MGJmembers




	The research team invites students and scholars working in he area of genre and functional linguistics to join the team. If you are interested, please write to Elizabeth Thomson, with a description of your work.

Members and Collaborators
University of Wollongong
	Dr. Elizabeth Thomson, Cordinator Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages, Faculty of Arts University of Wollongong	The storytelling genres of folktales and narratives; hard and soft news stories; & The factual genres of directives, exposition, reports	Dr. Elizabeth Thomson teaches English and Japanese Linguistics in the School of English Literatures , Philosophy and Languages. During her time at the University of Wollongong , she has engaged in the development of the Japanese Language major and also was instrumental in the development and implementation of a new major in Linguistics, producing a CD-ROM on academic English as part of the program. The CD-ROM was the winner in the 2001 Australian Tertiary Technology Showcase Category. In 2002, she received her Ph.d in Linguistics, entitled Exploring the Textual Metafunction in Japanese: A case study of selected written texts, which was a systemic functional description of the ‘organising’ grammar of Japanese above the clause. In 2003, Dr. Thomson received the Vice-chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (Arts). Dr. Thomson's research interest is in the area of theoretical systemic functional descriptions of Japanese in both the workplace and educational contexts.
	Motoki Sano Research Assistant, Web coordinator of MGJ Ph.D student Faculty of Arts University of Wollongong	Genre of Persuasion/ Exposition	Motoki Sano is a Ph.D candidate at University of Wollongong . His research interest lies primarily in Japanese language description from a Systemic Functional perspective, especially in the discourse of rhetoric, persuasion and evaluation. Other areas of interests include language and culture, and language in mass media. He has been involved in the projects Mapping genres of Japanese genres, which aims to describe various genres of Japanese and the News Projects that explores representation of ideology in various culture.
	Yumiko Mizusawa Ph.D. Candidate Faculty of Arts University of Wollongong M.Ed. TESOL (UoW) BA linguistics ( Keio University in Japan )	Genre of Directives	Yumiko is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Wollongong . Her research interest is office language use in Japanese and English especially in Directives. Other areas of her interests are cross-cultural differences and second and language acquisition.
	Yuki Oe Master by research student. Japanese lecturer and tutor in the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong	Genre of Persuasion/ Exposition	Yuki Oe is doing a Master by research and is a part-time lecturer/tutor in Japanese at the University of Wollongong . She has taught Japanese using the direct-method in Japan to non-Japanese speaking trainees, and came to Australia in 2000. She graduated with a Diploma in Education at the University of Wollongong majoring in Japanese and ESL teaching, and has taught Japanese from Yr 5 to Yr12 students. Her research is driven by a keen interest in producing effective teaching materials for non-Japanese speaking students for them to be ale to write appropriate persuasive/exposition texts. In order to achieve this purpose, she will start analysing the HSC written papers by Systemic Functional approaches to identify the liexicogrammatical choices, generic stages and the particular language features of each stage. She is a member of the project, which is “Mapping genres of Japanese genres”.
n/a	Yuko Ramzan	application	Yuko Ramzan has taught Japanese language in primary, secondary schools and the tertiary sector, also gaining experience in adult education such as the Workers’ Education Association and the Labor Market Program at Technical and Further Education in NSW. Her teaching experience was extended to the Japanese immersion program during year 2000. Areas of research interest include applying genre approach to the language teaching and curriculum development and exploring intercultural development. She has completed Master of Arts, major in Cultural Studies, and Master of Education, major in TESOL. She is currently undertaking a doctoral study.
Meijo University
	Chie Hayakawa Part-time Instructor Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University Faculty of Life System Science and Technology, Chukyo University School of Art, Nagoya University of Arts	Genres of Recount, Description, Report, and Explanation	Chie Hayakawa obtained a Ph.D at the Department of Linguistic Functions, Graduate School of Tohoku University. She is now teaching English as a part-time instructor at several Universities in Japan . Her research interest lies primarily in the comparative description of Japanese and English texts from a Systemic Functional perspective, especially in the discourse of science, educational texts including textbooks and classroom writings, with the aim of applying her research to the teaching English to Japanese students. Other areas of interests include the analysis of the texts of specialized areas (including natural science, literature and fine arts) and specialized literacy.
Aichi Gakuin University
	Masamichi Washitake Lecturer Department of English Communication Junior College Division of Aichi-gakuin University	Narrative, News story	Masamichi Washitake is a full-time lecturer at Aichi-gakuin University , Japan . His main interestｓ of research are language and society, especially ideology in text and study on verbal art (of Japanese language). He has studied genres of Narrative (English) and News Story (Japanese) from the view point of Systemic Functional Theory. Another area of interest (other than linguistics) is Judo. He instructs it at his university as a master; he is what is called “SFT linguist/ Judo wrestler”.
Tohoku University
	Kinuko Suto Ph.D. Candidate Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Department of Linguistic Functions, Tohoku University , Japan	Genres of Persuasion (e.g., Reports, Expositions, Advertisements, Narratives)	Kinuko Suto is a Ph.D. candidate of the Department of Linguistic Functions, Graduate School of Tohoku University. Using Systemic Functional Theory, she is researching English and Japanese linguistic resources of persuasive genres. The analytical data includes political manifestos, academic texts, newspaper editorials, magazine ads, and narratives. Her research purpose is to describe and evaluate functional structures and lexicogrammatical resources found in these texts, thus exploring the continuity and discrepancy of various genres aimed at persuading the fulfilling of a macro-proposal.
University of Sydney
	Ken Tann Lecturer Faculty of Education, University of Technology , Sydney Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney	Genre of Nihonjinron/ culturalist self-narratives	Ken Tann is a PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department, University of Sydney , working on the role of language in the collaborative construction of Japanese national and cultural identity. He focuses mainly on political discourses, and his research interests revolves around Systemic Functional Linguistics, Positive Discourse Analysis, as well as the comparative analysis on rhetoric and persuasive strategies in English and Japanese speech communities from an ethnographic perspective. Graduating with the school medal in Linguistics and Japanese studies, he has presented papers in both fields, and is currently teaching linguistics at the University of Technology , Sydney .
Gakugei University
n/a	Wendy Bowcher
University of New South Wales
n/a	Nagisa Fukui