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Noriko Iwasaki Assistant Professor of Japanese M.A. in TESOL, Portland State University Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona Email: niwasaki@ucdavis.edu Phone: (530) 752-0310 Office: 313 Sproul Hall Office Hours

Research Interests
Second Language Acquisition (grammatical development, impact of study abroad), psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), Language testing

Current Projects
Assessment of the development of oral proficiency after studying abroad, the role of grammatical information in language production, iconicity in the Japanese language as observed in dative construction and in mimetic words (e.g., onomatopoeia words).

Major Publications

• Iwasaki, N. (in preparation). Processes in L2 Japanese sentence production. In R. Mazuka, M. Nakayama, and Y. Shirai (Eds.). Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Vol. 2, Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press.
• Iwasaki, N. (2003). L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and use of case particles, In S. Karimi, (Ed), Word order and scrambling. 273-300. Oxford: Blackwell

Honors and Awards

• Dissertation grant from National Science Foundation

Courses Taught
Japanese 1-3, Japanese 136.
Currently in progress of planning an introductory course of Japanese linguistics.