JAMES DEAN BROWN. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Yancey (1999) argued that first language writing assessment reseach has gone through three waves of development: (a) the era of. Out that these eras overlap, and as such, her representation of the trends in research are probably accurate. Unfortunately, from my. That James Dean Brown (1995, 1998, 2001), an expert in quantitative research in second language learning, and. Michael Long, an expert in researching NA issues, were the respective researchers for the Japanese and Korean. Both the Japanese and Korean NAs investigated learner interest in visiting Japan and. James Dean Brown, Professor on the graduate faculty of the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializes in the areas of language testing, curriculum design, program evaluation, and research methods.