About

Ayumi Nobuki is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese and teaches
Japanese language courses. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the
University of Kansas, with an emphasis on the first language acquisition of
Japanese.

Her research is focused on language acquisition. Taking psycholinguistic
approaches, Nobuki investigates how children and adult second language
learners will be able to comprehend semantic/pragmatic meaning of sentences
like adult native speakers. Her doctoral dissertation examined the
comprehension of the pragmatic meaning of sentences in Japanese-speaking
preschool- and school-age children. She has also conducted experiments on
how second language adult learners comprehend Japanese question sentences
with complex structures. With a background as a linguist and language instructor,
Nobuki aims to continue exploring the mechanism of language acquisition in
different populations and supporting the process of learners acquiring languages.

Having completed her undergraduate studies at the International Christian
University, a liberal arts college in Tokyo, Japan, she is thrilled to rejoin a similar
community as a faculty member.