Staff within the Centre for Modern Languages

Professor John Klapper
BA (Birmingham); PGCE, MLitt (Oxford); PhD (Birmingham)

Subject Specialisation: Applied Linguistics; Teaching Methodology, Teacher education/training (Director, CML)

Ms Miyoko Yamashita
BA; Teaching Certificate (Hosei); MA (Surrey)

Subject Specialisation: Applied Linguistics; Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Head of Oriental Languages)

Ms Junko Ogawa
BA; Teaching Certificate; MA (International Christian University)

Subject Specialisation: TESOL, Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

Mr Fumitsugu Enokida
B Com Sci; Teaching Certificate (Jobu); MA (Birmingham) on going

Subject Specialization: Applied Linguistics

Ms Hiroko Freebody (part-time)
BA (Kinnan)

Subject Specialisation: Japanese Language

Mr Yoshihito Kamakura (part-time)
BA (Nanzan); MA (Nagoya); MPhil, PhD on going (Birmingham)

Subject Specialisation: Corpus Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Other part-time staff are employed as necessary.

Library and Information Resources

Zbig Gas is the Library contact for Humanities

Tel: 0121 415 8097
E-mail: Z.Gas@bham.ac.uk

Birmingham has about 2,200 Japan-related books in English and a small number in Japanese; it also subscribes to 140 Japan-related journals in English. All resources are catalogued on an in-house computerised system. There is an agreement to share catalogue data with the Consortium of University Research Libraries. The average annual expenditure on Japan-related resources since 2000 is about £1,700.