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Keisuke Honda is a Research Assistant in Multilingualism in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) at Dublin City University, Ireland. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and specialises in the linguistic and pedagogical aspects of the Japanese writing system. Keisuke teaches Japanese as a foreign language in the Language and Culture Programme as part of the DCU Futures project.
Keisuke's expertise is in grapholinguistics, the linguistic study of scripts and writing systems. He has published and presented widely on the linguistic aspects of the Japanese writing system as well as the contrastive analysis of Japanese and other typologically related writing systems. He is an active contributor and reviewer for the journal Association for Written Language and Literacy. He is also currently serving as a programme committee member for the Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference.
Japanese language education also occupies a central place in Keisuke's academic career. Before coming to DCU in 2022, he worked in UK higher education for 10 years, teaching the language at Oxford Brookes University, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford. In recognition of his engaging teaching, he was nominated for a Student Academic Choice Award by the Imperial College Students Union in 2019 and was presented with an Oxford University Recognition Award in 2022.
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