About Eriko Sato

Faculty

Faculty Website: Eriko Sato's website

Research Interest: watch Interview with Dr. Eriko Sato (video)

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MIC Related Research

My research interests include Japanese linguistics and pedagogy, second language acquisition, and translation studies. In particular, I am interested in the interface between linguistic theories and language education. The use of a language involves amazing complexities, regardless of whether they are structural, semantic, cognitive, socio-cultural, pragmatic, or developmental. Accordingly, the field of language education must be interdisciplinary.

The MIC Center provides us with an unlimited number of possible venues for collaborative research for languages, linguistics, pedagogy, and more. In our current globalized society, intercultural collaboration is a necessity and is advantageous. It allows us to view old problems differently, take advantage of global opportunities, and achieve breakthroughs. It strengthens us as individuals and as a community. The MIC Center provides language educators and researchers to reach out to any field that our lives are relevant to and collaboration is needed for, including healthcare, business administration, public service, education, science research, art, entertainment, and technology. The MIC Center is the much-needed interface between research on communication and our lives in a globalized society.