Junko Hagiwara
College Lecturer in Japanese
Senior Faculty Lecturer in Japanese Language
Junko Hagiwara is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. She studied at the National Institute for Japanese Language and received an MA from Ealing College of Higher Education. Before coming to Oxford, she worked at Hosei University in Tokyo, the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Shiga, and the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe and the British Association for Teaching Japanese. She served as Chair of the British Association for Teaching Japanese from 2007 to 2009. She is also a Year Abroad Coordinator.
Undergraduate teaching
Junko teaches Japanese language to students from first year through to finalist level at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Her teaching includes Japanese grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, translation, speaking, and listening.
Graduate teaching
She teaches academic Japanese (reading, essay writing, translation, presentation skills) at the Nissan Institute.
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Research interests
Her research interests include oral communication, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
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Publications
‘Survey on Attitudes Towards the “My Interesting Story” Competition’, in Toshiyuki Sadanobu (ed.), Studies in Spoken Language and Orality Culture with Special Focus on People’s Daily Funny Talk as Marginal Art (Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo, 2021).
‘The Current State of Japanese Language Education and the Issues in the UK’, in Morio Hamada (ed.), Language and Culture (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2016).