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Research Interests

1. Language teacher identities inside and outside the classroom


2. Positioning analysis and narrative analysis


3. Japanese sociolinguistics and pragmatics. (e.g., Politeness and Face Theories)

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Grants and Awards

2022

Graduate Fellowship Award, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona

2021

NFMLTA/NCOLCTL Graduate Student Research Support Grant

National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages


College of Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant

University of Arizona


GPSC Travel Grant

Graduate & Professional Student Council, University of Arizona


SILLC Travel Funding

School of International Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Arizona


Graduate Fellowship Award

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona

2020

GPSC Research and Project Grant
Graduate & Professional Student Council, University of Arizona

2018

SILLC Travel Funding

School of International Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Arizona 

2017

International Conference Funding
Kyushu University, Japan

2011

Second Prize, Japanese Calligraphy Competition

Zhejiang University, China

Publication

Articles

 

Chen J. (2023, Forthcoming). “M-san Again?”: Identity-in-Practice of a Japanese Graduate Teaching Assistant. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

 

Chen, J. (2022). Understanding Language Teacher Identities in L2 Teaching. Explorations in Teacher Development. 28(3), 52-61.

 

Chen J. (2022). Scaffolding in an Elementary-level Japanese Language Classroom: Question-Answer Interactions. Journal of Language and Culture Education, 10(1), 16-24.

 

Chen, J. (2021). A Novice Japanese Teacher’s Identity Construction in Online Teaching under COVID-19: Beliefs and Perceptions. Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. 6(1), 5-11.

Book Reviews

 

Chen, J. (2021). Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid, & Federica Diémoz (eds.), Visualizing digital discourse: Interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 270. Hb. €100. Language in Society, 50(3), 481-482.

Conference Presentation

Chen, J. (2023). Professional Identities of Novice Japanese Language Teachers: A Case Study on Japanese Graduate Teaching Assistants, 26th Annual Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Northbrook, Illinois

 

Chen, J. (2021). A Case Study on a Novice Japanese Teacher's Enacted Identities through a Lens of Storytelling in Online Weekly Meetings, 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Online

 

Chen, J. (2018). A Case Study Testing the Effects of Teaching Japanese No Sound Mimetics through Comic Pictures, 12th International Symposium for Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, Hong Kong, China

 

Chen, J. (2016). Chinese and Japanese Cultural Differences in the Concepts of “Face”: Focusing on Compliments, 11th International Symposium for Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, Hong Kong, China

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