Mari Noda's guest appearances

Mari Noda

Voices of Excellence from Arts and Sciences

Alexander Hamilton

Andrew Martin

John Stuart Mill

Richard Petty

Greg Anderson

Jim Fowler

Robert Baker

Harvey Miller

Michael White

Heather Allen

Michael Slater

Tom Hawkins

Kevin Richards

Ann Hamilton

Linda Mizejewski

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Mari Noda, professor in Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, is a specialist in East Asian language pedagogy and is primarily interested in curriculum, material development, and assessment. She seeks to help students not only understand a language but to use that language as a mechanism to participate in the culture. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Mari Noda: Learning a new language is performing as a believable, intelligent person in a culture