Faculty (researcher) information

Chiyo Onzuka Chiyo Onzuka

Chiyo ONZUKA

Faculty: Faculty of Intercultural Japanese Studies Graduate School of Graduate School of Comparative Culture

Research Field: Literature/Humanities/Humanity/Psychology Education and Welfare

Research Topics: Japanese Language Education Phonological awareness and transcription Lexicography Role Words

comment: My specialty is Japanese language education. When humans understand "language," the audio data they hear is simply a physical sound stimulus, and it is the phonological recognition they hear in the brain that gives it meaning. I am researching what the rules are for expressing the recognized phonology as letters, and how Japanese language learners acquire these rules. Recently, I have also been working on developing a Japanese-Japanese dictionary for Japanese language learners.

Main publications and papers: "Phonological Awareness and Writing Mechanisms in Japanese: From the Perspective of Katakana Language Education for Korean Native Speakers" Jinbunsha, 2011
"The Role of Role Language in Korean Textbooks: Virtual Reality for Teaching 'Living Japanese'" Development of Role Language Research, Kuroshio Publishing, 2011
``Role word(역할어)'교육의 효과- 역할어를 활용한 일본어회화 수업 2014
"Comparison of idiomatic expressions for 'face' in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean based on semantic descriptions in dictionaries: Toward the construction of a multilingual idiomatic expression database" (co-author), Japanese Language and Culture Studies, Vol. 4, Vol. 2, 2016
“Cross-cultural and inter-periodical commonality of phonetic symbolism in initials of men and women: A preliminary study” (co-author), Basic Psychology Research, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2019

Awards: Kangwon National University (Korea) 7th Outstanding Teaching Award and Special Award

Main classes taught: Introduction to Japanese Language Education, Japanese Phonetics and Phonology, Special Studies in Japanese Language Education III & IV (Graduate School), Japanese Language Education Around the World, Japanese Language Teaching Practice (Distance Education Course)