East Asian Languages and Cultures

Sanae Eda

Sanae Eda studies Japanese linguistics and language pedagogy. She received her B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Hiroshima University (1991), her first M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Puerto Rico (1994), and a second M.A. and a Ph.D. in Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy from the Ohio State University (1997, 2004). She held a position as an Educational Exchange Program (EEP) Lecturer and taught Japanese at the University of Puerto Rico for three years, where she was the first teacher ever to teach Japanese. She taught at the Middlebury College Japanese Language School for eight summers between 1994 ? 2004 and served as an assistant director of the Japanese School in 2004. She held a visiting lecturer position at Valparaiso University for one year before moving to K.U. in 2004.

She has examined the interaction between pragmatics and intonation in Japanese and has published a paper, "A New Approach to the Analysis of the Sentence Final Particles ne and yo: An Interface Between Prosody and Pragmatics" in Japanese Korean Linguistics Vol. 9: 167-180. Her current research project investigates the pattern of acquisition of Japanese intonation contours by native speakers of English. She also has had extensive experience in training teachers of Japanese as a foreign language.