Maayan Barkan

Dr. Maayan Barkan is currently serving as the director of the Japanese Program at Hunter College (CUNY), where she has been teaching Japanese language courses since 2007. She has completed her doctorate in linguistics at the Graduate Center (CUNY) in May, 2018. Her research focuses on the role of Japanese pragmatics in second language acquisition. In addition to administrative, teaching, and scholarly work, she is a consultant to the Japanese Consulate in New York, serving as an interviewer for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. In May 2018, she gave a talk at the 24th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (PJPF). In October 2017, she Co-organized the symposium “Japanese Studies in the United States: A symposium in honor of Sue Kawashima” at Hunter College She received two Master’s degrees—one in Linguistics from the Graduate Center (CUNY), and the other in Japanese language education from the Osaka University of Foreign Languages in Japan. Originally from Israel, Ms. Barkan passed the Japanese Proficiency Test at the highest level in 2003. Additionally, she completed the Japanese language teachers’ training program at the Japan Society, where she has also taught privately and assisted with course development.

• Date of Birth: 10/03/75
• Nationality: Israeli

• 10/23/19, Received the ILE Grant for research project about Can-Do method
• 04/26/19, Received the 2018-2019 Hunter Travel Award
• 09/15/18, Received a travel award from The Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS)
• 06/14/18, Received the student-parent success award at CUNY Celebrating Students Success
• 04/02/15, Received the Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) at the Graduate Center
• 2001-2003, Graduate Scholarship, Japanese Ministry of Education
• 1998-1999, Japanese language and Culture’s Course Scholarship, Japanese Ministry of Education

• 10/28/17, Co-organized the symposium 'Japanese Studies in the United States: A symposium in honor of Sue Kawashima', Hunter College
• 10/28/17, Presented at the symposium 'Japanese Studies in the United States: A symposium in honor of Sue Kawashima', Pragmatic Strategies in Low- Versus High-Context Languages: A Comparison between Japanese and Hebrew
• 11/07/17, Gave a talk at the GC CUNY CIRCL, Main Clause Omission in High- and Low-Context Languages
• 05/12-13/18, Gave a talk at the 24th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (PJPF), The important Role of Pragmatic Strategies in L2 Japanese Teaching and Learning
• 06/08/18, Gave a talk at the Hunter College School of Education, TESOL Program, Japan and the Japanese Labeling relationships: The Japanese as Master Navigators
• 12/19/18, Gave a talk at Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS) 2018 conference, The Japanese Communication Style from a Western Perspective: A Linguistic Comparison between Japanese and Hebrew
• 06/09/19, Gave a talk at the 16th International Pragmatic Association Conference, Experimental Design: Methods For Investigating Main-Clause Omission in Japanese and Hebrew