first century at the Korean Language Workshop for Korean Community Schools in Hawaii, held at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, on March 5-6, 1999. He later flew to Texas where he was invited to present a paper on Politeness in the Korean Language at the University of Texas, Austin, March 26, 1999.

Mildred M. Tahara participated in the Smithsonian/Oxford Seminar (English Portraiture, 1500-1700), at Trinity College, Oxford University, England, from August 29-September 12, 1998. She served in the LLL Excellence in Teaching Committee in March 1998. She continues her service as Board Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association (CASAA). In that capacity, she helped with the David Cooper Breakfast and the UHAA 1998 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner, both on May 26, 1998. She also provided assistance with the opening reception for Witness--Our Brothers' Keeper a photographic exhibit at the UH Art Building Commons Gallery, July 6, 1998, which was sponsored by the UH Arts and Sciences Deans and the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles.

Yumiko Tateyama presented a paper on Use of verbal reports in teaching pragmatics at the Hawaii Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Hawaii, January 30, 1999.

Valdo H. Viglielmo reviewed a book on Japanese aesthetics for the UH Press, and evaluated an article on haiku for Philosophy East and West. He gave a lecture on haiku at Windward Community College, February 3, 1999. He hosted a five-member delegation of Nagasaki hibakusha for January 1999 meetings held in conjunction with Martin Luther King holiday celebrations, and served as Japanese-English/English-Japanese translator.

Alexander V. Vovin continues as a member of various committees: (1) CJS Executive Committee, (2) CKS Research committee, (3) editorial board of the Diachronica, an international journal for historical linguistics. In February 1999 he added yet another "hat": member of the editorial board of the Migracijske Theme [Peoples and migrations] Zagreb, Croatia.

C. K. Patrick Woo spent the first part of this semester from January 13-March 10, 1999, at the Japanese Language Institute in Urawa, Japan, participating in a teacher-training program for foreign teachers of Japanese, sponsored by the Japan Foundation.

Tao-chung Ted Yao presented several talks in November: The Organizational Principles of Integrated Chinese at the Chicago Chinese Schools 1998 Teacher's Training Workshop, Chicago; How to teach the four language skills in a Chinese class, at Tzu-chi Chinese School, Honolulu; Testing Chinese in a Performance-based Curriculum at the University of Colorado. Most recently he gave a talk on An Introduction to SATII-Chinese at a meeting of the Southern California Chinese Schools Association, in February 1999. Adding to his busy schedule, he continues to serve the profession in various capacities: (1) Chair, SATII-Chinese Committee, College Board, (2) Editor, CLTA Newsletter, (3) President, CL Japanese pedagogy faculty and graduate students currently enrolled in JPN 650P (Topics in Japanese Linguistics: Pedagogy -- National Standards for Japanese Language Learning).

Hsin-I Hsieh -- How images combine with images, propositions combine with propositions, and images combine with propositions within a semantic-structure representation -- a question of connectivity in a CCG (Compositional Cognitive Grammar).

Robert N. Huey -- Continuing with Shinkokin era, the early 13th Century Japanese poetry.

Tomoko Iwai -- (1) Acquisition of Japanese discourse marker -n desu by JFL learners; (2) directives in natural conversation. (3) Japanese Language Needs Analysis 1998-1999, a co-authored book with Kimi Kondo, Dianne Lim, Grace Ray, Hisaaki Shimizu, and J.D. Brown, to be published by the SLTCC/UHM

Kazue Kanno -- Continuing sentence processing by second language learners.

Yung-Hee Kim -- (1) Continuing a critical biography of Korean feminist writer, Kim Won-ju (1896-1971). (2) Korean Narrative Genre hinese Language Education Association of Hawaii (CLEAH).

Dina R. Yoshimi presented a paper on Explicit Instruction and JFL Learners Use of Interactional Markers, with Reiko Nishikawa, at the Eighteenth Second Language Research Forum, Honolulu, October 16, 1998. She is currently working with Dave Ashworth and Kyoko Hijirida on a project to develop a pre-service training video for Japanese instructors which will provide an introduction to the recently-created National Standards for Japanese language instruction. The project is part of a grant for developing model projects for the implementation of the national standards received by CTAPS from ATJ.

ONGOING DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Our Department's EALL EAST ASIA BROWNBAG SEMINAR, organized by Hiroyuki Nagahara, resumed earlier this semester.

Kyoto Hijirida, Sati Benes, Kazutoh Ishida, Momoyo Shimazu, Yuko Yamamoto, Taking the 5C Goals of the National Standards to the Japanese Classroom, February 4, 1999

Dave Ashworth, Claire Ikumi Hitosugi, and Tomoko Iwai, The Community Standards: Their Implementation in Cyberspace, February 11, 1999

The KOREO-JAPONIC CIRCLE, established in Spring 1996 by Leon Serafim and Alexander Vovin, will be resuming its evening meetings and late-night pot-luck gatherings in late April.

OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Recipients of the 1999 Korea Foundation Fellowships for Korean Studies to conduct research in Korea: Jane Y. Kim and Michael J. Pettid (both Ph.D. students in Korean Literature).

Recipient of Graduate Division Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 1998-99: Yumiko Ohara (Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Language).

Publication: Rokuo Tanaka, Ph.D. student in Japanese Literature, in Journal of Selected Papers in Asian Studies, 1.1 (Fall 1998).