Masahiko Minami

Minami, M.(2010 - 2012). FLANC (Foreign Language Association of Northern California) Newsletters
- FLANC Newsletter Spring 2012 President's Message
- FLANC Newsletter Fall 2011 President's Message
- FLANC Newsletter Spring 2011 President's Message
- FLANC Newsletter Fall 2010 President's Message
Minami, M. (2007). Active imaginations: Verb forms in narratives told by English-Japanese bilingual children. In M. Minami (Ed.), Applying theory and research to learning Japanese as a foreign language (pp. 248-264). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Minami, M. (2007). The development of narrative discourse patterns in the learning of Japanese as a foreign language. In M. Minami (Ed.), Applying theory and research to learning Japanese as a foreign language (pp. 198-214). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Minami, M. (2007). Preface. In M. Minami (Ed.), Applying theory and research to learning Japanese as a foreign language (pp. viii-xx). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Minami, M. (2006). Children's narrative structures. In M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, & Y. Shirai (Eds.), The handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics Vol. II: Japanese (pp. 116-122). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Minami, M. (2005). Bilingual narrative development in English and Japanese — A form/function approach. In J. Cohen, K. T. McAlister, K. Rolstad, & J. MacSwan (Eds.), ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (pp. 1618-1629). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Imase, H., & Minami, M. (2004). Computer-assisted language learning as applied to basic relational acquisition in beginning Japanese. In Y. Saito-Abbott, R. Donovan, & T. Abbott (Eds.), Language on the edge: Implications for teaching foreign languages and cultures (Emerging technologies in teaching languages and culture: Volume 4) (pp. 63-78). LARC Press, San Diego State University.
Minami, M., & Ovando, C. J. (2004). Language issues in multicultural contexts. In J. Banks (Ed.) & C. McGee Banks (Associate Ed.), Handbook of research on multicultural education (2nd ed., pp. 567-588). San Francisco: Jossey-Baas.
Minami, M. (2004). Adjective, adjectival noun, and copula morphology: An analysis report. In K. Otomo (Ed.), Comparative research for a developmental index for first and second language of Japanese and English [Research project No. 13410034, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture] (pp. 97-105). Tokyo: Tokyo Gakugei University.
Minami, M., & Fujiwara, M. (2003). Non-native patterns in narratives of Japanese-as-a-second-language learners. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Speech, Writing and Context (pp. 112-117). Osaka, Kansai Gaidai University.
McCabe, A., & Minami, M. (2003). Asian American children. In A. McCabe & L. S. Bliss (Eds.), Patterns of narrative discourse (pp. 91-101). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Minami, M. (2003). The role of maternal input in facilitating the development of children's personal narratives. In S. P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research, Vol. 21 (pp. 91-117). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Minami, M. (2001). Language and literacy development of bilingual Japanese children. In J. K. Peyton, D. A. Ranard, & S. McGinnis (Eds.), Heritage languages in America (p. 275). McHenry, IL: Delta Systems.
Minami, M. (2001). Styles of parent-child book reading in Japanese families. In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal, & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Research on child language acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (pp. 483-503). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Minami, M., & Aramaki, S. (2001). The effectiveness of computer-assisted language-learning (CALL) programs for teaching Japanese. In Y. Saito-Abbott, R. Donovan, T. F. Abbott, & P. Kennedy (Eds.), Emerging technologies in teaching languages and cultures: Effective use of technology for language learning, what works and what we've learned (pp. 55-71). LARC, the National Foreign Language Resource Center at San Diego State University.
Minami, M. (2001). Taking a different point of view: Children's acquisition of linguistic perspective-taking devices. In H. Sirai (Ed.), A cross-linguistic study for the universal developmental index [Research project No. 11694009, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture] (pp. 173-190). Nagoya: Chukyo University.
Minami, M. (2000). A cross-cultural comparison of preschoolers' narrative discourse skills and parental scaffolding. The 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, CD-ROM Proceedings.
Minami, M., & Shibatani, K. (2000). Narrating a frog story: The acquisition of narrative by second-language learners. The 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, CD-ROM Proceedings.
Minami, M. (2000). Crossing borders: The politics of schooling Asian students. In C. J. Ovando & P. L. McLaren (Eds.), The politics of multiculturalism and bilingual education: Students and teachers caught in the cross fire (pp. 188-207). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Minami, M. (1997). Cultural constructions of meaning: Cross-cultural comparisons of mother-child conversations about the past. In C. Mandell & A. McCabe (Eds.), The problem of meaning: Cognitive and behavioral approaches (pp. 297-345). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Holloway, S. D., & Minami, M. (1996). Production and reproduction of culture: The dynamic role of mothers and children in early socialization. In D. Shwalb & B. Shwalb (Eds.), Japanese childrearing: Two generations of scholarship (pp. 164-176). New York: Guilford Press.
Minami, M., & McCabe, A. (1996). Compressed collections of experiences. In A. McCabe (Ed.), Chameleon readers: Some problems cultural differences in narrative structure pose for multicultural literacy programs (pp. 72-97). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Minami, M., & Ovando, C. J. (1995). Language issues in multicultural contexts. In J. Banks & C. McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of research on multicultural education (pp. 427-444). New York: Macmillan.
Minami, M. (1995). ESL: Asian high school students’ perspectives. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, April, 1996, ED 389 208.)
Hemphill, L., & Minami, M. (1994). U.S. classrooms: A sociolinguistic perspective. In L. B. Barnes, C. R. Christensen, & A. J. Hansen (Eds.), Teaching and the case method (pp. 244-248). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Minami, M. (1991). Notes on books. In M. Minami, & B. P. Kennedy (Eds.), Language issues in literacy and bilingual/multicultural education (pp. 542-555). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.
Minami, M. (1990). Children’s narrative structure: How do Japanese children talk about their own stories? ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 335 961.

Paper read — Minami, M. (2012, April). Explanatory and narrative talk across settings. Paper presented at the Northern California Japanese Teachers’ Association (NCJTA) Annual Spring Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2012, March). The many aspects of bilingualism: Linguistic and educational implications of English-Japanese bilingual children’s adaptations in narrative discourse. Paper presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference, Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (2012, February). Connectives as discourse markers: A study from the cognitive viewpoint (Original title: danwa hyooshiki to shite no setsuzoku hyoogen: ninchi-teki sokumen kara no koosatsu). An Open Symposium for Japanese Language Education in a Multicultural Society at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2011, November). Conducting business in Japanese: Curriculum development for business Japanese courses. Paper presented at the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention & World Languages Expo, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2011, November). Getting down to business: Curriculum development for business Japanese courses. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2011 Conference, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2011, June). Multiple approaches to understanding English-Japanese bilingual children’s narratives. A special lecture at the Tenth Anniversary of the Graduate School of Language, Communication, and Culture, Kwanseigakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2011, June). Narrative production by English-Japanese Bilingual Children: A description of narrative aspects from multiple points of view (Original title: nichi-ei bairingaru jidoo no monogatari sanshutsu: fukusuu no shiten kara toraeta katari no yoosoo). A special lecture at the Kagamiyama Colloquium, Department of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, Faculty of Education, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2011, June). Linguistic and educational implications of bilingual children’s adaptations in narrative discourse. A special lecture at the Fifth Open Forum, Department of Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2011, April). Conducting business in Japanese: Enhancing business Japanese pedagogy. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) 2011 Annual Conference, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.
Paper read— Minami, M. (2011, March). Creating interactional business Japanese classrooms. Paper presented at the 2011 California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Conference, Santa Clara, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2010, November). Enhancing business Japanese pedagogy. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2010 Conference, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2010, June). Cohesion and coherence in narrative discourse: How to evaluate stories told by English-Japanese bilingual children (Original title: katari no kessoku-sei/ikkan-sei: nichi-ei bairingaru jidoo no sakuwa o doo hyootei sru ka). A special lecture at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper read — Madihian, R., & Minami, M. (2010, March). Keitaishosetsu (cell phone novels): A comparative study. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2010, March). Telling stories in two different languages: Linguistic and educational implications of bilingual children’s adaptations in narrative. Invited lecture/presentation at the Study of Language, Discourse, and Social Interaction (SOLDASI) Meeting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Yasutake, K., & Minami, M. (2009, November). Analysis of Japanese pop-songs from the viewpoint of cultural change. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2009 Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Computer workshop — Nam, G., & Minami, M. (2009, November). Learning Hiragana and Katakana. Workshop organized and provided at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2009 Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2009, June). Japanese-language learners’ narrative styles and their proficiency levels: Their relationships with the narrative topic (Original title: nihongo gakushuusha no katari no sutairu to shuujukudo: narrative topikku to no kankei). An inauguration lecture at the Institute for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Poster presented — Mikogami, K., & Minami, M. (2009, May). Japanese language learner’s strategies in declining requests by email (Original title: E-mail ni okeru nihongo gakushuusha no irai ni taisuru kotowari no sutratejii). Poster presented at the Japan Second Language Association 9th Annual Conference, 2005 (J-SLA2009), Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2009, April). What does storytelling tell us about language and learning of bilingual students: Implications for language sciences and children’s education. Invited lecture at the Spring 2009 Colloquium Series/Center for Teaching & Faculty Development (CTFD) Workshop, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2009, January). Looking for frogs in the narrative stream: referential topic management in English-Japanese bilingual children’s narratives. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2009, January). Tall tales: The acquisition of narrative discourse strategies by adult learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Poster presented — Mikogami, K., & Minami, M. (2008, July). Strategies for Japanese language learners for declining requests (Original title: nihongo gakushuusha no kotowari no sutratejii). Poster presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
Conference co-organized — Minami, M. (2008, March). The Sixth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ6). San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2008, January). How to tell a good story: A study of bilingual children’s styles of storytelling with implications for language sciences and children’s education. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2008, January). The influence of topic choice on the development of target language narration by learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Computer workshop — Minami, M., Kurioka, Y., Hoke, S., & Nishida, S. (2007, November). Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programs for teaching Japanese. Workshop organized and provided at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2007 Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Misawa, N., & Minami, M. (2007, July). Transitions in advertisements that appear in male magazines (Original title: Dansei kookokubun no hensen). Paper presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Miyagi, Japan.
Poster presented — Tashiro, K., & Minami, M. (2007, July). Japanese conversation strategiesobserved in the electronic bulletin boards which Japanese residing in the U.S.A. frequently write in(Original title: Zaibei nihon-jin ga ooku kakikomu denshi-keejiban ni okeru nihongo no kaiwa sutotatejii). Poster presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Miyagi, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M., Hoke, S., Nishida, S., & Kurioka, Y. (2007, April). Techno-Japanese: Computer-assisted language-learning (CALL) programs for teaching Japanese. Paper presented at the 2007 California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Conference, Santa Clara, CA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2007, March). How to tell a good story: Bilingual children’s styles of story construction and their linguistic and educational implications. Invited lecture at the Spring 2007 Brown Bag lecture series, the Linguistics Graduate Student Association, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2006, August). Touchy subjects: The influence of topic choice on narrative proficiency by learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Paper presented at the International Conference on Japanese Language Education (2006 ICJLE), Columbia University, New York.
Poster presented — Minami, M., & Kanazawa, S. (2006, June). An analysis of narrative communication strategies used by foreign language learners. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), International Christian University, Tokyo Japan.
Poster presented — Kajiwara, M., & Minami, M. (2006, June). Referntial topic management in English-Japanese bilingual children's narratives (Original title: Nichi-ei bilingual jidoo no katari ni okeru topic kanri). Poster presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), International Christian University, Tokyo Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Fukuda, S. (2006, April). Action and adventure: Use of verb forms in the narratives of Japanese-English bilingual children. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Francisco, CA.
Panel — Minami, M. (2006, April). The development of narrative structure: Japanese as a heritage language and as a foreign language. Panel chaired and organized at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2006, April). Telling good stories in different languages: Linguistic and educatonal implications of bilingual children's narrative adaptations. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2006 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Poster presented — Urayama, H., & Minami, M. (2006, March). Narrative structure development in Japanese as a foreign languag. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ5), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Computer workshop — Minami, M. (2006, March). CLAN workshop. Workshop organized and provided at the 5th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ5), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Conference chaired — Minami, M. (2006, March). The Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ5). San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2006, January). The development of narrative discourse skills in Japanese by adult learners of the language. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2006, January). Aspects of bilingualism: Case studies of school-age children with Japanese as their heritage language. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.
Paper read — Kajiwara, M., & Minami, M. (2005, December). How to introduce and maintain a topic in narrative (Original title: narrative ni okeru topic no doonyuu iji no hoohoo ni tsuite). Paper presented at the 16th Japan Association Second Language Acquisition (JASLA) Conference, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.
Computer workshop — Minami, M. (2005, November). How to analyze communicative interactions: A CLAN tutorial. Workshop organized and provided at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2005 Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2005, September). Bilingualism and bilingual education. World Reach Educational Seminar Series, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (2005, June). Analysis of narrative of non-native speakers of Japanese: The influence of the choice of topics on the development of target language narration (Original title: Dai-2 gengo to shite no taikendan no bunseki: wadai ga hanashi no sutairu ni ataeru eikyoo). Poster presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2005, June). Bilingual children's styles of story construction and their linguistic and educational implications. Symposium paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Paper read — Fujiyama, E., & Minami, M. (2005, June). Use of verb forms in narratives told by English-Japanese bilingual children. Symposium paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2005, June). The many dimensions of narrative development in English-Japanese bilingual children. Symposium paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Symposium — Minami, M. (2005, June). The many dimensions of narrative development in English-Japanese bilingual children. Symposium organized and chaired at the 7th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2005, June). Bilingual development: Vocabulary building and storytelling. Invited lecture at the Department of Psychology, the Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Poster presented — Nonaka, Y., & Minami, M. (2005, May). Strategies for responding to compliments by foreign language learners of Japanese (Original title: Home kotoba ni taisuru hento sutorateji no shutoku: gaikokugo gakushusha no baai). Poster presented at the Japan Second Language Association 5th Annual Conference, 2005 (J-SLA2005), Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M., Imagawa, K., & Takata, M. (2005, March). High tech or low tech: Methods for teaching Japanese numeric classifiers. Paper presented at the Seventh Annual "Digital Stream" Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Culture, California State University, Monterey Bay.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2005, March). The many facets of bilingual abilities: The case of school-age children of Japanese heritage. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5), Barcelona, Spain.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2005, January). The development of narrative structures in the acquisition of Japanese as a foreign language: Does the topic influence the narrative style. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cross-Linguistic Influence on Second Language Acquisition, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M., Imagawa, K., & Takata, M. (2004, November). Methods for teaching Japanese numeric classifiers. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2004 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., Imase, H., & Fukuda, S. (2004, November). Teaching casual speech in the foreign language classroom. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2004 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Poster presented — Nonaka, Y., & Minami, M. (2004, July). The acquisition of strategies with regard to responding to compliments in Japanese (Original title: Nihongo ni okeru home-kotoba ni taisuru hentoo sutoratejii no shuutoku ni tsuite). Poster presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (2004, July). Some aspects of bilingual ability: Case studies of English-Japanese bilingual children. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan.
Poster presented — Minami, M., & Kajiwara, M. (2004, June). Narrative analysis: Japanese-English comparison of topic introduction and topic maintenance (Original title: Naratibu bunseki: topikku no doonyuu, iji ni kansuru nichi-ei hikaku o tooshite). Poster presented at the 4th Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2004), Gunma, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2004, April). The many dimensions of bilingual abilities: Case studies of English-Japanese bilingual children. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2004 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Conference chaired — Minami, M. (2004, April). The Fourth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ4). San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Urayama Nishida, H. (2004, March). Analysis of narrative of non-native speakers of Japanese. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2004 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2004, March). Interdependence of Japanese and English knowledge in language and literacy among bilingual children: A study of standardized test outcomes. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, San Diego, CA.
Paper read — Fukuda, S., & Minami, M. (2004, March). "Frog, where are you?": Storytelling performance of bilingual children. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, San Diego, CA.
Paper read — Fujiyama, E., & Minami, M. (2004, March). Tense and narrative development in the frog stories told by bilingual children. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, San Diego, CA.
Paper read — Saito Fu, M., & Minami, M. (2004, March). Analysis of bilingual children's narratives: Referential topic management. Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, San Diego, CA.
Session — Minami, M. (2004, March). Studies in narrative competence: Bilingual children tell the story in two languages. Session chaired and organized at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, San Diego, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Fujiwara, M. (2003, August). Non-native patterns in narratives of Japanese-as-a-second-language learners. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Speech, Writing and Context (ICSWC2): Exploring Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Osaka, Japan.
Poster presented — Minami, M., Fujiyama, E., & Fukuda, S. (2003, July). Universals and language-specific aspects of narrative development in English-Japanese bilingual children. Poster presented at the 8th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Poster presented — Minami, M., & Kanazawa, S. (2003, July). The development of narrative discourse strategies in the learning of Japanese as a second language. Poster presented at the 8th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Paper read and symposium organized and chaired — Minami, M. (2003, July). The importance of socialization in the development of narrative discourse skills in children. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Invited symposium — Minami, M. (2003, July). What individuals learn from participation in different kinds of social structures: Multiparty discourse, peer discourse," Symposium organized and chaired at the 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Paper read (also in poster session) — Minami, M., & Fujiwara, M (2003, July). The development of narrative structure in the acquisition of Japanese as a second language. Paper and poster presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2003, May). Bilingual narrative development in English and Japanese: A form/function approach. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB4), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Paper read — Imase, H., & Minami, M. (2003, April). Computer-assisted language learning as applied to basic relational acquisition in beginning Japanese: Two. Paper presented at the 2003 California Language Teachers Association (CLTA), Sacramento, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Imase, H. (2003, March). Computer-assisted language learning as applied to basic relational acquisition in beginning Japanese: One. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual "Digital Stream" Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Culture, California State University, Monterey Bay.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Kanazawa, S. (2003, February). Communication strategies used by second/foreign language learners: Narrative analysis. Paper presented at Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2003, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2003, January). Culture-specific language styles: The development of Japanese children's narrative discourse skills and literacy. Invited lecture at the Cognition and Development Colloquium, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2003, January). The development of narrative and literacy skills in Japanese children. Invited lecture (by the Institute for Japanese Studies, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Department of East Asian languages and Literatures) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Imase, H. (2002, November). Interactive second language learning: Bilingualim in the computer age. Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2002 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2002, July). The language continuum: Narrative discourse skills in English-Japanese bilingual Children. Paper presented at the 2002 Joint Conference of the IX International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD), Madison, WI. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics ED 467 742.)
Paper read — Minami, M. (2002, July). Keeping Japanese alive: Narrative discourse skills in English-Japanese bilingual children. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
Poster presented — Minami, M., Fujiwara, M., & Kanazawa, S. (2002, May). An application of the Labovian approach to Japanese narratives: A structure-based analysis (Original title: Dai-2-gengo to shite no nihongo narrative koozoo bunseki). Paper presented at the 2nd Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2002), Kyoto, Japan.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2002, May). Culture-specific language styles: The development of oral narrative and literacy. Invited lecture at the Spring 2002 Colloquium Series, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., Fukuda, S., & Fujiyama, E. (2002, April). Correspondence of achievement levels in first and second languages in the area of vocabulary development: From the perspective of heritage language maintenance (Original title: Goi kakutoku tassei reberu ni okeru dai 1 gengo to dai 2 gengo no sookansei: keishoo nihongo no kanten kara no koosatsu). Paper presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar 2002, Washington, DC.
Conference chaired — Minami, M. (2002, March). The Third International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ3). San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., Nishida, H., & Shibatani, K. (2001, June). The development of narrative in second language acquisition: Frog stories. Paper presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2001, June). The role of maternal input in facilitating the development of children's personal narratives. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Berkeley, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2001, April). Holding onto a native tongue: Retaining bilingualism for school-age children of Japanese heritage. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2001 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2001, March). Parental influences on children's developing narrative skill: A cross-cultural study. Paper presented at Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2000, August). Vocabulary development in bilingual and language-minority children.Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Kyoto, Japan. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics ED 444373.)
Poster presented — Minami, M., & Shibatani, K. (2000, July). Frog stories: Second-language learners' narrative development.Poster presented at the 7th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (2000, May). Developmental and cross-cultural aspects of children's narration and literacy. Invited lecture at the Developmental Psychology Brown Bag series, Spring Quarter 2000, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (2000, May). Establishing viewpoint: Wrapping-up devices in Japanese oral narrative discourse.Paper presented at the 5th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL) Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Aramaki, S. (2000, April). Interactive foreign/second language learning: Interaction in the computer age. Paper presented at the 2000 California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Conference, Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA.
Conference co-chaired — Minami, M., & Alam, Y. S. (2000, April). The Second International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ2). San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Aramaki, S. (2000, March). The effectiveness of computer-assisted language-learning (CALL) programs for teaching Japanese. Paper presented at the Second Annual "Digital Stream" Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Culture, California State University, Monterey Bay.
Invited paper read — Minami, M. (1999, December). Learning culture-specific language styles: The development of oral narrative discourse and literacy.Paper presented at the TalkBank Workshop on Classroom Discourse, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (1999, October). Language skills and literacy development of bilingual and language-minority children. Poster presented at the National Conference on Heritage Languages in America, Long Beach, CA.
Invited lecture — Minami, M. (1999, September). Learning culture-specific language styles: From oral narrative to literacy. Invited lecture at the Developmental Colloquia, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1999, August). Book-reading styles of Japanese mothers. Paper presented at the First Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Sohia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M., & Shibatani, K. (1999, August). Narrating a frog story: The acquisition of narrative by second-language learners. Paper presented at the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA '99), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1999, August). A cross-cultural comparison of preschoolers' narrative discourse skills and parental scaffolding. Paper presented at the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA '99), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (1999, July). Styles of parent-child book-reading in Japanese families. Poster presented at the VIIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), San Sebastian, Spain. (ERIC Clearing House on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, National Parent Information Network, PS 028 141.)
Invited paper read — Minami, M. (1998, November). Interaction and grammar: Co-construction.Paper presented at the Department of Psychology of the University of California, Berkeley.
Poster presented — Minami, M. (1998, August). Socio-Emotional Development in Preschool Years: A Narrative Study. Poster presented at the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), San Francisco, CA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1997, April). The development of Japanese children's narrative skills: Linguistic devices and strategies to encode their perspective and emotion. Paper presented at the 1997 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Washington, DC. (ERIC Clearing House on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, National Parent Information Network, PS 025 699.)
Paper read — Minami, M. (1997, April). Cultural pathways to early socio-emotional development. Paper presented at the 1997 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Washington, DC.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1997, March). Learning to narrate: Patterns of linguistic devices in Japanese narrative. Paper presented at the 1997 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Orlando, FL.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1997, March). Cultural constructions of meaning: Cross-cultural comparisons of mother-child conversations about the past. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Student Research Conference and 14th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Poster workshop — Minami, M. (1996, September). Narrative styles of Japanese mothers and their children. Poster presented at the Growing Mind Conference (Centennial of Piaget's birth), Geneva, Switzerland. (ERIC Clearing House on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, National Parent Information Network, PS 025 698.)
Paper read — Minami, M. (1996, July). Getting the story: A cross-cultural study of parental styles of narrative discourse elicitation. Paper presented at the 5th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1996, March). Parental styles of narrative elicitation and children's narrative discourse skill. Paper presented at the 1996 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Chicago, IL. Lowell, MA: University of Massachusetts. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, ED 397 660.)
Paper read — Minami, M. (1996, March). A storytime: Parental styles of narrative elicitation and children's developing narrative skill. Paper presented at the 1st Annual Student Research Conference, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1996, February). Narrative styles of Japanese mothers and their children. Paper presented at the 13th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Paper read — Minami, M. (1996, January). Parental styles in eliciting personal narratives and developing narrative skill. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Diego, CA. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, ED 396 561.)
Paper read and symposium organized — Shaw, T., Minami, M., Sing, R., Michahelles, R., & Chen, X. (1995, March). Crossing borders: Asian students' perspectives on life in U.S. high schools. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Boston, MA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1995, March). Japanese preschool children's personal narratives: A sociolinguistic study. Paper presented at the 1995 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Long Beach, CA. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, August, 1995, ED 381 035.)
Paper read — Minami, M. (1994, March). English and Japanese: Cross-cultural comparison of narrative elicitation patterns. Paper presented at the 1994 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Baltimore, MD. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, ED 403 734.)
Paper read and symposium organized — Minami, M., Holloway, S., Eggers, C., Rambaud, M., & Sugimori, N. (1994, February). Early socialization of children in different cultures. Paper presented at the 12th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read — Minami, M. (1994, January). Long conversational turns or frequent turn exchanges: Cross-cultural comparison of parental narrative elicitation. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, August, 1994, ED 368 202.)
Keynote paper read — McCabe, A., & Minami, M. (1993, November). Symposium on narrative — Chameleon readers: Some implications of cultural differences in narrative structure for language and literacy acquisition. Keynote invited paper presented at the New England Child Language Association (cosponsored by the Boston University Departments of Psychology and Applied Linguistics).
Paper read — Minami, M., & McCabe, A. (1993, July). Social interaction and discourse style: Culture-specific parental styles of interviewing and children's narrative structure. Paper presented at the 4th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Kobe, Japan. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, July, 1994, ED 367 188.)
Paper read and symposium organized — Minami, M., Miller, P. M., & Sharma, D. (1993, March). Cultures of childhood: Comparative studies of child care and early development. Paper presented at the 11th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read and symposium organized — Minami, M., Shaw, T., Michahelles, R., Chen, X., & Sing, R. (1992, February). Adapting to the American classroom: Problems and strategies of Asian high school students adapting to U.S. classrooms. Paper presented at the 10th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Invited paper read — Minami, M., & McCabe, A. (1991, November). Rice balls and bear hunts: Japanese and Caucasian family narrative patterns. Paper presented at the Reading and Language Seminars, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & McCabe, A. (1991, October). Rice balls versus bear hunts: Japanese and Caucasian family narrative patterns. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Paper read and symposium organized — Minami, M., Hemphill, L., Chance, J., & Leif, E. (1991, April). Two lenses on classroom discourse: The U.S. and Japan. Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read — Minami, M., & McCabe, A. (1990, October). Haiku as a discourse regulation mechanism: A stanza analysis of Japanese children's personal narratives. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. (ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, January, 1992, ED 335 961.)
Keynote paper read — Minami, M. (1990, August). U.S. education and Japanese education: A comparative study. Keynote invited paper presented to professors and graduate students from Hyogo University of Teacher Education Japan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Paper read and symposium organized — Minami, M., Cummings, W. K., Haiyan, H., Wegner, M. N., Hong, M., & Zhang, Y. (1989, December). Wisdom of Asia: To change or not to change. Paper presented at the 8th Annual International Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Invited paper read — Minami, M. (1989, November). Characteristics of Japanese education: A comparative perspective. Paper presented at the Office of International Education Speaker's Series, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.

Masahiko Minami

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Conference Presentations and Invited Lecture