Eriko Sato is Lecturer of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and Executive Director of the Japan Center and Pre-College Japanese Language Program at SUNY-Stony Brook. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from SUNY-Stony Brook in 1996 and has presented and published many articles on semantics, syntax, phonology, morphology, and pedagogy in Journal of Language and Linguistics, Japanese Language and Literature, and CAJLE Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy.She has been teaching Japanese at Stony Brook since 1997 and has authored Contemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students --Vol.1, Vol.2, and Teacher's Guide (Tuttle Publishing 2005), Japanese Phrases for Dummies (Wiley Publishing 2004), and Japanese for Dummies (Hungry Minds 2002). Her current research interests include contrastive analysis, pragmatics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistic, and principles of translation, and she is particularly interested in creating an interface between linguistics and foreign language education.
