{"id":4092,"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:39:04","slug":"agata-koichiro-professor-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/faculty-en\/2026\/09\/01\/4092\/","title":{"rendered":"TSAI Aurora, Associate Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amtsai.pages.dev\/\">Personal Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Courses Offered<\/li>\n<li>Researchers Database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4103 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-360x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-610x457.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-940x704.png 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956-720x540.png 720w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d940a1b47fec44213b19ac6a276be956.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Critical applied linguistics, raciolinguistics, identity, language and emotion, decoloniality in language education<\/p>\n<h3>Academic Degrees<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MA, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai`i at M\u0101noa<\/li>\n<li>PhD, Second Language Acquisition, Carnegie Mellon University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Short Bio<\/h3>\n<p>I completed an MA in second language studies at the University of Hawaii and a PhD in second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, where my dissertation focused on fostering higher order thinking skills in second language reading. Upon completing graduate school in the U.S., I worked as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology teaching Japanese language courses and then worked as a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo for six years teaching courses in academic English and applied linguistics.<br \/>\nAs a mixed-heritage Asian American who grew up on the east coast of the U.S., I became increasingly interested in the intersections of language, race, and identity, particularly during the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. Currently, my research focuses on ways to help individuals question, dismantle, and unlearn racial and linguistic (raciolinguistic) ideologies that produce feelings of shame toward heritage and second-language abilities. Please see my personal website for more details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fpse\/pse\/en\/about\/faculty\/\">Back to the List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Website Courses Offered Researchers Database Research Interests Critical applied linguistics, racioli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en","research_field-foreign_languages-en","research_field-linguistics-en","research_field-humanities-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}