Nobuko Chikamatsu
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Associate Professor of Japanese
Office: McGaw 315k
Telephone: 773.325.1868
Email: nchikama@depaul.edu
Areas of specialization:
Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Word Recognition, Reading, Writing, Content-based Instruction
Selected publications:
- "Developmental word recognition: A study of L1 English readers of L2 Japanese. " The Modern Language Journal, 90 (in press).
- "L2 Japanese kanji memory and retrieval: An experiment on the tip-of-the-pen (TOP) phenomenon." Chapter 1 in Cook, V., and Bassetti, B. (Eds.) Second Language Writing Systems, p.71-96, London: Multilingual Matters. (2005).
- "The effects of computer usage on L2 Japanese writing." Foreign Language Annals, 36, 114-127. (2003).
- "Recent research in reading Japanese as a foreign language." Chapter 5 in Hatasa, A. Y. (Ed.) Introduction to Japanese as Second Language Research, p.187-206, Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan (2003).
- "Japanese logographic character frequency list for cognitive science research." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computer, 32, 482-500, co-authors: N. Chikamatsu, S. Yokoyama, H. Nozaki, E. Long, & S. Fukuda (2000).