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Dr Junko Iwasaki

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: j.iwasaki@ecu.edu.au

Junko is an Honorary Senior Lecturer within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Professional Associations

  • Member of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
  • Member of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA).

Awards and Recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2011 - Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award.

Research Areas and Interests

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and its Application to Teaching focusing on the following areas:

  • Second Language Acquisition, particularly Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language
  • Age Differences in SLA: Child and Adult Learners
  • Comparison between SLA and First Language Acquisition (FLA)
  • Processability Approaches to Language Learning.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2006.
  • Master of Education in Applied Linguistics, The University of Western Australia, 1997.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Kawaguchi, S., Iwasaki, J. (2023). Acquiring content questions in Japanese child second language. Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region (115–143). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.9.05kaw.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Kawaguchi, S., Iwasaki, J. (2021). Acquiring Content Questions in Japanese: The Case of a Sequential English-Japanese Bilingual Child. The International Journal of Early Childhood Learning, 28(1), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7939/CGP/v28i01/39-60.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Iwasaki, J., Oliver, R. (2018). Describing the acquisition of the passive voice by a child learner of Japanese as a second language from a Processability Theory perspective. International Journal Of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 7(5), 247-259. https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.5p.247.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Itani-Adams, Y., Iwasaki, J., Kawaguchi, S. (2017). Similarities and differences between simultaneous and successive bilingual children: Acquisition of Japanese morphology. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 6(7), 268-276. https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.7p.268.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Iwasaki, J., Itani-Adams, Y. (2015). The process and rate of acquisition by second language (L2) and bilingual first language (L1) child learners: A case study of Japanese morphology. Studies in Language Sciences: Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 14(Dec 2015), 30-58.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Iwasaki, J., Oliver, R. (2014). The acquisition of verbal morphology in Japanese as a second language (JSL) by a child: Emergence and accuracy. Studies in Language Sciences: the Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Science, 13(2014), 70-95.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Iwasaki, J. (2013). A Processability Theory (PT) -based Analysis of the Acquisition of Japanese Morphology and Syntax: a Case of an Intensive Adult Learner. Second Language, 12(Dec 2013), 21-42.

2008

Book Chapters

  • Iwasaki, J. (2008). Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language (JSL) in a Naturalistic Context: A Longitudinal Study of a Young Child from a Processability Theory (PT) Perspective. Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner (231-253). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2003

Journal Articles

  • Iwasaki, J., Oliver, R. (2003). Chat-Line interaction and negative feedback. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, S(17), 60-73.
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