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Mika Takewa is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the Modern Languages Centre, School of Languages, XJTLU. Before joining XJTLU in January 2022, Mika was in the UK Higher Education sector, teaching Japanese from beginners to advanced level students. She also taught translation to undergraduate advanced level students of Japanese as well as postgraduate trainee students of translation.Assisting students to develop their Japanese skills is a pleasure for her. She enjoys and welcomes questions from students about Japanese. They are interesting and eye opening both linguistically and cross-culturally, which offer opportunities for her to deepen or widen her understanding of Japanese as well as to improve teaching. In addition to Learning/Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, her interest includes Translation Studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics of Japanese and Contrastive Analysis of English and Japanese.She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Research interests
Contrastive Analysis of English and Japanese
Systemic Functional Linguistics of Japanese
News Discourse
Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
Translation Studies
Experience
Course Co-ordinator and Lecturer - Institute of International Education in London - Jan 1999 to Sep 2005
Co-ordinator of Japanese for Specific Purposes/Language Advisor - University of Bristol - Sep 2005 to Sep 2006
Lecturer in Japanese -University of Leeds - Sep 2006 to Dec 2021
Head of Japanese Division - XJTLU - Jan 2022 to present
Teaching
Continuing upport (S2, AY2021-22)
JPL003: Japanese Language 3
JPL002: Japanese Language 2
JPL001: Japanese Language 1
Education/Academic qualification
BA in Language and Area Studies, Osaka university of Foreign Studies - 1994
MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Sheffield - 1998
PhD in Translation Studies, University of Leeds - 2019
Person Types
- Staff
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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TDF: Flipped Language Learning: Student engagement and their academic achievement
Takewa, M., Miyairi, T., Yu, S. & Song, Y.
1/02/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Internal Research Project
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TDF: Developing a Corpus of Business Languages in Modern Langguages Centre (CLT, JPL, SPA) Phase 1
Takewa, M., Yang, F. & Jeaco, S.
Project: Internal Research Project
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反転学習における日本語A1学習者のエンゲージメントと学期末成績の相関性
Takewa, M., Miyairi, T., Yu, S. & Song, Y., 1 Sept 2024, In: BATJ Journal. p. 22-27 6 p.Translated title of the contribution :Hantengakushū-niokeru nihongo A1 gakushūsha-no engeejimento-to gakkimatsuseiseki-no sōkansei [Correlations between Japanese A1 learners' engagement in flipped learning and end-of-term grades Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article
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Student perceptions of the value of a final year Japanese translation module for professionalisation and employability
Takewa, M. & Ward, M., 2022, In: BATJ Journal. 23Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article
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What does /ələmɪn/ mean? Unpicking the challenges of connected speech for Japanese learners of English
Takewa, M. & Robinson, R., 2022, In: Speak Out!. 66Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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日本語教師のためのオンライン授業における法的注意点及びICTリテラシーの向上
Takewa, M., Furukawa, A., Casey, K., Darrah, E., Inagawa, M., Kitagawa, T., Koso-Kirk, R. & Narumi-Munro, F., 2022, In: BATJ Journal. 23Translated title of the contribution :Raising awareness of ICT literacy for Japanese language teachers in the UK Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article
Activities
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反転学習における日本語A1学習者のエンゲージメントと学期末成績の相関性 プロジェクト2年目に学習者アンケートとインタビューから見えてきたこと
Mika Takewa (Speaker), Yuchen Song (Speaker), Tomoko Miyairi (Speaker) & Shi Yu (Speaker)
30 Aug 2024 → 31 Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Correlations between A1 Japanese Learners' Engagement in Flipped Learning and End-of-term Grades: Findings from learner questionnaire and interviews in the second year of the project
Mika Takewa (Speaker), Yuchen Song (Speaker) & Tomoko Miyairi (Speaker)
30 Aug 2024 → 31 Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Developing a Corpus of Business Languages in Modern Languages Centre (CLT, JPL) – Phase 1
Fan Yang (Speaker), Mika Takewa (Speaker) & Stephen Jeaco (Speaker)
1 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Flipped Learning and Learner Autonomy - Analysis of Our Interview Data
Mika Takewa (Speaker), Tomoko Miyairi (Speaker), Shi Yu (Speaker) & Yuchen Song (Speaker)
1 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Correlations between Japanese A1 learners' engagement in flipped learning and end-of-term grades
Mika Takewa (Speaker), Tomoko Miyairi (Speaker) & Yuchen Song (Speaker)
1 Sept 2023 → 2 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar