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Jae DiBello Takeuchi

@jaetakeuchi.bsky.social
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Ph.D, Japanese sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, JFL learning & teaching. 博士号、日本語社会言語学、応用言語学、外国語としての日本語教育。趣味はピアノ。she, her Indiana University; www.jaedibellotakeuchi.com

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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My dept. here at #IndianaUniversity is #hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of #Japanese Domestic #Politics. Please see the link for details, and feel free to share!! #higheredjobs indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32797
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Domestic Politics
Indiana University-Bloomington's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies seeks applications for a full-time visiting assistant professor (VAP) of Japanese domestic politics to begin ...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Check out my latest substack, Lost in Transcription, where I share a #sociolinguist's take on the inherent shortcomings of #voice #AI jaetakeuchi.substack.com/p/lost-in-tr...
Woman happily talking into a device, using speech-to-text technology
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Here's my latest Substack article on thinking about different justifications for using, or not using, #AI jaetakeuchi.substack.com/p/the-ai-pro...
Picture of women with a thought bubble, thinking "Use your own brain!"
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Check out my latest substack: Dear #ChatGPT, please study #sociolinguistics! Language learners have had enough already! open.substack.com/pub/jaetakeu...
Image of AI-brain-body sitting at a desk studying with topics floating around its head.
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My latest substack is about #AI #VoiceMode for #Language #Learners. Check it out! jaetakeuchi.substack.com/p/ai-voice-m...
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AI Voice Mode for Language Learners
Episode One
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There's so much hype surrounding #AI I decided to write about it in my latest substack "the AI Propaganda Machine, don't believe the hype" jaetakeuchi.substack.com/p/the-ai-pro...
Image of article about genAI with blog title superimposed "the AI Propaganda Machine, don't believe the hype"
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Check out my latest on substack re #AI and #thinking. (for the record, my substack is (and always will be) free, you can subscribe for free or read without subscribing.) open.substack.com/pub/jaetakeu...
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Figuring out the downsides of AI
What do we lose when we farm out the work of thinking?
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I started a Substack, Small Talk. I will mostly be sharing my musings about generative AI and its impacts on higher ed and higher order thinking. Please check it out: jaetakeuchi.substack.com
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Small Talk | Jae DiBello Takeuchi | Substack
Working on Japanese sociolinguistics while looking out across the world. Interested in AI's impact on higher ed, & on higher thinking. Mediocre but enthusiastic pianist. Associate Prof of Japanese & J...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Just asked my library to purchase this book! You should do the same! #appliedlinguistics #accent
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This article makes a good case for not relying on digital tools when writing. But as someone who works in #appliedlinguistics, I also see it as a testament to the role of #language in crafting and performing #identity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Throw Your Dictionary Away
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I’m really looking forward to reading this new article by @scriptingjapan.bsky.social article about #linguisticideologies and #katakana
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My 2023 book is coming out in paperback in Sept. Use discount code DELPA30 for 30% off when you order from the publisher's website. Title: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan. Here's the flyer. #AppliedLinguistics #Japanese #L2 #sociolinguistics #SLA
Flyer with discount code DELPA30 for 30% off when you order my book "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan."
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My book about #languageideologies and #L2speaker legitimacy, which examines #nativespeakerbias in #Japan will be out in paperback in Sept! Use discount code DELPA30 for 30% off if you order from the publisher's @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social website, here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
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Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy
This book examines dilemmas faced by second language Japanese speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as speakers of Japanese. It explores ideologies linked to three core spe...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
There's something satisfying about seeing genAI struggle with 文字化け。
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
EALC at Indiana U. is hiring a NTT #VisitingAssistantProfessor of #Japanese #language & #linguistics. Position begins Aug 1 2025. All apps received by May 23 2025 are guaranteed full consideration; open until filled. For complete info see: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29467 Please share!
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Linguistics
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
FYI in case anyone would like to consider hosting the 2026 #SecondLanguage Research Forum I did not submit to present at SLRF 2025, but I am going to try to attend, given that the last time I went to SLRF, it was really great. #SLRF #Linguistics #L2 #appliedlinguistics
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New book coming out July15 2025! My chapter is on #L2 #Japanese Speakers and #Language #Ideologies, I examine the impact of #Monolingual bias on beliefs about unwanted #CodeSwitching .Use discount code ICJ50 & get 50%off @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
Flyer with 50% off discount code ICJ50, for book titled "Ideologies of Communication in Japan."
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Does anyone have a go-to "here's what AI is & here's how it works" type article? Also looking for more recent "pros/cons of AI in #academia" or "pros/cons of AI for #writing" articles. I'm updating my #AI activity for #linguistics class & what I used before is now old. Pls let me know of any recs!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is helpful, esp. for anyone new to peer review. "If you think the topic is not worthy of study, you should decline to do the review" Exactly! It can be helpful to remember that editors don't send it out if it doesn't have any chance of getting published. tl;dr: don't be a jerk when reviewing!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Here's something I don't often share on my BlueSky profile: me playing the #piano. All work and no play makes Jae a dull girl, after all. Wind, by Brian Crain. youtu.be/o1P-K4gAQtw
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Wind (by Brian Crain)
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Was looking thru my 2011 MA thesis on #codeswitching & noticed something... Each excerpt is 4 lines: Line 1 is the utterance; Line 2 is the gloss, Line 3 is English. Line 4 is paraling info. Lines 1-3 are in the same font, line 3 is in italics and Line 4 is .... wait for it.... in Comic Sans. 😅
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This term I’m teaching 2 courses on #Japanese #sociolinguistics. On the 1st day I asked students to tell me what questions they have. One asked “What problem does sociolinguistics solve?” I’ll definitely be asking them this at the mid-point & again at the end of the semester! How would you answer?
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Really want to make this my winter break OOO message!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Everyone who works in academia should be reading this...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is (unintentionally I assume) an argument for serif fonts. On my phone,the main different b/w kuchi & ro is size. On my computer, you can see the serifs, so one is clearly kanji &the other clearly katakana. Using MSWord, compare MS Mincho w/ MS Gothic or ud digi kyokasho & see the differences
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here's what I'm reading this morning. Among other important points the author makes, I like this one in particular: ""writing isn’t really something you learn or teach—it’s something you practice" Nnext we need the #languagelearning version of this article. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)
Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Ummm…..
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Was looking thru notes I took while listening to an English-lang. webinar and saw that I wrote “learner 同士のinteraction.” I don’t have any recollection of #code-switching and I doubt I would have done this if I were typing (bc of the extra step required to switch input method). 1/ #appliedlinguistics
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Japanese language learner: コップ?カップ?グラス?ガラス?どっち?? (FYI both koppu & kappu refer to different kinds of cups, gurasu is for drinking glasses & garasu refers to material, e.g., glass as opposed to plastic) #Japanese #languagelearning
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Bc of paywall, I could only read the first bit of this article, but people w/in #Japan and beyond have been criticizing Japan’s resistance to 夫婦別姓 for as long as I can remember (I first moved to Japan in the 1990s). The time is long past to make it happen. #ジェンダー mainichi.jp/articles/202...
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BeMe:夫婦別姓導入へ4度勧告「恥ずべきだ」 国連委と建設的対話欠く日本 | 毎日新聞
スイス・ジュネーブの国連欧州本部で10月、女性差別撤廃委員会(CEDAW)の日本政府への8年ぶりの審査があった。CEDAWから最終見解が示され、選択的夫婦別姓の導入や皇室典範の改正などさまざまな勧告が出された。私たちはどう受け止めるべきなのか。国際人権法の研究者で、審査を傍聴した藤田早苗・英国エセ
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Looking forward to listening to this!!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Heads up. If you think there’s any app or online platform where your words aren’t going to be scrapped and used as AI training data, think again. Also note: if you opt out, you’ll lose access to dictation, text suggestions, transcription, translation and probably other functions as well.
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Really looking forward to reading this!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Have to figure out a way to watch this year since we’ll be in the U.S. (and we canceled out Japanese tv subscription)
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey @scriptingjapan.bsky.social should we (could we) make a starter pack for Japanese linguistics (broadly defined)? (I confess I do not know how to do that, but I’m sure I can figure it out).
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Next semester, I’m teaching a new #sociolinguistics grad course on E. Asian #languages. The guiding question is “what do #Chinese, #Japanese or #Korean teachers need to know about sociolinguistics?” Please share your recs for readings, esp. re Chinese or Korean socioing. #langsky #linguistics
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thanks for this! I’ll share it with my students!
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’ve been away from BlueSky for about year, but now seems like a good time to return. I’m interested in #linguistics especially #sociolinguistics and #L2 #Japanese. Show what you got, BlueSky!
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
‘Language is a verb’ ; Why identity matters in language learning clarknow.clarku.edu/...
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‘Language is a verb’
  To Uju Anya, learning a language is a transformation. The Carnegie Mellon University professor of applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse believes learning and ‘languaging’ is an intrinsic […]
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Amazonで売られている増税メガネの写真
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sigh @wulatum.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
bskiers, can anyone point me to a source or sources that provide a consensus/best practices on taking video of sign language production? signers feel like a footnote in most "general" videography guides. #linguistics 🐦🐦
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
One of the victims of the UNLV shooting was Dr. Naoko Takemaru, prof of Japanese studies. I didn’t know her, but I know her work,esp. "Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias." It's a heartbreaking loss for her family, friends, students and more. #langsky #Japanese
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
New on Language-on-the-Move: seeing the linguistic landscape through the eyes of Barbie and Ken, by Sarah Hopkyns www.languageonthemove.com/seeing-the-l...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Look what came in the post. My specialty is more applied linguistics but I have a book addiction … er, I mean, it was on sale… Or something like that…
Photo of book cover, book titled “Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology” by Perrin and Pritzker, editors.
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
It can be hard to have a quick response to an inappropriate remark, and we've all had the experience of coming up with the perfect retort .... several hours later. This NYT article had a few good ones, esp this one: "I'm not your target audience." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/w...
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4 Ways to Avoid Awkward Moments This Thanksgiving
Setting boundaries can defuse tension, experts say. Here’s how they do it.
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
MLA’s report on ”Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education” is out. Click on the link that says press release for a snapshot. Data is from Fall 2021 so it’s hard to interpret. #langsky #foreign #language #teaching www.mla.org/Resources/Gu...
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Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States...
Data gathering for the next enrollment report is scheduled to begin in fall 2024.Current ReportsThe MLA’s comprehensive study describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrol...
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Yes! I have been talking w my students about the idea that “writing is thinking” and farming out your writing to genAI is ultimately farming out your thinking, but this is another piece I can share with them about the drawbacks of genAI. You can’t develop your voice if you don’t use it…
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Does #linguistic landscape research count car license plates as "signage" or otherwise a LL feature? I would like to know how LL researchers would account for the juxtaposition of this truck, its custom license plate, and the fact that it costs $45 every year to maintain the custom plate... #langsky
Red Dodge pickup truck with license plate that reads "Gurl Bye"
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
No - no?
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi @jaetakeuchi.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Giving some advice to a 1st yr student yesterday about how to manage a conflict w another prof., then I said "this is an example of the hidden curriculum" -- which she hadn't heard about, so then we talked about that. What are they teaching them in those 1st yr experience classes?? 😑 #academia
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