Kkamano <kkamano@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Kkamano (kkamano@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Fri, 13 Oct 95 22:27:25 JST
13 October 1995
I am a Japanese psychologist who is studing the problems
of language development and education of children including
both normal (preschool and school) children and developmental
handicapped ones from the point view of Vygotsky school.
For twenty years I worked at the National Research Institutes
such as the National Language Research Institute and National
Institute for Educational Research and now I am working at the
Department of Education of Chuo University, Tokyo, as professor
of psychology.
One of my research themesttis the processes of acquisition of
literacyttby children, especially I has been concerned for long
time with thett problem of acquisition of Hiragana(Japanese
syllabic letters) by preschool children and subnormal children
(mentally retarded and with learning disabilities). In 1991-94
I conducted a three year longitudinal study on acquisition of
reading in Hiragana by 3-4 years old children.
My second subject of research is the acquisition of syntax
by children. After the project of language(syntax) training
experiment with MR children for about 15 years, I am now
returning back to the work of analyzing utterances of normal
children of two-three years of age using a computer.
As the social request is so high, I am still continuing the
project of development of teaching programs of literacy for
LD children, conducting experimental training together with
students to three LD school children using complex language
teaching programs in the observation room of our University.
While I was working at the Institute for Educational
Research, I could participate actively in the discussion in
Xact, but for these 3-4 years after moving into University,
I could hardly find out time to do. But I am going to endeavor
to be an active participant in the discussion of MCA.
With best regards,
Kiyoshi Amano,
Department of Education
Chuo University, Hachiouji-shi, Tokyo,
192-03, Japan