Tomoko Hoogenboom
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
(507) 786-3717
hoogenbo@stolaf.edu
Tomoko completed her master’s and Ph.D. degree in Japanese (major) and Linguistics (minor) at the University of Minnesota. Prior to her graduate work, she received a BA in English and American Literature at Tsurumi University in Japan.
Tomoko has taught all levels of Japanese language at various colleges and universities in Minnesota. She taught Japanese language at St. Olaf in 2001 and returned to teach language and Japanese linguistics courses in 2008.
Tomoko’s specialties are Japanese language and culture, bilingual language acquisition and second language acquisition. She is also interested in repetition in conversation, multilingual and multicultural identities, language lost in bilingual senior people, and oral language versus textual language. Tomoko presented a part of her Ph.D. work, entitled “Bilingual and monolingual Japanese children’s utterance direction; functions of repetition of utterances addressed to a third person” at the International Pragmatics Conference in Sweden in July 2007.
