Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator National Foreign Language Resource Center Email: nflrc@hawaii.edu

EDUCATION

• M.A., English as a Second Language, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (1999)
  • Honors: Harry Whitten Prize for Scholarly Excellence (1999)
• B.A., English (minor in Japanese), University of California at Davis (1990)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development, coordination, and facilitation of NFLRC/SLTCC educational programs, professional development activities, and outreach (annual NFLRC Summer Institutes, SLTCC Teacher Portfolio & Preparation Series (TiPPS), SLTCC Teaching & Technology Workshop Series/Demos & Discussion Series, SLTCC Professional Development Series, and NFLRC exhibitor booths at various national conferences)
• Assistance in the writing, proofreading, and publication of our semesterly LLC Newsletter, annual reports, grant proposals, and project reports
• Coordination and supervision of NFLRC/SLTCC graduate & student assistants
• General office responsibilities (correspondence, planning, scheduling, records, databases, files)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Conference Chair, 4th Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF 2001)
• Associate Conference Chair, 2003 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference
• Vice President and Conference Chair (2003-04), ACTFL Delegate (2003-present), Newsletter Editor (2004-present), Hawai'i Association of Language Teachers (HALT)
• Program Organizer, Cultural Diversity and Language Education Conference (2004)
• Local Coordinator, 2006 Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Symposium
• Organizing Chair, 17th International Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference (2007)

BACKGROUND

I was born and raised in San Jose, California. After graduating from UC Davis, I taught English for 3 years at 4 junior high schools in Ichihara City (Chiba Prefecture), Japan, on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. During my graduate studies at the University of Hawai'i, I served as a graduate assistant on the third edition of Nelson's Japanese-English Character Dictionary and on the NFLRC performance-based assessment project, and for 2 years as a teacher (academic writing, listening/speaking) in the English Language Institute. I also served as an assessment specialist for the Manoa Writing Program for one year before starting work at the NFLRC.

INTERESTS

My professional interests include writing pedagogy (particularly ESL) and assessment, sociolinguistics (especially pragmatics), and qualitative research.

My personal interests include country-western line dancing (yeehaw!), acting (plays include Sukeroku: Flower of Edo, Seven Years!, Katipunan: The Cry for Freedom, Prayers & Seductions), theater, science fiction, cooking, composing and listening to music, creative writing, computers, ceramics, and geothermal geology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Yoshioka, J. (2004). 2004 NFLRC Conference: Cultural Diversity and Language Education (NFLRC Research Note #39). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
• Yoshioka, J. (2004). 2004 NFLRC Symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field (NFLRC NetWork #38). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
• Yoshioka, J. (2003). 2003 Workshop Evaluation: CLAN for Conversation Analysis (NFLRC Research Note #35). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
• Yoshioka, J. (2001). 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute Evaluation: Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-based Language Teaching (NFLRC Research Note #30). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center.
• Yoshioka, J. (1999). 1998 Writing Placement Exam: Manoa Writing Program (Tech. Rep. No. 16). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Manoa Writing Program.
• Norris, J. M., Brown, J. D., Hudson, T., & Yoshioka, J. (1998). Designing second language performance assessments. (Tech. Rep. No. 18). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center.
• Garman, K., Yoshioka, J., & Ko, S. (1997). Charlene J. Sato's impact on society and education in Hawai'i and beyond. University of Hawai'i Working Papers in ESL, 16(1), 19-26.