Junyuan Chen

Junyuan Chen is the Assistant Professor in Japanese and coordinates the Japanese program. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She also holds a Master's degree in Japanese linguistics from Kyushu University in Japan and a Bachelor's degree in Japanese Language and Culture from Zhejiang University in China. Her current research interests encompass Japanese sociolinguistics and teaching Japanese as a foreign language (JFL), with a special focus on the exploration of Japanese language teacher identities and teacher education.

Courses Taught

AST 310 Japan Today
JAPN 253 Second-Year Japanese 
JAPN 252 Second-Year Japanese 
JAPN 251 Second-Year Japanese 
JAPN 153 First-Year Japanese 
JAPN 152 First-Year Japanese 
JAPN 151 First-Year Japanese

Recent Publications

 
Chen J. (2023). Narratives to Identities: Japanese Graduate Teaching Assistants as Language Teachers. Journal of Language and Cultural Education. 11(2), 1-12.
Chen J. (2023). “M-san Again?”: Identity-in-Practice of a Japanese Graduate Teaching Assistant. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages. 35, 313-350.
Chen, J. (2023). Understanding Language Teacher Identities in L2 Teaching. Explorations in Teacher Development. 28(3), 52-61.
Chen J. (2022). Scaffolding in an Elementary-level Japanese Language Classroom: Question-Answer Interactions. Journal of Language and Cultural Education.10(1), 16-24