Rebecca Chau

Rebecca Chau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Arts. She serves as Director of the Japanese Language Program.

• Educational Background
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Tsukuba
  • M.A. in Japanese Linguistics from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Research Interests: Dr. Chau specializes in Japanese pedagogy and Japanese linguistics, with a focus on pragmatics, speech acts, and modality. Her work bridges language teaching methodologies with theoretical linguistic analysis, particularly examining contextual language use and grammatical structures in Japanese.