The Language House's instructors are native Japanese with extensive teaching experience at university or high school levels. All insteructors have master's degrees in Linguistics, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) or related field.
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Ms. Mayumi Nishida, the founder of Language House, has extensive experience in Japanese language education. Ms. Nishida was the Senior Instructor at the Japan Society Language Center for ten years, where she originated and developed several courses for advanced students and teachers training courses. She has also taught Japanese at Columbia University, Baruch College of the City University of New York and the Japan Foundation New York Office. In addition, she has provided private and group instruction to executives and professionals of Citibank, the New York Times, Rockefeller & Co., JP Morgan and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, among others. Ms. Nishida holds her dual master's degrees (M.A. and M.Ed.) in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from Columbia University. |
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Ms. Mariko Aratani received her M.A in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ms. Aratani has extensive experiences in teaching Japanese at various levels, middle school through college as well as private students. In addition to the current work at Language House, she has been an adjunct professor in Japanese at Fordham University and Pace University. She previously taught at Madison Country Day School where she developed a Japanese course for middle and high schools. Ms. Aratani is interested in eclectic teaching methods in order to accommodate different learning styles of students as well as to make lessons as clear and enjoyable as possible. |
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Ms. Kazue Kurahara received her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and TESOL from New York University, and holds teaching certificates in both Japanese and English as a Second Language from New York State. Ms. Kurahara currently teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced Japanese courses at Hunter College, the City University of New York and Pace University. Previously she has taught Japanese at Horace Mann High School and the United Nations International School. She is well versed in the latest methodologies, and is constantly exploring various approaches to make her lessons clear, practical and fun. Ms. Kurahara also worked for many years as part of educational non-profit organization based in Japan.
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Ms. Sae Okihara has taught Japanese at several institutions in the U.S., including the East Asian Study Department of New York University and Individual U., an educational institution in Manhattan that provides special education for children with language disabilities. Ms. Okihara is an expert at teaching Japanese to young students between the ages of six and eighteen, developing various innovative approaches using audio-visual teaching materials. She has also been providing individual and small-group Japanese instruction to executives and professionals at Oppenheimer Capital, Cantillon Capital Management and Marubeni America Corporation. Ms. Okihara received her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and TESOL from New York University. |
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Ms. Yoko Sakurai received her M.A. in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. She is accredited by the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language in Japan. She previously taught at a Japanese language school in Tokyo, where she taught non-native Japanese students who aim to enroll in Japanese universities. She has experience in teaching all levels of Japanese, including the preparatory courses for the Japanese Proficiency Test, Level 1 and 2. Ms. Sakurai has also been engaged in foreign and heritage language education for children from primary to high school level. In addition to current work at Language House, she teaches Japanese at the United Nations International School. In her class she adopts communicative and practical activities based on the actual situations. |
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