Education:

Ph.D. in Linguistics (1981, University of Washington)
MA in TESL (1976, Northern Arizona University)
BA in Literature (1973, Waseda University)

Professional Career:

1981-82 Department of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow)

1982-88 Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Assistant Professor)

　　　(1986-87 Department of Linguistics, Southern California (Visitor))

1988-91 Department of Literature, Kobe Shoin Women’s University (Associate Professor)

1991-95 School of Humanities,Tokyo Metropolitan University (Associate Professor)

1995- present Graduate School of Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies (Professor)

　　　(2001-12) Center for Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies (Director)

　　　(2004-05) Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT (Visiting Scholar)

　　　(2008-2010) Graduate School of Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies (Chair)

　　　(2009-present) Center for Teaching Eglish to Children, Kanda University of International Studies (Advisor)

　　　(2012-present) Center for Foreign Language Proficiency, Kanda University of International Studies (Director)