Introduction

[Cynthia Roy]

Dear Yasuhisa,

How delightful to hear from you; from people all over the world!  My book is
in press with Oxford University Press and will be ready this summer...I'll
keep your email address and send you a message when it's ready..

I just recently had a Japanese student in a graduate class who also works as
an interpreter here in New Orleans--her insights were wonderful...and
interesting..
I hope we can stay in touch,

Cynthia Roy

Yasuhisa Watanabe wrote:

> Dear Cynthia
>
> Could you supply with the reference of your publication mentioned in
> your message?
>
> While I am here, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Yasuhisa
> Watanabe, a Ph.D. student in Australia. (I was born in Japan but now
> live in Australia.) I have just finished my Masters thesis in
> acquisition of pragmatic and discourse skills of L2 Japanese learners.
> (I intend to publish this work after some revision in the near fuure, if
> anyone is interested.)
>
> I currently teach Japanese at Queensland Universiy of Technology in
> Brisbane. I also work as a translator (English-Japanese-Chinese) so your
> work interested me in a big way. It may be useful for my teaching of
> Japanese in the future.
>
> If there are any teachers of second languages, I would like to hear
> about your experiences in teaching discourse skills too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yasuhisa Watanabe
>
> >I am Cynthia Roy, PhD in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown; currently at
> >the University of New Orleans in the English Department where I teach
> >linguistics courses and writing courses.  I am also the Director of the
> >Greater New Orleans Writing Project of the National Writing Project, a
> >national, educational reform movement to improve student writing and
> the
> >teaching of writing in the nation's schools.
> >
> >My focus in my dissertation was looking at an interpreter's role in the
> >discourse exchange between two people who do not speak the same
> >language.  My specialization in sociolinguistics is discourse analysis
> >and I am fortunate to have had Deborah Tannen as a mentor.  I am
> >interested in interpreting between languages and have, in press, a book
> >called Interpreting as a Discourse Process.  I also write about
> teaching
> >interpreting as a discourse process.
>
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