Dr. Kimi Kondo-Brown 近藤ブラウン妃美
My CV (レジュメ）
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
College of Arts, Languages & Letters
Professor
Graduate Faculty in Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese BA, East Asian Languages & Literatures MA & PhD programs)
Cooperating Graduate Faculty in Department of Second Language Studies (PhD in Second Language Studies)
I was the lead editor and author of this 2019 book on heritage language education published by Kuroshio, an academic publisher in language studies in Japan. It was reprinted in 2020.
Kondo-Brown, K. (2021). Heritage Language Assessment. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of heritage languages and linguistics (pp. 892-911). UK: Cambridge University Press.
Introduction to assessment for Japanese language teachers (printed in 2012, reprinted in 2019 and 2022). Tokyo: Kuroshio Publisher.
Keynote talk「日本語学習者のための評価を考える― ニューノーマルに対応する中で (Assessment for Japanese Language Learners under the New Normal)」at the 27th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum. The talk is published here: https://pjpf.princeton.edu/
Kondo-Brown, K. (Lead Author) & Brown, J. D. (Eds.). (2008). Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean heritage language students: Curriculum needs, materials, and assessment (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional series). Milton Park, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. The co-editor, Dr. James "J.D." Brown, is faculty emeritus in the Dept of Second Language Studies.
Kondo-Brown, K. (Ed.). (2006). Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian immigrants. (Studies in Bilingualism Series, 32). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Kondo-Brown, K. (lead editor), Saito-Abbot, Y., Satsutani, S., Tsutsui, M., & Wehmeyer, A. K. (Eds.). (2013). New perspectives on Japanese language learning, linguistics, and culture. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Languages Resource Center.
This volume collects 21 peer-reviewed assessment modules developed by participants in the Assessments for Japanese Language Instruction Summer Institute that I directed in 2012.
Brown, J. D., & Kondo-Brown, K. (Eds.) (2006). Perspectives on teaching connected speech: To second language speakers. Honolulu, HL: National Foreign Language Resource Center.
My personal narrative "Ohana" is a trade book published by Sanichi Shobo, an established publisher in Japan.
About the photo: Folks in my hometown Tokushima (徳島) have enjoyed the annual Awa Dance (阿波踊り) festival for centuries. This is an old picture of my father (the one holding the banner for the dance group). When he was still alive, we enjoyed dancing together while chanting. The chant goes like this: “Odoru aho ni miru aho. Onaji aho nara odorana son son! (Those who dance are fools. Those who only watch are fools, too. Well, if you can’t be smart in either way, you might as well just dance!