Home Page of Victoria Muehleisen
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Victoria Muehleisen
Associate Professor
The School of International Liberal Studies
Waseda University
Victoria Muehleisen
Associate Professor
The School of International Liberal Studies
Waseda University
Classes in FALL 2011
Please see the on-line Waseda syllabi for information about these classes. Registered students can download handouts, schedules, and other class information through the Course N@vi system.
- CO203 - Introduction to the Application of Language Studies, Tuesdays, 3rd period
- CO315 - Word Structure and Vocabulary, Mondays and Wednesdays, 5th period
- Seminar on Communication: Seminar on Applied Linguistics --Tuesdays, 5th and 6th periods
Vicky's Professional Life
- Academic Background
- Research Interests
- Publications and Presentations
- Current Projects:
- The Comparative Lexical Relations Group - A group of linguists studying antonymy in different languages.
- The SILS Learner Corpus of English
My now-departed Tora-chan, with his friend Mi-ke., who is still with us (together with 3 other cats!)
A Few Fun and Interesting Linguistics Links
- The Linguist List : The best all around resource for linguistics. Information on books, conferences, linguists, lingustics programs, and links to more web pages!
- Videos about language from the Linguistic Society of America These interesting, short videos are free to download, watch, and use in the classroom.
- Omniglot - a guide to the languages, alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems of the world. Cool!
- Online Etymological Dictionary, if you are interested in the history of English words.
- A few linguistics blogs:
- Language Log with contributions by many famous linguists, focusing on current English.
- Separated by a Common Language by an American linguist in the U.K.
- David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus-Based Linguistics The BEST source of information on corpora, all in one place.
- Corpora interfaces at Brigham Young University: You can access the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the Corpus of Historical American English, the British National Corpus, the corpora of Spanish and Portuguese, with more corpora coming on-line all the time.
- The Leeds Collection of Internet Corpora has free-to-use corpora in several different languages, including English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Finnish, Italian, Spanish and more.
News and Information
Office Hours for Fall 2011- Mondays, 18:15 to 19:30
- Wednesdays, from 11:30 to 12:50
- E-mail: vicky AT waseda DOT jp
- Snail mail: School of International Liberal Studies,Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo JAPAN 169-0051
- Office phone: 03-5286-1378 (on-campus extension: 3682)
- Office location: Building 11, 14th floor, Room 1445
Links for Students and Teachers of English
NOTE: This section needs to be revised, but I probably will not get around to it anytime soon.- Resources for Writing and Doing Research On-Line
- Vicky's List of Common Problems in English Usage - This explains some mistakes Japanese people often make when writing in English. It is not yet finished, but I hope you can use what is there now.
- Advice on choosing a dictionary
- Advice on Increasing Your Vocabulary
- How to Study English
- Advice from Successful Students (essays written by students from a 1997 class--they were all very good at English!)
- Advice from Vicky
The Compleat Lexical Tutor: all sorts of useful tools for studying English or French, and for working with texts. Try the Vocabprofile--you can paste in or upload a text (one you have written, or one from somewhere else) and find out how many words are in the most frequent 1000 words of English, which percent are of Latinate origin, and much more.
With my husband, Masashi Yamamoto, in Saipan, December 2007.
Links to Waseda Information
- Waseda's Home Page in English
- Waseda's Central Library and on-line catalog (WINE)
- If you want to study at Waseda...
- If you want to teach at Waseda...
- If you want to contact a professor at Waseda...
- Campus Maps: English and Japanese
Links for Japanese Study
I am always working to improve my Japanese ability. Here are some sites I have found useful and interesting:- Facebook has a great application called KanjiBox, which you can use to quiz yourself on kana, kanji, and vocabulary. There's also an iPhone version. Fun and useful!
- Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials. I especially like the quizzes on words from Japanese newspapers.
- Reading Tutor Cut-and-paste a text, and dictionary entries for the main content words will pop up onthe right side of the screen. I often use it for reading e-mail when I'm in a hurry.
- Yomoyomo web site for help with reading. Link to a web page, or paste in text. It will tell you how to pronounce the kanji, and it links to a dictionary. BEWARE, though--sometimes it makes mistakes in the readings.
- Another similar reading aid for helping to read web pages is Rikaichan, a pop-up extension for Firefox.
- A Japanese-English dictionaries? On-line, I often use the ones at the Japanese Yahoo web site.
- For a dictionary you can download to your own computer, I recommend one of the ones that uses Jim Bream's E-dict files. (These are the same ones used by Rikaichan.) On my Mac, I use the JEdict software. Free to download, but if you pay and register,you get access to more dictionary files, including a proper names dictionary, a dictionary of legal terms, and a dictionary of linguistics terms. For Windows, a similar program is JQuick Trans.
- Want a quick summary of Japanese grammar? The Wikipedia entry for Japanese grammar is quite good.
- If you like using corpora for language study, try the Japanese corpus of the Leeds Internet Collection (free to use) or the Japanese corpus with Sketch Engine (free 30 day trial). You can use these to see how Japanese words are actually used.
- Finally, an on-line etymological dictionary of Japanese (in Japanese only). Interesting if you want to find out the history of some Japanese words.
