Staff > Ms. Yuki

Yuki Akita

Program Leader (MLP)
Japanese, Education Officer

Office 11, 3rd floor, Language Centre / University Technology Hub (UTH) building yuki.akita@ubd.edu.bn +673 2463001 ext. 2544

Academic Background


  • MA Language Learning and Education (University of York)

  • BA Applied Linguistics (Aoyama Gakuin University)

  • Certificate for teaching Japanese as a foreign language (H.Academy, Japan)

Teaching Areas


  • Japanese Language and Culture

Research Areas


  • Second Language Acquisition Theory

  • Motivation in second and foreign language learning

  • Cognition and the Related Psychological Dimensions of Bilingualism

• Akita.Y (2005). Japanese Language Education in N.Novgorod (Russia). Nihongo Journal, Tokyo


• Akita.Y. (2009). Teaching Japanese in Multi-lingual Environment. Nihongo Journal, Tokyo


• Akita.Y. (2016) Nakhoda Manis: multilingual version(Japanese translation). Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka & UBD Language Centre


• Akita.Y. (2017). Motivational and perception changes in learning Japanese in Brunei Darussalam. Border Crossing Vol.7, No2.