Yoshiko Fujii Gaines

Research/Teaching Interests

• Career exploration through language learning and business case studies
• Language, culture, and society through Japanese films
• Critical Content-Based Instruction on sustainable society
• Experiential Learning:
  • Baylor in Japan Summer Program (JPN2320, JPN3307)
  • Japan Urban Food Projects Mission Trip
• Peace Project
• Student organization advising: 
  • Japanese Honor Society College Chapter at Baylor University
  • Baylor Kendo Club
  • BearBallet

Education

MA, Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University

BA, English, Dokkyo University (Japan)

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Introductory Japanese (JPN1301)
• Elementary Japanese (JPN1302)
• Intermediate Japanese (JPN2310 )
• Exploring Japan (JPN2320)
• Japanese for the Professions (JPN3305)
• Japanese Cinema (JPN3306)
• Topics in Japanese Society (JPN3307)
• Special Topics in Japanese (JPN3V70 & JPN4V90)

Honors and Awards

Texas Foreign Language Association Japanese Teacher of the Year College Level, 2016

Selected Publications

“Re-classifying Suffixes –sa and –mi for Nominalizing Adjectives from the Cognitive Perspective,” The Fifteenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2008.

Professional Membership

• American Association of Teachers of Japanese
• Texas Foreign Language Association