KONDOH, Aya

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  • Position:
    Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Programs on Japanese Language and Culture
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics), Ochanomizu University
  • Specialty:
    Applied Linguistics, Japanese Language Education, Business Communication
• Current Research Interests :
  Collaborative Learning, Business Communication in Asia, Teacher Development & Methodology
• Professional Career:
  

  1992	Graduate Diploma in Education(Language Teaching, especially Japanese), University of Technology, Sydney
  1992-2004	Association of Japanese-Language Teaching
  1994-1995	Triebel & Rix Seminar (Germany)
  1998	M.A., Ochanomizu University, 1998.
  2000-2004	Visiting Lecturer of Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  2000-2004	Visiting Lecturer of International Student Exchange Center, Tokyo Gagugei University
  2002	Ph.D., Ochanomizu University
  2003-2004	Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities of Japan Women's University
  2004	Associate Professor, GRIPS

• Selected publications:
  “Study of Business Communication for Japanese Language Education.” The State of the Art in Second Language Acquisition and Instruction Research -2004 Version-. Japanese Language Education. ( in Japanese) Tokyo: The Society for Research on Japanese Language and Culture, 202-222, 2004
  
  “Strategies that Japanese businessmen use in business negotiations with Koreans.” Japanese Language Education in Time for Coexistence, (Kyoosei Jidai o Ikiru Nihongo Kyooiku). (in Japanese) Tokyo: Bonjin-sha, 377-398, 2005
  
  “Intercultural Communication in Business: Are Meetings in Japanese inefficient?” Cross-Culture and Communication  (Ibunka to Communication). (in Japanese)  Tokyo: Hitsuzi-Shoboo, 40-61, 2005
  
  The Analysis of Problems among Japanese and Foreign Business-people. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Hitsuzi-Shoboo, 2007
  
  “Meeting Management under the Win-Win Relationship.” Journal of International Behavioral Studies.
  Vol.3., (in Japanese) The Association of International Behavioral Studies, 49-59, 2008
  
  “Survey on Japanese and Chinese Attitudes toward Business Communication and Practices in China” Japanese Language Education. Vol. 37, (in Japanese) The Society for Research on Japanese Language  and Culture, 55-58, 2009 (with Son Aii etc.)
  
  “Conflicts toward Business Communication between Indian and Japanese People in India-for Cooperative Relations-” Japanese Language Education. Vol.37., (in Japanese) The Society for Research on Japanese Language and Culture, 59-62, 2009 (with Y. Mugdha and H. Kim)
  
  “Potential of Using ‘Case-Activities’ in Japanese- forward making Japanese Resources on Business Conflict-.”  (in Japanese) Journal of Japanese Language and Culture, Vol.6., Japan Foundation and National Graduate Institute For Policy Studies , 15-32, 2010, (with H. Kim)
  
  “Personal Attitude of an Administrator of the Brazilian School on Education of Brazilian Children.” Intercultural Communication between Brazilian Pupils and Japanese Teachers. ( in Japanese) Tokyo: Kazama-Shoboo, 171-186, 2011, (with E. Ogasa)
  
  
• Social contributions:
  Member of Teacher Development Committee of The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
  Member of Research and Study Committee of  The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
  Member of Language Committee of The Association of International Behavioral Studies
• Other notable achievements:
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Grant number: 12703, 2008-2011
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Grant number: 23520620, 2011-2014
• e-mail: akondoh