Concept-based Language Instruction

Kyoko Masuda is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research areas include Japanese discourse studies, applied cognitive linguistics, sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and role language/mimetic words used in Manga.Amy Snyder Ohta is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research uses sociocultural theory to consider the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, interlanguage pragmatics, classroom research, interview research, and autoethnography.Rie Tsujihara is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington, lecturer of Japanese at the University of Washington, and lecturer of Japanese at Cascadia College. Her research focuses on the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, both pragmatics and grammar, with a special interest in sociocultural theory.

• ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPart I: Concept‑based language instruction: A radical blending of theory and practice1. Concept-based language instruction: combining sociocultural theory and usage-based linguistics to transform language pedagogy 2. Promoting internalization in concept-based language instruction Part II: Using concept‑based language instruction to teach Japanese pragmatics3. Teaching pragmatics with concept-based language instruction 4. Japanese style-shifting through concepts5. Teaching subjective construal and interactional particles as invaluable linguistic resources in Japanese conversation6. Teaching thanking in Japanese: a conceptual approach to speech actsPart III: Using concept‑based language instruction to teach Japanese grammar7. Teaching motion verbs: perspective as foundational to Japanese grammar8. Japanese benefactives and the speaker’s perspective9. Teaching Japanese tense and aspect conceptually10. Teaching the Japanese causative by incorporating insights from corpus studies11. The passive and the speaker’s perspective in Japanese: focusing on “undergoing”12. Moving forward with concept-based language instructionIndex