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Emi Fujiyama, M.A.


Office: FDH, 531
Phone: (702) 895-3164
Email: emi.fujiyama@unlv.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Areas of specialization:

  • Japanese Pedagogy
  • Second Language Acquisition

Biography:

Emi Fujiyama is a Japanese language coordinator for the Japanese Program in the Department of Foreign Languages. She received her bachelor's degree from the Illinois State University and master's degree in Japanese Pedagogy from San Francisco State University. She did a study on the Japanese and English bilingual children and their speech development.

Fujiyama has been teaching Japanese since 2000. At UNLV, she has taught elementary Japanese I and II (JPN113 and JPN114), intermediate Japanese II (JPN214), third year Japanese I (JPN301) and advance composition (JPN401). She is the advisor for the Japanese club at UNLV.

Emi Fujiyama was a president of the Southern Nevada Japanese Teachers Association (SNJTA) from August 2006 to May 2008. SNJTA co-sponsors the Japanese speech contest in Southern Nevada annually with the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco.