Yumiko Ishiwata O'Meara

Language Instructor in Japanese

School of Education, Humanities and Languages

Role

Yumiko has been teaching Japanese language since 2013 in Romania, Ireland, Malaysia, and the UK. She is experienced in curriculum and teaching materials development and in teaching students of varying ability. Currently, she manages Level 6 modules as module leader for fourth year students. She has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) since 2020.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

Module Leader

  • Japanese 3A
  • Japanese 4A

Co-teacher

  • Reading and Writing 1A and 1B
  • Japanese 4B

Research

  • Presentation, The Class Activities of Japanese Language Production: An analysis of the acquisition of critical thinking and academic Japanese, [In Japanese], The 18th British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Annual Conference, Cambridge, August 2015 *published on BATJ Journal, No.17, 2014
  • Poster presentation, Japanese Classroom Activities at UK University Courses with consideration of Graduate Attributes, [In Japanese], The 17th British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Annual Conference, London, August 2014
  • Presentation, An Analysis of the utilisation of written information from Japanese Language Students’ Narrative Production – For the realisation of students’ oral automatization  [In Japanese], The 17th Symposium on Japanese Language Education in Europe, Madrid, September 2013 *published on Japanese Language Education in Europe, No. 18, 2014
  • Presentation, An Analysis of University Students’ Presentations in Japanese - Focusing on argument logic and opinion cogency [In Japanese], The 16th British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Annual Conference, Nottingham, August 2013 *published on BATJ Journal, No.15, 2014
  • Poster Presentation, An Analysis of the Problems Encountered by Malaysian Japanese Language Beginners in Contact Situations: Focusing on Strategies to Facilitate Conversation [In Japanese], The 7th JFKL Conference on Japanese Language Education, Kuala Lumpur, October 2010
  • Presentation, A Teaching Report of practices for Listener’s conversation strategies: A Suggestion of listening input practice [In Japanese], I Simposio sobre la Enseñanza de la Lengua Japonesa en España, Salamanca, June 2009

Centres and institutes

Publications

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Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

  • Member of British Association of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ)
  • Member of Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE)