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Dr William Armour

Dr William Armour

Honorary Senior Lecturer

MA, Dip. Ed., Uni of Sydney PhD, UNSW

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

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Phone
9385 3773
E-mail
w.armour@unsw.edu.au
Location
208 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2015
    Nakane I; Otsuji E; Armour WS, 2015, Languages and identities in a transitional Japan: From internationalization to globalization, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315866833
    Books | 2013
    2013, Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese: Descriptions and Applications, Armour WS; Thomson E, (ed.), Equinox - www.equinoxpub.com, UK and USA
    Books | 2008
    Armour WS, 2008, Learning Japanese as and Additional Language: Investigation into Second Language Identity Development, Original, VDM Verlag, Germany
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Armour W, 2022, 'An Exploration of the Birth of the Slave through Ero-Pedagogy in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE', in Halsall A; Warren J (ed.), The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader Critical Openings, Future Directions, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, pp. 142 - 154
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Armour WS; Iida S, 2016, 'Talking Japanese Popular Culture at an Australian University: Insights from a Literacies Pedagogy Perspective', in Shamoon D; McMorran C (ed.), Teaching Japanese Popular Culture, edn. Asia Past & Present, Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, pp. 45 - 60
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lee JF; Armour WS, 2016, 'Factors influencing non-native readers' sequencing of Japanese manga panels', in Pasfiled-Neofitou S; Sell C (ed.), Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, pp. 178 - 193
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Armour WS; Nakane I; Otsuji E, 2015, 'Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan', in Nakane I; Otsuji E; Armour WS (ed.), Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan: From Internationalization to Globalization, Routledge, New York, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315866833
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Armour WS, 2015, 'The Geopolitics of Japanese Soft Power and the Japanese Language and Studies Classroom: Soft Power Pedagogy, Globalisation, and the New Technologies', in Nakane I; Otsuji E; Armour WS (ed.), Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan: From Internationalization to Globalization, Routledge, New York, pp. 37 - 56
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Nakane I; Otsuji E; Armour WS, 2015, 'Japan-in-transition: Reflections and futures', in Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan: From Internationalization to Globalization, edn. Routledge Research in Transnationalism, Routledge, pp. 191 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315866833
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Armour WS; Furuya R, 2013, 'Learning how to mean in Japanese as an additional language', in Thomson E; Armour WS (ed.), Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese: Descriptions and Applications, edn. 1st, Equinox - www.equinoxpub.com, UK and USA, pp. 210 - 253
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Armour WS; Thomson E, 2013, 'Systemic functional theory: description and application', in Thomson E; Armour WS (ed.), Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese: Descriptions and Applications, edn. 1st, Equinox - www.equinoxpub.com, UK and USA, pp. 3 - 22, https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=120
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Armour WS, 2013, '"Voice to Text": Assessing the Expression of Emotions by L2 Learners of Japanese Reading 'Manga' Aloud', in Coleman K; Flood A (ed.), Disciplines: The Lenses of Learning, Common Ground, Champaign, Illinois, pp. 188 - 201, http://theuniversitypressbooks.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.62/prod.41
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Armour W; Iida S, 2022, 'Negociando identidades, saberes y aprendizajes: Lecciones de la cultura popular japonesa', KOBAI Contacto con Japón, pp. 6 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.53010/kobai04.2022.01
    Journal articles | 2019
    Iida S; Armour WS, 2019, 'The voices of adult anime/‘manga’1 fans in Australia: Motivations, consumption patterns and intentions to learn the Japanese language', East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 5, pp. 7 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/EAPC.5.1.7_1
    Journal articles | 2018
    Armour WS; Iida S, 2018, 'Editorial: Contextualizing Japanese popular culture in and out of the Japanese-language classroom', East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 4, pp. 147 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc.4.2.147_2
    Journal articles | 2018
    Armour WS; Iida S, 2018, 'Using the revised Bloom’s taxonomy to reflect on the teaching of the Japanese language through ‘manga’ and anime', East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 4, pp. 205 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc.4.2.205_1
    Journal articles | 2016
    Armour WS; Iida S, 2016, 'Are Australian fans of anime and manga motivated to learn Japanese language?', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 36, pp. 31 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2014.922459
    Journal articles | 2015
    Armour WS; Takeyama Y, 2015, 'Translating Japanese Typefaces in ‘Manga’: Bleach', New Readings, 15, pp. 21 - 45, http://ojs.cf.ac.uk/index.php/newreadings/issue/view/18/showToc
    Journal articles | 2014
    Iida S; Armour WS, 2014, 'Are Australian fans of anime and manga motivated to learn Japanese language?', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 34, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2014.922459
    Journal articles | 2011
    Armour WS, 2011, 'Learning Japanese by Reading ‘manga’: The Rise of ‘Soft Power Pedagogy’', RELC Journal, 42, pp. 125 - 140, http://rel.sagepub.com/content/current
    Journal articles | 2010
    Armour WS, 2010, 'Representations of the Masculine in Tagame Gengoroh's Ero SM Manga', Asian Studies Review, 34, pp. 443 - 465, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2010.527922
    Journal articles | 2009
    Armour WS, 2009, 'Reconceptualising `Identity Splippage`: Additional Language Learning and (L2) Identity Development', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 30, pp. 311 - 326
    Journal articles | 2009
    Armour WS, 2009, 'Reconceptualising `identity slippage`: additional language learning and (L2) identity development', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 30, pp. 311 - 326
    Journal articles | 2004
    Armour WS, 2004, 'Becoming a Japanese Language Learner, User, and Teacher: Revelations from Life History Research', Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 3, pp. 101 - 126
    Journal articles | 2003
    Armour WS, 2003, 'Making sense of the Japanese Grammar: A Clear guide through common problems', Japanese Studies, 23, pp. 90 - 92
    Journal articles | 2003
    Armour WS, 2003, '`Nihonjin No Yoo To Omoimashita` (I think I`m Like a Japanese): Additional language learning and the development of multiple identities', Asian Identities, 4, pp. 115 - 128
    Journal articles | 2001
    Armour WS, 2001, 'This Guy is Japanese Stuck in a White Man`s Body`: A Discussion of Meaning Making, Identity Slippage, and Cross-cultural Adaptation', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, pp. 1 - 18
    Journal articles | 2000
    Armour WS, 2000, 'My Father, the Japanese and Me', Show Cause, pp. 26 - 27
    Journal articles | 1998
    Armour WS, 1998, 'Putting More then Words in their Mouths: Using Model Dialogues to Construct Social Reality in the Japanese Language Classroom', Japanese Studies, 18, pp. 181 - 197
    Journal articles | 1997
    Armour WS, 1997, 'The Meanings we make with Education', Education Australia, pp. 13 - 16
  • Conference Papers | 1997
    Armour WS, 1997, 'The Social Semiotics of Japanese Children`s Manga: A Study into the Production of Japanese Identity', in 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, Melbourne, presented at 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, Melbourne, 06 July 1997
    Conference Papers | 1997
    Armour WS, 1997, 'Where am I ? Who am I ? The Development of Non-Native Japanese Language Teacher`s Bilingual Identity - Some Preliminary Findings', in 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, Melbourne, presented at 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Associaton of Australia, Melbourne, 06 July 1997

DEDAC member (S1, 2011); Member of Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Association, American Teachers of Japanese

My Teaching

Semester 1 2011: ARTS1630 Introductory Japanese A