| Yoko Imai Penniman |
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Professor
Penniman is most interested in students' language acquisition and developing teaching methods to facilitate the most effective learning. She believes that language learners need contextualized and meaningful input and output for quicker acquisition; their learning should be beyond the simple mechanical exercises based on the textbook. She views the teacher's role as a guide, and has studied effective error correction methods for Japanese learners. She exposes students to the language, and makes her classroom a student-centered learning environment where she encourages them to interact with each other and to use the Japanese language in a variety of meaningful contexts.
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ypenniman@wells.edu
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