STAFF PROFILE
Mrs Hiroko Ohashi
Position:
Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399253975
Email:
hiroko.ohashi@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Hiroko Ohashi is Coordinator of Japanese Studies and a Lecturer in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
Research interest
- Discourse analysis for language teaching
- Application of pragmatics to language learning
- Intercultural communication and language teaching
- Developing personal attributes through language learning
- Second language acquisition
Grants
- 2011 Short-Term Student Exchange Promotion Program scholarship for the RMIT Japan Study Tour from Japan Student Services Organization
- 2010 Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program Strategic Collaboration and Partnership Fund – Round Two: the “Tertiary-Secondary Partnership for Innovative Language Teaching/ Learning Pathways” project 2010-2012
- 2009 RMIT TAFE Transition Initiatives, project title: The Development of Generic Skills within the Certificate in Language (Japanese) RMIT Languages Resource Development
Awards
- 2010 Teaching Excellence Award – School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
- 2009 Teaching Excellence Award – School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
- 2009 RMIT Teaching Awards – TAFE Outstanding Teacher category (teaching team application), Certificate of Achievement for provision of quality learning and teaching opportunities through a cohesive team approach, which fosters student engagement in Japanese and Chinese language learning through diverse industry and community links
- Coordinator, Japanese Studies
- Lecturer, Japanese Language courses
- Coordinating International Exchange programs with RMIT’s partner universities
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, RMIT University, 2005 and 2011
- Full registration, Victorian Institute of Teaching, 2004
- Master of Science in Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh, 1995
- Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, The University of Stirling 1990
Industry experience
- Director, Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Victoria Test Center (2012- )
- Committee member of Japanese Language Speech Contest, Victoria Final (2012- )
- Japanese Program leader, the 'Tertiary-Secondary Partnership for Innovative Language Teaching/ Learning Pathways' project. This project was part of the 2010–2012 Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program Strategic Collaboration and Partnership Fund – Round Two 2010
- Reviewer for the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (2002)
- Examiner for Cambridge Certificate in Japanese and Japanese Studies (1992-1993) (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate International Examinations)
Professional interests and memberships
- RMIT Language Program Advisory Committee (PAC)
- Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Victoria (MLTAV)
- Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of Victoria
- Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)
- Oceanian Education Studies
- Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2021). Learning Asian languages is about much more than trade and employability and universities should convey this In: Melbourne Asia Review, 26, 1 - 1
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2021). Promotional texts of Asian languages on Australian university websites: A case study of Japanese and Chinese studies. In: Journal of Oceanian Education Studies, 27, 45 - 61
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2020). Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning In: New Frontiers in Japanese Studies, Routledge, United Kingdom
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2020). An adjacency pair, 'Request - acceptance' and multiple functions of the desu/masu forms emerging in small talk: Using natural conversational data in Japanese language teaching In: Natural Conversation analysis in Japanese: Elucidating human communication through the BTSJ Natural Conversation Corpus., Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo, Japan
- Ohashi, H. (2020). Study Tours in Australia- an educational resource at the hosting university In: Journal of Oceanian Education Studies, 17, 37 - 54
- Ohashi, H.,Ohashi, J. (2017). Aiming for language education beyond language acquisition: Japanese and English language immersion camp in Australia In: Journal for Japanese Studies, , 19 - 36
- Ohashi, H.,Ohashi, J. (2016). Comparative Study of the Discourse of University Rankings in Japan and Australia In: Journal of Oceanian Education Studies, 22, 56 - 75
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2015). Transcending the role of Japanese language education In: Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan, Routledge, United States
- Ohashi, H.,Ohashi, J. (2013). 'Rashisa' no goyouronteki kousatsu: Denshi keijiban ni miekakuresuru tamamushiiro no shakaikihan (A pragmatic analysis of - fuzzy social norms which emerge online discussion boards) In: Disukosu ni okeru rashisa no hyosho, Osaka Municipal Universities Press, Sakai, Japan
- Ohashi, J.,Ohashi, H. (2012). Humanistic dimensions in Japanese language education in Australia In: The Next Step: Introducing the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities. Selected Proceedings of the Inaugural LCNAU Colloquium 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 September 2011