Rate My Professor Kiyomi Yamada

Dr. Kiyomi Yamada is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England, within the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. She holds additional roles as Exchanges Coordinator and Convenor of Asian Languages. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Keio University, a Graduate Diploma in Education (Japanese and ESL) and a Master of Education (TESOL) from the University of New England, and a PhD in Japanese applied linguistics from Monash University. Before joining the Discipline of Japanese at UNE, Yamada taught Japanese and ESL/EFL at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia and Japan and worked as a freelance English-Japanese translator for various companies, including a publisher in Tokyo.

At UNE, she has developed and taught Japanese language, sociolinguistic, and cultural units at 200-500 levels and supervised international PhD candidates to completion. She coordinates the Japanese exchange program with partner universities in Japan: Daito Bunka, Kanazawa, Chubu, Doshisha, and Kagoshima Universities, serving as the primary contact. Yamada's research specializations encompass first and second language socialisation, second language acquisition, and discourse analysis. Notable publications include "Undergraduate thesis supervisory conference: Academic discourse socialisation multiple-case study" (Linguistics and Education, 2022), "Cross-disciplinary variations: Japanese novice writers' socialization into the undergraduate thesis" (The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016), "Group supervision and Japanese students' successful completion of undergraduate theses" (Education Research and Perspectives, 2013), "Discipline-specific writing: an examination of Japanese students' undergraduate theses" (The Internet Journal of Language, Culture and Society, 2013), and "The supervisory conference: academic socialisation and the thesis genre" in Making a Difference: Challenges for Applied Linguistics (2009). She has delivered conference papers on supervisory interactions, thesis genres, and language socialization.