Eriko Sato

About

Eriko Sato is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, translation studies, and Japanese linguistics and pedagogy at Stony Brook University. She serves as the Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and as the Director of the Language Learning and Research Center (LLRC). Her research areas include translanguaging, translation studies, intercultural communication, language learning and teaching, online teaching, and Japanese linguistics and pedagogy. She has authored a research monograph titled "Translanguaging in Translation: Invisible Contributions that Shape Our Language and Society" published in 2022, and has created Japanese textbooks, grammar references, and learning materials, as well as compiled and translated over 20 Japanese folktales. Sato has been recognized with awards such as the 2019 AAUW Fellowship and the 2021 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She regularly teaches courses in translation studies, Asian languages, and Japanese language at both graduate and undergraduate levels, contributing significantly to her field through her research, publications, and teaching.

Research topics

• Surgery
• Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Linguistics
• Biology
• Medical physics

Selected publications

• Translanguaging, Translation and Interpreting Studies, and bilingualism

  Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 17 citations

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  Translation, regardless of whether it is written or oral, serves as a bridge between us and others who speak different languages. Accordingly, translation may represent the culture of the source message for the convenience of the audience of the translation. This chapter examines how translanguaging and translation complement each other and consider their implications on bilingualism and language development. It explores the state and role of translanguaging in translation and give examples of h…

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• From intercultural engagement to intercultural communicative competence: The case of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

  Foreign Language Annals · 2023 · 8 citations

  Abstract As the objective of language teaching is shifting from producing so‐called “native‐like” speakers to fostering speakers competent in intercultural communication, it has become necessary to identify the kinds of learning resources that may be related to the learner's development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in today's context of globalization and technological innovation. Employing a mixed‐method approach with focus group interviews ( n = 46) and a survey ( n = 342), t…

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• Translation and Translanguaging

  2025-11-20

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  Translation and translanguaging (both oral and written) have distinct orientations, functions, and characteristics. However, they are both bilinguals' language practices that are situated at a boundary between different languages and different cultures. How exactly do translation and translanguaging differ? Can they co-exist? If so, why? What is the epistemological relationship between translation and translanguaging? This chapter illustrates how translation and translanguaging intersect, comple…

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• Hybridity

  The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics · 2025-12-02

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  Abstract Hybridity is the mixture, co‐existence, convergence, or fusion of elements from multiple categories that were or are considered different. The concept of hybridity in applied linguistics challenges essentialism, purism, and structuralism that detach language from the context of its use and explains why our languages constantly self‐evolve, reflecting the changes in our societies. Hybridity is an inherent nature of language when language is viewed not as a static set of rules and codes b…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sohei Mitani

  15 shared

• Naohito Hato

  13 shared

• Takashi Kitani

  Ehime University

  11 shared

• Naoki Nishio

  Nagoya University

  10 shared

• Tomoyoshi Sanada

  Uwajima City Hospital

  8 shared

• Toru Ugumori

  7 shared

• Hirofumi Sei

  Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital

  5 shared

• Hiroyuki Wakisaka

  Ehime Prefectural University of Health Science

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D, Linguistics

  Stony Brook University

  1996

Awards & honors

• 2019 AAUW Fellow

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