Asian Studies, German/Russian/East Asian Languages
Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Regional and Thematic Interests
Japanese linguistics, pedagogy and cultural studies
Profile
Hiromi Onishi is a lecturer in the department of Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian Studies. She has received her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies/Japanese Linguistics from the University of Arizona. Hiromi Onishi has taught beginning to advanced levels of Japanese as a foreign language and Japanese linguistics courses at Colorado College since 2015. Her primary research areas include phonetics and phonology of Japanese, second/third language acquisition, and language education for linguistic minority students. In addition to topics related to linguistics, Onishi is also interested in methodologies in foreign language education, and she regularly attends meetings on foreign language education to acquire techniques and methods she can apply in the classroom context. She is currently serving as a secretary for the Colorado Japanese Language Education Association.
Selected Publication
The effects of L2 experience on L3 perception. International Journal of Multilingualism, Vol. 13.
Japanese language classroom as a safe-zone for linguistic and cultural minority students. Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton, NJ
Accent and fluency in Third Language Acquisition. Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Jacksonville, FL
