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ItemNo Preview AvailableIntercultural communication by non-native and native speakers of Japanese in text-based synchronous CMC.(ascilite, 2008)This study explores speech behaviour when non-native speakers of Japanese (NNSJ) and native speakers of Japanese (NSJ) exchange cultural information, specifically using text- based synchronous computer-mediated communication. This experimental study uses a scaffolding technique in which a Japanese language teacher is less present and NNSJ are left to communicate with NSJ within a restricted timeframe. This study demands their intercultural engagement, thus suggesting an outcome of intercultural relationship building. While the study examined participants’ speech behaviours – specifically, the key speech act of requesting – observed to be important for realising smooth intercultural relationships, it also highlighted attributes of available technologies useful in facilitating intercultural engagement. Since people from different cultural backgrounds have different perceptions of politeness reflected in their behaviour and language use, understanding how request strategies are used by NSJ could give NNSJ intercultural insights and skills in Japanese language and socio-cultural behaviour. CMC has been utilised in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), with students able to learn languages through a real-world context and access native speakers of the target language, beyond the classroom. CMC has been found to be an effective adopted ‘third place’ (Kramsch 1993) located at the intersection of the cultures the learner grew up with, and the cultures to which they are introduced. In the case of language use, technology allows NNSJ to record their conversations, and reflect on the language being used, thus gaining intercultural insights and skills; these could be transferable to other communication modes, whether computer-driven technology or face-to-face. It is intended that the findings of this study might shed light on the innovative enhancement of non-native Japanese speakers’ intercultural and socio-cultural competence through the use of text-based CMC.
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ItemNo Preview Available言語的カオスのクィア・リーディング: テキスト・イメージ・デザイヤー【招待講演】Queer Reading Linguistic Chaos: Text/Image/Desire (Invited Lecture)(International Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Ritsumeikan University, 2016-12-01)
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ItemBali Mula: An Introduction to Indigenous Highland Balinese History, Ritual and Social Organisation(National Museum of Prehistory, 2018)More than fifty villages in the central highlands and along the northern coast of the island of Bali, Indonesia, share a common indigenous culture distinct from that of mainstream Balinese society. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 1993-94, and then regularly for shorter periods every year until now, this article looks at the ethnohistory of this Austronesian-speaking people, known as the Bali Mula or Bali Aga (meaning ‘original’ or ‘mountain Balinese’ respectively). The focus will be the ritual order of their regional domains and characteristic local village councils. Ritual relationships define these two major institutions of Bali Mula society according to a principle of seniority or, more precisely, precedence (‘proximity to origins’). Bali Mula social organisation is rather similar to that of Taiwanese indigenous people, shedding light on the historical process of cultural dispersion of the Austronesian peoples.
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ItemUnity in Diversity: Why we need to do justice to local characteristics and identities while also cultivating a sense of global citizenship(Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018)We have been witnessing a massive nationalist reaction to globalisation in recent years, the reasons for which can be difficult to untangle. If intellectuals hastily come to the defence of the globalist position and demonise this opposite point of view, we only add to a general climate of hostility that is poisoning the prospects for rational public debate in many countries. Rather, our duty is to reveal what is really at stake in this struggle, to identify the forces that are at play, and to make proposals for how to address the underlying problems associated with ‘real-existing globalisation.’ In short, we need to present the public with alternatives superior to those offered by a legion of democracy-, journalism- and science-bashing right-wing demagogues.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Political Economy of Open Government(Faculty of Social and Political Science, Airlangga University, 2017)
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ItemUsing video sharing for learning Japanese based on Community of Inquiry(National University of, 2014)This paper reports on a collaborative project using online blended learning based on Community of Inquiry. Undergraduate students in Australia created videos, on contemporary issues in Japan, and uploaded them on YouTube, where they were commented on by postgraduate trainee teachers in Japan. The results of a data analysis using Community of Inquiry framework showed that, on one hand, the Melbourne students were mostly positive about opportunities to interact with students in Japan. On the other hand, the Kobe students, although recognizing the benefits of blended learning, were critical of the project in terms of issues related to their own feedback and over the project management. Thus, the CoI analysis, when it was conducted in separate settings, revealed that the two groups of participants in the same project perceived it very differently, and allowed us to see the issues across the project as a whole. We suggest that the CoI framework needs to be modified, if it is used to evaluate collaborative blended learning that involves more than one learning environment.
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ItemFrom Borneo to Bantu: how the Malagasy third person genitive pronoun *-ni may have become a locative suffix in Swahili(Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2015)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableGlobal Talent on the Move: Multiple Migrations of Self-Initiated Expatriates in Asia(The Australian Sociological Association, 2015-11-23)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTeaching language as a culture: using the Japanese writing system as a target of cultural research(LCNAU, 2014)Within the context of a Language Curriculum Reform at the University of Melbourne, an attempt was made to create a curriculum that allows students at lower-intermediate level to discover culture embedded in the use of Japanese language, with special focus on the Japanese writing system. Studying Japanese challenges non-native students in many ways; coping with the increasing number of kanji is one of them and needs to be addressed appropriately, The resulting curriculum systematically focuses directly and indirectly on various aspects of the Japanese writing system as a target of learning, in addition to other learning. Students not only develop a better understanding of Japanese language and the cultural practice of writing, but they also gain strategies for learning kanji, as well as developing their literacy skills to enable them to conduct research in and on Japanese.