NEO-IMMERSION AND THE "COMFORTABLE SPEAKER (POST NATIVE SPEAKER)": POST UNIT THINKING IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Author of the following books:
The Native Speaker Concept: Ethnographic Investigations of
"Native Speaker Effects" (Mouton de Gruyter); Heritage, Nationhood, and Language: Cases of Migrants with Japanese Connections (Routledge); Constructing the Heritage Language Learner: Knowledge, Power, and New Subjectivities (Mouton de Gruyter); Rethinking Language and Culture in Japanese Education (Multilingual M); The Global Education Effect and Japan:
Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge);
Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus: Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing (Berghan); The Politics of "Incompetence":
Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance (Lexington); Counter Standardization: Exploring Liberatory Language Practices around "Japanese" (Mouton de Gruyter).

Supported by the Trinity Language Council the Office of the Provost Racial Inequality Grant: CommunityPartnerships and Pedagogies of Racial Justice
Working Group