Masafumi Honda

Faculty Information

Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics

Résumé

Education

B.A., English Education as a Foreign Language, University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, March 1982
Research Assistant, Play Therapy and Counseling, Exceptional Education, University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, April 1982 to August 1982
M.Ed., English Education, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, June 1984
Ed. D., Foreign Language Education, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., June 1988

Employment

September 1983 to June 1986 Research Assistant , Department of Language Education, University of Georgia September 1983 to September 1985 Japanese Instructor , Georgia Center for Continuing Education, University of Georgia April 1984 to March 1988 Japanese Language teacher , Georgia Japanese Language School, Atlanta, Georgia. September 1985 to June 1987 Japanese Instructor , Department of Romance language, University of Georgia September 1987 to June 1988 Japanese Instructor and Director , Department of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia August 1988 to May 1993 Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics , Department of Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai`i August 1993 to present Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics , Department of Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Books

Amerika ni ikiru Nihon no Kodomo: Daini gengo kakutoku to Jinkaku keisei (Japanese Children in the United States: Second Language Acquisition and Personality Development) 1990, Koubundou Press.

Bicultural ni nareru Hito (On becoming a bicultural person) 1999, Maruzen Library Press.