Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison 2001
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Lecturer in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2017
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Japan (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Mori, Mari, Naoko Kurokawa, and Gordon Worley. “Speculation on the naming of Moyamoya disease.” J Neuroradiol 45, no. 4 (July 2018): 261–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurad.2018.03.004.
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    • Kurokawa, N., F. Shinozaki, A. Ueda, and H. Yoshida. “Using SNS to Enhance Cross-Cultural Communication: Perspectives from EFL Teacher-Training & JFL Instruction.” Proceedings of the Ciec Pc Conference 2013, July 2013.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Promoting Cultural Literacy & Advanced Level Language Proficiency through the Internet-mediated Communication between American & Japanese Students.” Proceeding of 2012 Pc Conference, Ciec, 2012.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Acquisition of the Explanatory modal n(no)da through the corpus-driven language pedagogy.” Proceedings of the Practice Study Forum for Japanese Education, the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Nihongo Kyoiku Gakkai), July 2011.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation: Analysis of JFL Learners’ Motives and the Potential of Digital Comic Making.” Proceedings of the Practical Study Forum for Japanese Education, the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, 2009.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Examining the Effect of Peer Feedback and Internet-Mediated Communication in JFL writing.” Proceedings of the International Conference of the Japanese Language & Literature Association of Taiwan, 2009.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Pedagogical Use of the Fixed-form Verses in the JFL Instruction.” Proceedings of the 23rd Seatj Conference, 2008.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Repetition in Japanese Conversational Discourse.” Icu Studies in Japanese Language Education 3 (2007).
    • Kurokawa, N. “Learning beyond the Classrooms with iPods.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Assisted Systems for Teaching & Learning Japanese, 2007.
    • K Aoki, M Isoyama, and N. Kurokawa. “Looking at Commercials: Windows into Culture and Language.” Proceedings of the 18th Catj Annual Conference, 2006.
    • Kurokawa, N. “Classroom Activities for Beginning-Level Japanese.” The Voice of Waflt, 2001.

  • Other Articles

    • K Aoki, M Isoyama, N. Kurokawa, and K. Miura. “Videos for Japanese Language Education.” Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, 2005.
    • Kurokawa, N., and H. Endo. “Facilitating Kanji Acquisition and Retention by Using Web-based Practice.” Proceedings of the 19th Seatj, 2004.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • JPN 102: Elementary Japanese 2023
  • JPN 121: Elementary Japanese for Learners with Kanji Background 2023
  • JPN 101: Elementary Japanese 2022
  • JPN 102: Elementary Japanese 2022
  • JPN 101: Elementary Japanese 2021
  • JPN 102: Elementary Japanese 2021

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