{"id":7315,"date":"2025-07-01T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/ayumi-nobuki\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:09:55","slug":"ayumi-nobuki","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/ayumi-nobuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayumi Nobuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayumi Nobuki is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese and teaches<br \/>\nJapanese language courses. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the<br \/>\nUniversity of Kansas, with an emphasis on the first language acquisition of<br \/>\nJapanese.<\/p>\n<p>Her research is focused on language acquisition. Taking psycholinguistic<br \/>\napproaches, Nobuki investigates how children and adult second language<br \/>\nlearners will be able to comprehend semantic\/pragmatic meaning of sentences<br \/>\nlike adult native speakers. Her doctoral dissertation examined the<br \/>\ncomprehension of the pragmatic meaning of sentences in Japanese-speaking<br \/>\npreschool- and school-age children. She has also conducted experiments on<br \/>\nhow second language adult learners comprehend Japanese question sentences<br \/>\nwith complex structures. With a background as a linguist and language instructor,<br \/>\nNobuki aims to continue exploring the mechanism of language acquisition in<br \/>\ndifferent populations and supporting the process of learners acquiring languages.<\/p>\n<p>Having completed her undergraduate studies at the International Christian<br \/>\nUniversity, a liberal arts college in Tokyo, Japan, she is thrilled to rejoin a similar<br \/>\ncommunity as a faculty member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1891,"featured_media":7525,"template":"","class_list":["post-7315","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7315\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}