Seiko Yasumoto

AA (Meiji University), BA (Pace University), MA (Columbia), MA (Macquarie University)
Room 544 Brennan Building

+61 2 9 351 4716

Seiko Yasumoto teaches and carries out research on language use in society as well as Japanese media and culture. Her research interests cover the analysis of women’s language, the portrayal of women in popular culture, youth culture and transnational media cultural flows in East Asia. She is currently an executive committee member of both the Oriental Society of Australia and the Sydney Network of Language and Culture.

• Language use in socio-cultural context.
• Media & cultural studies: language and culture, language and gender, youth culture, popular culture in Japan
• Transnational media culture in Asia.

Yasumoto recently completed a term of office as one of the three co-editors of the scholarly journal Ilha Do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity and Society. She is currently completing an article on the representation of women in Korean and Japanese television dramas. She a member of a research cluster that is working towards the publication of a journal on Asian media in transition. Besides her current research projects, Yasumoto is also developing ‘Anime’: an online multimedia project for teaching Japanese with M. Sata Khan under a TIES grants. She is one of the collaborative researchers engaged in a comparative study on the motivations of learners of Japanese with colleagues from North Carolina University, USA and The University of New England, Australia.

• Yasumoto, S. (2007) ‘The Representation of Women in Japanese Written Media’. Ilha Do Desterro: Expression, Identity and Society, Vol.50, Editora da UFSC.ISSN:0101-4846.
• Yasumoto, S. (2006) ‘The impact of the Korean Wave on Japan: A case study of the influence of trans-border electronic communication and the trans-national programming industry’. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/
• Sasagawa, Y., Yasumoto, S. (2006). 共同構築型の海外日本語教育実習プログラムをめざして、神戸親和大学教育研究センター紀要 第２巻 (A Transnational Educational Practice Program for Japanese Student Trainee Teachers: A Collaborative Initiative by Kobe Shinwa Women’s University, Japan and The University of Sydney, Australia), Research Centre for Higher Education, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University Press, Vol.2, 33-50.
• Aoyagi ,T.,Yasumoto, S., et al. (2006) モジュール交換方式を用いた国際遠隔授業の評 実践研究　第8巻岐阜大学 2006 (Assessment of International Distance Lectures through Module Exchange System), Gifu University Vol 8, 101-107.ISSN:1344-7718
• Yasumoto, S. (2005) ‘Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies in Australia in the 21st-Century’, International Conference on Education. Nanyang Technological University Singapore, CD ROM Proceedings.
• Yasumoto, S. (2003) ‘Effective Approaches to Adult Language Teaching in the Multi-Cultural Australian Classroom: Cultural Issues’, ABAC Journal: 23.3, 3-17.ISSN:0858-0855
• Yasumoto, S. (2000) ‘Teaching Japanese Language and Culture: An Interactive and Participatory Approach in Applied Linguistics’, Japanese Studies: Communities, Cultures, Critiques Vol.6, 15-22 Studies in Language and Linguistics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 2000. ISBN: 0732611954.
• Yasumoto, S. (1999) ‘The Portrayal of Women in Japanese Popular Songs’, Radio Interview: Radio National ABC “Arts Today” September 29, 1999.

Teaching

• JPNS 2672: Japanese Culture
• JPNS 3631: Japanese 9
• JPNS 3632: Japanese 10
• JPNS 2621: Japanese 5
• JPNS 2622: Japanese 6
• JPNS 1611: Japanese 1
• JPNS 1612: Japanese 2

Supervision

• Language use in socio-cultural context
• Media & Cultural Studies: Language & Culture, Language & Gender, Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia.

• Yasumoto, S. Representation of women in Korean and Japanese television drama: Reflection of global and trans-border influences. Presented at the 50 Anniversary of the Oriental Society of Australia International Conference, World Without Walls: East and West 21st Century Perspectives. The University of Sydney, 3-7 December, 2006.
• Yasumoto, S. The Impact of the Korean Wave on Japan. Presented at the School of Languages and Cultures’ Research Day. The University of Sydney, 3 November, 2006.
• 安本,笹川.共同構築型の海外日本語教育実習プログラムにおける学習ストラテジー・トレイニングの効果について.第７回国際日本研究・日本語教育シンポジウム：アジア太平洋地域における日本研究と日本語教育の変容と課題、香港中文大学2006年10月29－3日
  (Yasumoto, S. & Sasagawa.Y. Transnational Educational Practice Program for Japanese Trainee Teachers: Learning Strategies. Presented at The Seventh International Symposium on Japanese Studies and Japanese Language Education: Transformation and Challenges of Japanese Studies and Japanese Language Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. The University of Hong Kong, 29-30 October, 2006)
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Applying New Methods to the Three-Week Japanese Intensive Course’. Presented at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) 2006 conference: Language and Languages Global and Local Tensions, Queensland University, July 5-8, 2006.
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Messages in Japanese print and television media about Korea: reflection of popular culture’. Presented at the 16th Biennial conference of the Asia Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), The University of Wollongong, 26-20 June 2006.
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Teaching Japanese grammar using Website animation’. Presented at the Media and Technology Forum and Workshop, The University of Sydney, March 1st, 2006.
  Joint with Khan, M.　
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Intensive Language Learning: How we can all learn from this?’ Presented at the “Brief Encounter: Intensive Learning Summer and Winter School Symposium, The University of Sydney, December 12th 2005.
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Impact of Korean Television Drama in Japan-A Reflection of Global and Trans-border Influences and Japanese and Korean Cultural Proximity’. Presented at the Fourteenth Biennial Association of Australia Conference, 3-6 July, 2005, University of Adelaide. Panel Theme – ‘Japan’s Potential to Participate in a Global Information Market: does Japan’s media serve the people?’
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies in Australia in the 21st Century’. Presented at the International Conference on Education. 30 May - 1st June, 2005, Nanyang Technological University. Conference Theme – ‘Redesigning Pedagogy: Research, Policy & Practice’.
• Yasumoto, S. ‘Winter Sonata in Japan: The “Korean Wave”, global and trans-border influences on Japanese popular culture’. presented at the SYNLAC workshop. 3-4 February, 2005. The University of Sydney. Workshop Theme: Global Expectation and Local Reality.

• (a) Co-Editing scholarly journal
  Ilha Do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity and Society.Vol.50 Editora da UFSC.2007 ISSN: 0101-4846
  Chief Editor: J.L. Meurer.
• (b) Organizing committee member, OSA International Conference
  The 50th Anniversary of the Oriental Society of Australia International Conference, World Without Walls: East and West 21st Century Perspectives. The University of Sydney 3-7 December, 2006. Panel chair: Asian media in transition.-sub panels: New/on line media,
  Media discourse and society, Media and popular culture
• (c) Organizing committee member ALAA Sydney 27th National Congress (Applied Linguistics of Association of Australia) Macquarie University July 12-14 2002.
• (d) Organizing committee member of SYNLAC workshops.
  SYNLAC Workshop 2005: Language and Culture-Global expectation and local reality,
  The University of Sydney.
• SYNLAC Workshop 2004: Language and Culture-Expression, Identity and Society,
  The University of Sydney.