Eriko Sato

Provost's Outstanding Lecturer

Eriko Sato received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stony Brook University in 1996. Her research interests include Japanese linguistics and pedagogy, translation studies, and second language acquisition. In addition to several journal articles in these research areas, Sato published or co-published a number of Japanese textbooks and grammar/kanji reference books. From 2007 to 2010, Sato served as a co-PI for the project “Initial Certification in the Teaching of Asian Languages” supported by the U. S. Department of Education ($171,000), and played an important role for establishing teacher certification programs for Chinese and Japanese at Stony Brook. While teaching Japanese language, linguistics, and pedagogy courses, Sato coordinates Asian Language Teacher Education Programs and serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee for the Japan Center at Stony Brook and the Director of the Pre-College Japanese Program. 

Books:

Complete Japanese Grammar (McGraw Hills, To be published in 2013)

Basic Japanese (McGraw Hills, To be published in 2013)

Essential Japanese Grammar 

(Tuttle Publishing, 2012) Co-Authored with Masahiro Tanimori 

Basic Japanese: Introduction of the Structure of Japanese 

(Tuttle Publishing, 2012) Co-Authored with Samuel E. Martin

Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students (Tuttle):

Textbook 1 (2005) 

Textbook 2 (2005)

Teacher's guide (2005)

Workbook 1 (2007)

Workbook 2 (2007) 

My First Japanese Kanji Book (Tuttle, 2009)

co-authored with Anna Sato, illustrated by Anna Sato

The First 100 Japanese Kanji (Tuttle, 2008) 

The Second 100 Japanese Kanji (Tuttle, 2009)

co-authored with Tuttle editors 

Japanese Demystified 2nd Ed. (McGraw-Hill, To be published in Jan. 2013)

Japanese Demystified 1st Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008)

Japanese for Dummies 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2012) 

Japanese for Dummies 1st Edition (Wiley, 2002)

Japanese for Dummies Audio Set (Wiley, 2009)

Japanese Phrases for Dummies (Wiley, 2004)

Basic Japanese for Dummies Dictionary (Wiley, 2010)

* Translated to French, German, and Dutch. To be translated to Spanish.