Board of Advisors

The ALLEX Board of Advisors is primarily responsible for the governance and implementation of its academic-year teacher placement and summer training programs, as well as the academic integrity of the organization.

Chair:
Mari Noda, Ph.D.
Academic Director, ALLEX
Professor of Japanese, The Ohio State University

Professor Noda has taught in the ALLEX/ExchangeJapan summer teacher training programs for over thirty years, and has served as Academic Director since 2015. Since 1988 she has trained nearly 1,200 instructors of Chinese and Japanese. A specialist in East Asian language pedagogy, Professor Noda focuses her research on teacher training, material development, assessment, and study abroad. She is the coordinating author of NihonGO NOW!, a new performance-based curriculum, including textbook, audio and video material, for beginning and intermediate students of Japanese. She is also the co-author, with Eleanor H. Jorden, of Japanese: The Spoken Language, as well as many other books and articles on East Asian Language pedagogy and study abroad.