Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Web-based Materials for Self-study of the Kansai Dialect,” JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching) 2007 Proceedings. (In Japanese) In preparation.

• “Development of Web-Based Materials for Self-Study of the Kansai Dialect: Rationale and the Problems Encountered,” JALT Journal of Japanese Language Education, December 2007, Vol 6, No. 1, pp. 22-31. (In Japanese)

• “Identification and Characteristics of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Masai Fermented Milk in North Tanzania,” Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 58 (4), with Y. Isono and S. Shimizu, 1994, pp. 660-664.

Website

• “Kansai Dialect Self-Study Website for Japanese Language Learners,” http://llarc.mit.edu/ kansai/index.html

Other Publications

• 2007 “The Development of Web-Based Materials for Self-Studying the Kansai Dialect,” proceedings of 4th International CASTEL-J (Conference on Computer Assisted Systems for Teaching and Learning Japanese), CD-Rom.

• 1997 “The Code-Switching Dynamics in the Context of Standard Japanese and Kansai Dialect,” archives in Du Bois library at UMass, Amherst, as a microfilmed manuscript.