Ai Terada joined the DEALL faculty in 2004. At DEALL, she has taught in all five levels of Japanese in all three formats (Regular classroom, Intensive classroom, and Individualized Instruction) as well as a teacher training course (Practicum in East Asian Languages). She has also served as the Resident Director of an OSU sponsored summer study abroad program (Japanese Language and Culture Program at Kobe Shoin Women’s University). She focuses her language teaching on student development of expressing themselves in a culturally coherent manner.