Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language

Department of East Asian Studies Princeton University

Contact

218 Frist Campus Center

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-1439

Email: [email protected]

Profile

Hisae Matsui holds an Ed.D. in Technology Education and an M.A. in TESOL/Linguistics from West Virginia University, as well as a B.Ed. in Elementary Education from Hiroshima University, Japan. She has been teaching Japanese language courses for first through fourth years at Princeton since 2007. Prior to joining Princeton, she taught Japanese language and content courses at Salem International University. Her scholarly interests focus on the integration of innovative technology into world language pedagogy. Her current research explores the use of design thinking in curriculum development, adaptive and personalized approaches to language instruction, virtual exchanges between native and non-native speakers of Japanese, and the utilization of artificial intelligence tools in second-language acquisition.

EDUCATION

Ed.D. in Technology Education, August 2014

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

• Minor: TESOL
• Dissertation: "The Impact of Visual Elements in Virtual Environments on Interpersonal Emotional Connection in Telecollaboration"

M.A. in TESOL/Linguistics, May 2002

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

B.Ed. in Elementary Education (Specialization: English), March 1998

Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Teaching Certificates (Japanese Teaching License)

• Elementary School
• Junior High School (English)
• High School (English)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Japanese Language

Full-Time Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Fall 2007 – Present

• Taught courses: Elementary Japanese I & II, Intermediate Japanese I & II, Advanced Japanese I & II, Integrative Advanced Japanese I & II

Visiting Instructor, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

Summer 2025 –

• Taught course: Japanese Pedagogical Grammar (graduate-level), exploring pedagogical approaches to Japanese grammar and the ethical application of AI in language instruction.

Full-Time Instructor, Salem International University, Salem, WV

Fall 2002 – Spring 2007