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  • Dr SUGAI Hideaki (PhD, MA, BA)

    • Daily Used Post Title

      Associate Professor

    • Areas of Scholarship

      Task-based Learning and Teaching, Test-item Writing in Japanese , L2 Academic Composition

    • Education

      1996 PhD in Linguistics
      University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA, Dissertation title: A neural network application in Thai text-speech conversion program. (UMI: AAT 9700554)
      1991 MA in Linguistics
      California State University, Fresno, USA.
      1988 BA in Philosophy
      Yamagata University, Japan.

    • Work Experience

      Dec 2006-present Associate Professor, Department of English, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
      July 2000-Aug 2006 Researcher, Center for Research in Japanese as a Second Language, Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyuu-jo (National Institute for Japanese Language)
      Apr 2005- Aug 2006 Visiting Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
      Oct 2003-Mar 2005 Visiting Lecturer, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
      Apr 2004-Aug 2006 Lecturer (Part-time), Keisen University
      1997-2000 Programme Co-ordinator, Japanese Language, Continuing Education Centre, National University of Singapore
      Jul 1996-Jul 2000 Fellow, Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore
      Summer 1995-Fall 1995 Graduate Assistant, National Foreign Language Resource Center. Hawai’i
      Fall 1993-Fall 1994 Graduate Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
      Spring 1991 Instructor, California State University Fresno

    • Teaching

      • CBS5088 Communicating in Japanese in Multilingual Workplace
      • CBS5094 Japanese Spoken Analysis
      • CBS5090 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
      • CBS5070 Exploring Contemporary Japanese Society and Culture
      • CBS5075 Japanese for the Media
      • CBS5093 Advanced Strategies for Japanese Interaction
      • CBS5092 Teaching Japanese for Specific Purpose
      • CBS5096 Research Project for Applied Japanese Studies

    • Administrative Duties

      6-17 Aug Acting Head, ENGL
      Sem2 2008/09 Member, The Departmental Staffing Committee, ENGL
      Jan 2008-Aug 2008 Member, Faculty Board of Faculty of Communication
      Jan 2008-Aug 2008 Member, DRC /ENGL

    • Research Output (Selected)

      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2008. The transition in pedagogy and the development of teaching materials and textbook for the last 30 years-Focusing on CLT-. Nihon Gakkan, Hong Kong, vol. 12.
      • Sugai, Hideaki 2006. Rhetorical characteristics observed in L2 writing-focusing on paragraph division, In Tanaka, Mari. “What is good writing?” Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research, 209-220.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2006. What are the constructs of language competency that are measurable? In Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyuu-jo (ed.), Language Tests Around the World, Kuroshio Shuppan.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2005. The constructs of the Japanese language teaching competency listening examination from a testing perspective. In Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (JEES) (ed.), Fundamental research on the competency of Japanese language teachers determined on the basis of listening test items, 75-87
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2004. Rethinking the questionnaire research method. In The Questionnaire Research Method in the Modern Era. Special edition of the Japanese Linguistics Journal.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2003. Tasks for introducing inter-cultural education based on the policy of social integration. In Intercultural Communication Studies, 15, 1-16. Intercultural      Communication Institute, Kanda University of International Studies.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2003. The current state of large-scale standardized language tests and future trends. Soochow Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 18, 211-233. Soochow University, Taiwan.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 2000. The shift and loss of the meanings associated with deities—the case of a Chinese temple in Singapore, Studies in Comparative Culture, 44, 32-41. 1999. (Reprinted in Collection of Resources on China-related Topics, 41(1), 96-101. 2000)
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 1999. The current state of foreign students in high-level tertiary institutions in Singapore, Foreign Student Education, 4, 97-106.
      • Sugai, Hideaki. 1996. Classifying Sanskrit loan words and native Thai words by perceptron neural network learning. In Cynthia Reeves, Caroline Steele & Cathy S.P. Wong (eds.), Linguistics and Language Teaching: Proceedings, National Foreign Language Resource Center Technical Report 10, 77-90. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

      • Consultancy Work

        2004-present International Advisory Board Member, e-FLT journal (Electronic journal of Foreign Language Teaching, National University of Singapore)

      • Hobbies and Interests

        Music Composition, Guitar, Tai Chi Chuen, Business Law and Financial Planning