Education
B.A. in Linguistics, minors in French and music, with honors, 1985
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Thesis: Translation and Creation (Lecture-recital and thesis)
Work
Associate Professor (2002 to present)
Department of Foreign Language Studies
Kumamoto Gakuen University
Kumamoto, JAPAN
Foreign Lecturer (1995-1998)
Institute of Language and Culture Studies
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, JAPAN
Publications
Tomei, Joseph. (2007) Avoiding the bleeding edge of Wikis. (coauthored with R. S. Lavin). Essential Teacher, TESOL.
____(2006) Wikis in EFL: an evaluation. (coauthored with R. S. Lavin). Language Issues, Vol. 12, No. 1.
____(2004) Personal Corpora Learning: A beginning. Kumamoto Gakuen Daigaku Bungaku Gengogaku Ronshu 10:2/11:1, 103-122.
____(2001)An Interview with Nguyen thi Hoai An and Naoko Aoki. Explorations in Teacher Education. Volume 9, Number 2
____(2001) Using English Accent Examplars from Film in an English Phonetics and Advanced Pronunciation Class. Kumamoto Gakuen Daigaku Bungaku Gengogaku Ronshu 8:2, 61-77.
____(2001) Best of Both Worlds: Autonomy as an amalgam. Proceedings of the College and University Educators Special Interest Group (JALT) conference on Learner Autonomy. pp.
____(2001) Project Work in the University Classroom: A guide for the non-native teacher. Proceedings of the 2001 Hokkaido JALT Annual conference. pp. 73-79.
____(2001) A review of The practice of English Language Teaching (3rd edition). by Jeremy Harmer. in JALT Journal
____(1998) Video as a source for content for testing discussion skills. The Language Teacher. Special issue on Video and Language Teaching. 22:
____(1998) Evaluating Oral Proficiency: The Hokudai Oral Proficiency Test. The Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. 3, 162-166. 10,
____(1998) Towards a definition of 'error'. in Gaikokugo Kenkyuu no Senmonsei. . Ed. by Yasushi Kawai. Hokkaido University.
____(1998) A report on the last day of the 32nd annual Salish and neighboring languages conference. Foundation for Endangered Languages Newsletter #6.
____(1997) How does on give an F to the ineffable? Evaluating translations. Language and Culture. 32: 109-131.
____(1997) The hidden meaning of prepositions: at, in, and on. Northern Review. 25: 45-61.
____(1997) Image based test items: a rationale. Language and Culture. 31: 109-131.
____(1996) What's up? Functional/Typological Grammar and the teaching of English as a foreign language. Northern Review. 24: 55-70.
____ (1996) Classroom Management in the Japanese Classroom. The Language Teacher. 20: 6 19-21.
____ (1996) Job Fairness: A Global Perspective. The Language Teacher. 20: 7 25.
____(1995) The Practice of Preservation: Views from Linguists working with Language Renewal. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 115: 173-182.
Co-authored
with Lavin, Richard, and Beaufait, Paul. (2008) Tools for Online Engagement and Communication. Chapter 25 in Sandy Hirtz & Dr. David G. Harper (Eds.), Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, pp. 381-412.
with Lavin, Richard, and Beaufait, Paul. (2008) Online Collaboration: An Overview. Chapter 28 in Sandy Hirtz & Dr. David G. Harper (Eds.), Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, pp. 441-460.
with Lavin, Richard, and Beaufait, Paul. (2008) Identity in Online Education. Chapter 29 in Sandy Hirtz & Dr. David G. Harper (Eds.), Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, pp. pp. 461-474.
with Glick, Christopher, and Holst, M. (1999) Project Work in the University Classroom. The Language Teacher.
with Glick, Christopher, and Holst, Mark. (1998) Project Work for Select Faculties. Language and Culture. 34: 41-53.
with Nishihori, Yuri. (1998) Minding the Gap. Gengobunkabu Kenkyu Hokoku sosha: Hokkaido University.
with Glick, C. and Holst, M. (1998) Large Scale oral testing made possible. Proceedings of the 1997 Hokkaido JALT conference. pp 25-32.
with Glick, C. and Holst, M. (1998) Project Work in the University Classroom. Proceedings of the 1997 Hokkaido JALT conference. pp. 19-24.
with Glick, C. and Holst, M. (1998) English Communication Skills for Japanese Medical Students: A Course Description. Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. 4, 40-44.
with Brown, C., Glick, C., Holst, M., Stapleton, P. (1995) Interview testing for oral proficiency: a pilot test for the Hokudai Oral Proficiency Test (HOPT). The Journal of Language and Culture Studies, 30(1), 219-238.
Presentations
Incorporating Projects (and lots of other things) into English Classes. Oct 19, 2002, Miyazaki Chapter.
Project Work for the University-Based Classroom. Sep 8, 2001, Kitakyushu JALT Chapter.
Project Work in the University Classroom. presented at JALT98 conference, Omiya, Japan (with Christopher Glick, and Mark Holst) November 23, 1998.
"A Possible Origin to the Causative in Nez Perce and Sahaptin" Presented at the Symposium on Endangered languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto University.
"The hidden meaning of language" Presented at the Summer Colloquium for teachers, Sapporo University. August 13, 1997.
"Project Work in the University Classroom" Presented at Hokkaido JALT conference(with Cindy Brown, Christopher Glick, and Mark Holst. May 1997.
"The Silent language" Presented as part of Institute of Language and Culture Studies Open lecture series, Hokkaido University. July 1997.
"An introduction to the verb morphology of Klamath, Sahaptin and Nez Perce" Presented as the 82nd Hokudai Linguistics circle talk. January 30, 1997.
"Functional Typological Linguistics and its application to English teaching" Presented at the 42nd annual Eigo Gakkai, Hokkaido University. October 15, 1996.
Courses currently taught
Professional Memberships