Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison 2001
  • B.A., Dickinson College 1999
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Lecturer in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and 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

  • Journal Articles

    • Kurokawa, N, Shinozaki, F, Ueda, A, and Yoshida, H. "Using SNS to Enhance Cross-Cultural Communication: Perspectives from EFL Teacher-Training & JFL Instruction." Proceedings of the CIEC PC Conference 2013 (July 2013). (Academic Article)
    • 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). (Academic Article)
    • 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). (Academic Article)
    • 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). (Academic Article)
    • 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). (Academic Article)
    • Kurokawa, N. "Pedagogical Use of the Fixed-form Verses in the JFL Instruction." proceedings of the 23rd SEATJ conference (2008). (Academic Article)
    • Kurokawa, N. "Learning beyond the Classrooms with iPods." proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Assisted Systems For Teaching & Learning Japanese (2007). (Academic Article)
    • Kurokawa, N. "Repetition in Japanese Conversational Discourse." ICU Studies in Japanese Language Education 3 (2007). (Academic Article)
    • K Aoki, MI, and Kurokawa, N. "Looking at Commercials: Windows into Culture and Language." proceedings of the 18th CATJ Annual Conference (2006). (Academic Article)
    • Kurokawa, N. "Classroom Activities for Beginning-Level Japanese." The Voice of WAFLT (2001). (Academic Article)

  • Other Articles

    • K Aoki, MI, Kurokawa, N, and Miura, K. "Videos for Japanese Language Education." (2005).
    • Kurokawa, N, and Endo, H. "Facilitating Kanji Acquisition and Retention by Using Web-based Practice." proceedings of the 19th SEATJ (2004). (Academic Article)  Link to Item
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • JPN 101: Elementary Japanese 2018
  • JPN 102: Elementary Japanese 2018
  • JPN 306: Advanced Japanese 2018

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