{ PRESENTATIONS }
I have presented or plan to present at the following conferences:
- - - { 2025 } - - -
July 2025 –– Accepted to present at The Thirty-Second International Conference on Learning; on instructor GenAI policy enforcement difficulties; Granada, Spain
March 2025 –– The 11th Asian Conference on Education and International Development (ACEID2025); on Japanese university students' use and perceptions of Golden Week; Tokyo, Japan [Paper to be published]
- - - { 2024 } - - -
November 2024 –– JALT2024; in Technology in Teaching (TnT) section; workshop on spreadsheet gradebook solutions; Shizuoka, Japan
June 2024 –– END (International Conference on Education and New Developments) 2024; on digital data handling solutions; Porto, Portugal [Paper published]
May 2024 –– ICETL (International Conference on Research in Education, Teaching and Learning); on target-language-only teaching directives and policies in Japan; Rome, Italy [Paper published]
April 2024 –– Keynote Speaker by invitation for the 8th International Conference on Future of Teaching and Education; on attendance matters post-pandemic; Madrid, Spain
- - - { 2023 } - - -
June 2023 –– ICFTE (International Conference on Future of Teaching and Education); on research investigating the Golden Week holiday period's influence on Japanese university students' academic endeavors; Vienna, Austria
January 2023 –– IICE 2023 (IAFOR International Conference on Education); on students' perspectives of the taking of attendance and student-teacher communication during the first year of emergency remote teaching; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA [Paper published]
- - - { 2022 } - - -
September 2022 –– Accepted to present at TaCo 2022; presentation cancelled
January 2022 –– IICE 2022 (IAFOR International Conference on Education); on student typing mistakes when renaming computer files during the remote 2020 academic school year; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (hybrid conference but due to coronavirus concerns the presentation was prerecorded as an on-demand video) [Paper and video published]
- - - { 2021 } - - -
November 2021 –– ICERI 2021 (14th Annual International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation); on analyses of student remote feedback during the 2020 academic school year; Seville, Spain (but due to coronavirus concerns the entire conference went virtually only) [Paper published]
October 2021 –– Accepted to present at TaCo 2021; the conference has again been postponed (to 2022) due to coronavirus concerns
May 2021 –– GIRES (Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship) International Conference; on issues regarding taking attendance at the university level, both in the classroom and done remotely; Amsterdam, the Netherlands (but held virtually only) [Paper published]
March 2021 –– NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 52nd Convention; on issues related to taking attendance during remote teaching and learning; Philadelphia, PA, USA (but held virtually only)
- - - { 2020 } - - -
December 2020 –– OCE2020 (Osaka Conference on Education 2020); on taking student attendance when teaching remotely; presentation style was online synchronous [Paper published]
October 2020 –– Accepted to present at TaCo 2020; the conference has been postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus concerns
September 2020 –– Video submission for the TD SIG and West Tokyo JALT online conference Teacher Journeys 2020: Experiences in Emergency Remote Teaching [Paper and video published]
- - - { 2019 } - - -
September 2019 –– 12th Autism-Europe International Congress 2019; on Asperger's syndrome and its lost label in the DSM-5 (in conjunction with the end of the TV series The Big Bang Theory and the "quirky" character Sheldon Cooper); Nice, France
June 2019 –– 2019 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on situational influences on language learning students' language learning motivation; Hong Kong (The Open University of Hong Kong)
- - - { 2018 } - - -
November 2018 –– Applied Linguistics Association of Australia 2018 Conference with Pronunciation Symposium; on statistical analyses of pronunciation ratings; Wollongong, Australia (University of Wollongong)
June 2018 –– The Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Learning; on teaching classes on Western philosophy in English at a Japanese university; Athens, Greece (Athens University) [Paper published]
June 2018 –– The third international Psychology of Language Learning conference (PLL3); on vision, voices, and ideal L2 self currents in language learning motivation; Tokyo, Japan (Waseda University)
- - - { 2017 } - - -
November 2017 –– CIFE 2017 (7th International Conference on Experimental Phonetics — VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental); on the intelligibility and acceptability of Japanese EFL learners' pronunciation by native English speakers with varied background dialects; Madrid, Spain, at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) [Paper published]
August 2017 –– International Symposium on Strengthening Peace through Education; on Japanese university students' perceptions of the images of peace and violence found in Western media; Nagasaki, Japan
June 2017 –– 2017 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on the influence of Western media on Japanese university students' perceptions of peace and violence in Western cultures; Honolulu, Hawaii, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa [Paper accepted for publication]
- - - { 2016 } - - -
October 2016 –– International Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education Research Conference; on teaching translation and interpretation; Berlin, Germany
- - - { 2015 } - - -
October 2015 –– International EPIC 2015 Conference; on pronunciation and interculturality; in Antwerp, Belgium [Paper published]
July 2015 –– 2015 International Conference on Education Psychology and Society; on the rationale for augmenting Dörnyei’s L2 Motivational Self System; Okinawa, Japan [Paper published]
- - - { 2014 } - - -
October 2014 –– Academic and Business Research Institute Conference; on language environment and identity; Las Vegas, Nevada
June 2014 –– ISLS 2014 Conference; on the effects of peer review on Japanese university students’ learning and writing academic English; Akita, Japan [Paper published]
April 2014 –– Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association; on analyses of Asperger’s syndrome and The Big Bang Theory; Chicago, Illinois [Paper submitted]
March 2014 –– Academic and Business Research Institute Conference; on language learning motivation and study abroad / short-term trips abroad; San Antonio, Texas. Article won “Best Paper of Track” award in the “Case Studies” track at the conference. [Paper published]
- - - { 2013 } - - -
October 2013 –– MIMS2 (Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies 2) Conference; on the L2 Learning Experience component of the L2 Motivational Self System; Hamburg, Germany
January 2013 –– 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education; on the influence of location on the language and identity of a Japanese double; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2012 } - - -
October 2012 –– The Asian Conference on Education; on native speakers’ perceptions of Japanese EFL learners’ /r/ and /l/ pronunciation; Osaka, Japan [Paper published]
- - - { 2011 } - - -
October 2011 –– E-Learn 2011; on constructing and using end-user databases for teachers and researchers; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
July 2011 –– CUE 2011; on the motivation and identity of a bilingual Japanese-American adolescent double; Tokyo, Japan
January 2011 –– 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education; on using audio recording and visualization software for teaching phonetics; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
January 2011 –– 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education; on effectively using scanners for teaching and research; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2010 } - - -
December 2010 –– The Asian Conference on Education; on high-frequency baseword English loanwords on Japanese television; Osaka, Japan [Paper published]
- - - { 2009 } - - -
October 2009 –– The Asian Conference on Education; on assessing native English speaking pronunciation raters; Osaka, Japan [Paper published]
June 2009 –– 2009 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on Japanese females, silence, and English language learning; Orlando, Florida [Paper published]
June 2009 –– 2009 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on Japanese university students' views of English varieties' pronunciation; Orlando, Florida [Paper published]
- - - { 2008 } - - -
November 2008 –– JALT2008 International Conference; on English loanword usage on Japanese television; Tokyo, Japan [Paper published]
June 2008 –– 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; on Japanese university students' autonomy and groupwork; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
June 2008 –– 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; on Japanese university students' English writing; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2007 } - - -
November 2007 –– JALT2007 International Conference; on research on group learning structures in English courses at Japanese universities; Tokyo, Japan [Paper published]
November 2007 –– JALT2007 International Conference; on English loanword usage on Japanese television; Tokyo, Japan [Paper published]
October 2007 –– The Independent Learning Association 2007 Japan Conference; on kumi and han learning at university to foster culturally appropriate autonomous learning; Chiba, Japan
September 2007 –– Symposium on Second Language Writing; on punctuation use by Japanese EFL learners; Nagoya, Japan
April 2007 –– 2007 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on teacher beliefs regarding students’ use of language learning strategies; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
April 2007 –– 2007 ISLS (International Society for Language Studies) Conference; on instructor roles and Japanese university students’ English study methods; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2006 } - - -
November 2006 –– JALT2006 International Conference; on expanding the Gardnerian framework of language learning motivation; Kokura, Japan [Paper published]
June 2006 –– 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; on Japanese university students’ changing study methods; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
June 2006 –– 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; on a pilot study on the "other duties" of judicial interpreters in Japan; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2005 } - - -
October 2005 –– JALT2005 International Conference; on how to conduct interviews for qualitative research; Shizuoka, Japan [Paper published]
June 2005 –– 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; on Japanese university students’ changing study methods; Honolulu, Hawaii [Paper published]
- - - { 2004 } - - -
November 2004 –– JALT2004 International Conference; on language learning motivation and the lifelong learning of Japanese high school students; Nara, Japan [Paper published]
- - - { 2001 } - - -
November 2001 –– TexTESOL conference; on a pilot study on language learning motivation; Austin, Texas
- - - { 2000 } - - -
October 2000 –– TexTESOL conference; on Masters Research Paper on a bilingual's language acquisition; San Antonio, Texas