Lecturer
Phone: (07) 3138 4398
Fax: (07) 3138 4012
Email: y.watanabe@qut.edu.au
Location: Z Block, Level 11 Gardens Point
Qualifications
BA Bond, PGDipEd Qld, MEd USQ
Career Summary
Yasu is a Lecturer in Japanese language. His training includes linguistics, applied linguistics, CALL, education, cross-cultural communication and business communication.
Yasu is also a practitioner of Iaido, the Japanese swordsmanship, and works closely with community groups to promote Japanese culture.
Reseach Interests
- Japanese language and culture
- applied linguistics, discourse analysis
- politeness in Japanese communication
- Japanese language pedagogy at advanced level
- CALL (computer-assisted language learning).