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Yasuko Kanno, Associate Professor
TESOL Program, Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Education

Ritter Hall 462
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

phone/fax: (215) 204-7729 / (215) 204-1414
ykanno@temple.edu

Education

1996  Ph.D., Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
1991 MA, Linguistics, Keio University
1989 BA French, Keio University

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Immigrant English language learners' access to higher education
  • Language minority students' identities
  • Sociopolitical dimensions of bilingualism and bilingual education
  • Critical ethnography

Recent Scholarship

Books and Edited Volumes

Kanno, Y. (2008). Language and education in Japan: Unequal access to bilingualism. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Kanno, Y., & Norton, B. (Guest Editors). (2003). “Imagined communities and educational possibilities.” Special issue for the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2(4).

Kanno, Y. (2003). Negotiating bilingual and bicultural identities: Japanese returnees betwixt two worlds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Kanno, Y. (2006). Bilingual education in Japan: Unequal access to bilingualism. The Language Teacher, 30(7), 9-12.

Kanno, Y. (2003). Imagined communities, school visions, and the education of bilingual students in Japan. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2(4), 285-300.

Kanno, Y., & Norton, B. (2003). Imagined communities and educational possibilities: Introduction. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2(4), 241-249.

Kanno, Y. (2000). Bilingualism and identity: The stories of Japanese returnees. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 3(1), 1-18.

Kanno, Y., & Applebaum, S. D. (1995). ESL students speak up: Their stories of how we are doing. TESL Canada Journal, 12(2), 32-49.

Book Chapters

Kanno, Y. (2008). Transnationalism, imagined communities, and the education of language minority students in Japan, In J. Mori & A. S. Ohta (Eds.), Japanese Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum.

Kanno, Y. (2007). Language minority education in Japan. In A. Creese, P. Martin & N. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education, 2nd edition, volume 9: Ecology of language (pp. 237-248). New York: Springer.

Kanno, Y. (2007). ELT policy directions in Japan. In J. Cummins & C. Davison (Eds.), Handbook of English Language Teaching (pp. 63-73). New York: Springer.

Kanno, Y. (2004). Sending mixed messages: Language minority education at a Japanese public elementary school. In A. Pavlenko, & A. Blackledge (Eds.), Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts (pp. 316-338). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.