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Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad (2023)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B., & Iwasaki, N. (2023). Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad. In M. Derivry-Plard, & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (126-137). Editions des archives contemporaines

Making it your own by adapting it to what’s important to you”: Plurilingual Critical Literacies to promote L2 Japanese users’ sense of ownership of Japanese (2020)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N., & Kumagai, Y. (2020). Making it your own by adapting it to what’s important to you”: Plurilingual Critical Literacies to promote L2 Japanese users’ sense of ownership of Japanese. In S. Bagga-Gupta, A. Golden, L. Holm, H. P. Laursen, & A. Pitkanen-Huhta (Eds.), Reconceptualizing connections between language, learning and literacy (165-186). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26994-4_9

The dichotomy between native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) remains ubiquitous across different language-learning contexts despite increasing mobility and multilingualism of society. L2 Japanese learners in particular may find themselves p... Read More about Making it your own by adapting it to what’s important to you”: Plurilingual Critical Literacies to promote L2 Japanese users’ sense of ownership of Japanese.

Pair-work dynamics: Stronger learners’ languaging engagement and learning outcomes for the Japanese polysemous particles ni/de (2018)
Journal Article
Masuda, K., & Iwasaki, N. (2018). Pair-work dynamics: Stronger learners’ languaging engagement and learning outcomes for the Japanese polysemous particles ni/de. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 5(1), 46-71. https://doi.org/10.1558/lst.34514

Adopting microgenetic analysis of languaging (Swain, 2006) in pair-work, this study aims to advance our understanding of learners’ developmental processes for the complex concepts of Japanese particles ni/de. Two pairs whose learning outcomes differe... Read More about Pair-work dynamics: Stronger learners’ languaging engagement and learning outcomes for the Japanese polysemous particles ni/de.

Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference? (2016)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N. (2016). Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?. In N. Iwasaki, P. Sells, & K. Akita (Eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (193-218). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695-10

This chapter addresses the issues by examining how first language (L1) English or Korean speakers of second language (L2) Japanese describe Motion events depicted in animated cartoons, by first selecting Motion events for which many L1 Japanese speak... Read More about Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?.

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
Book
Iwasaki, N., Sells, P., & Akita, K. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.

「日本語のために移動する学習者たち—複数言語環境のヨーロッパで—」Presented in Panel「複言語環境に生きる人々の「日本語使用、日本語学習」の意味とアイデンティティ」 (2015)
Journal Article
Iwasaki, N. (2015). 「日本語のために移動する学習者たち—複数言語環境のヨーロッパで—」Presented in Panel「複言語環境に生きる人々の「日本語使用、日本語学習」の意味とアイデンティティ」. Japanese language education in Europe =ヨーロッパ日本語教育 = Yōroppa nihongo kyōiku, 20, 65-70

ある日本語学習者の日本・日本観の変遷：曖昧さをめぐって [Coming to terms with Japanese vagueness: A plurilingual learner of Japaense.] Language Education in Europe 19. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iwasaki, N. (2014, August). ある日本語学習者の日本・日本観の変遷：曖昧さをめぐって [Coming to terms with Japanese vagueness: A plurilingual learner of Japaense.] Language Education in Europe 19. Presented at 18th European Japanese Education Symposium, Ljubljana, Slovenia

ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望：多文化・多言語を礎としたネットワーキングと恊働 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iwasaki, N. (2014, January). ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望：多文化・多言語を礎としたネットワーキングと恊働. Presented at 大阪大学日本語・日本文化国際フォーラム「ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望」, 大阪大学日本語日本文化教育センター