[ PUBLICATIONS ]
I have published or am in the process of publishing the following:
- - - [ 2025 ] - - -
June 2025 –– Book chapter to be published in Education Applications & Developments X that takes a more in-depth look at instructor gradebooks and the CMCAS: The electronic gradebook alternative: The custom-made course administration spreadsheet
June 2025 –– Article expected to be published in the conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Education and Industrial Development (ACEID2025): on Japanese university students and Golden Week: Japanese university students' use of the Golden Week holiday period: A preliminary look
- - - [ 2024 ] - - -
September 2024 –– Article published in JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG September 2024 Think Tank: Innovative Ideas, on how and why it is necessary to teach students and have them practice paraphrasing for academic English writing: Teaching paraphrasing in the age of AI
September 2024 –– Article published in JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG September 2024 Think Tank: Innovative Ideas, on an innovative way to illustrate to students that they do not need to be on their digital devices all the time: Treating digital devices like the tools that they are
June 2024 –– Article published in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Research in Education, Teaching and Learning, on English-only instructional policies in English language education in Japan: Questioning Japan's English-only and other language teaching communicative directives
June 2024 –– Article published in Education and New Developments 2024: Volume 1, on gradebook spreadsheets: Custom-made course administration spreadsheets as an electronic gradebook alternative
April 2024 –– Article published in the Global Edition: General Commentary section of University World News on attendance taking at (primarily) the university level post-pandemic: Is there value in monitoring student course attendance?
April 2024 –– Book chapter published by GIRES (Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship), on matters regarding the taking of attendance, both in face-to-face lessons and remotely: Looking forward, looking backward: Using remote teaching and learning during COVID-19 to reexamine and reexplore the taking of student attendance
- - - [ 2023 ] - - -
March 2023 –– Article published in the conference proceedings of IICE 2023: Students' perspectives of attendance taking and student-teacher communication via the ARS during the first year of emergency remote teaching
- - - [ 2022 ] - - -
September 2022 –– Book chapter published in ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 9: Engaging in Critical Language Studies, on a method of simultaneously taking attendance and developing teacher-student relationships during remote teaching and learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Transforming student-teacher communication under COVID-19: Using the ARS to give students voice in remote Japanese university EFL courses, Part 1
March 2022 –– Article published in the conference proceedings of IICE 2022: Examining the file renaming errors made by Japanese university EFL students during the first year of emergency remote teaching
- - - [ 2021 ] - - -
November 2021 –– Article published in the conference proceedings of the ICERI 2021 (14th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation) conference: Transforming teacher-student communication under COVID-19: Completing analyses of remote progress and information conveyance by students studying English as a foreign language at Japanese universities
July 2021 –– Article published in the Special Edition Summer 2021 issue of Explorations in Teacher Development (reflection article connected to the September 2020 Teacher Journeys 2020: Experiences in Emergency Remote Teaching video submission): Using ARS: Promoting teacher-student interaction at a distance
May 2021 –– Video submission for the GIRES (Global Institute of Research, Education & Scholarship) online conference: Taking attendance at university: Some thoughts brought on by COVID-19
February 2021 –– Article published in Osaka Conference on Education 2020 proceedings about taking student attendance when teaching remotely: Student views of attendance at Japanese universities in the era of COVID-19: A preliminary look
- - - [ 2020 ] - - -
December 2020 –– Book chapter published in ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 8: Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, and Society, on pronunciation and listening: Can clarity surpass familiarity? Japanese EFL learners' /r/ and /l/ phoneme production post-pronunciation training as assessed by listeners with diverse English variety backgrounds
September 2020 –– Video submission for the TD SIG and West Tokyo JALT online conference Teacher Journeys 2020: Experiences in Emergency Remote Teaching: Using ARS: Promoting teacher-student interaction at a distance
June 2020 –– Book chapter published in Vernon Press' The Changing Face of ESP in Today's Classroom and Workplace: Program implementation without pedagogical standardization: A case of English language program teachers utilizing disparate classroom language policies
January 2020 –– Book chapter published in Palgrave Macmillan's English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovations: Examining the pitfalls behind a failed Japanese university ESP program
- - - [ 2019 ] - - -
May 2019 –– Article published in the International Journal of Learning in Higher Education about utilizing active learning practices in an English content class: Research, writing, and active learning in a specialized content class: The case of teaching and learning Western philosophy in English at a Japanese university
- - - [ 2018 ] - - -
December 2018 –– Book chapter published in ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 7: Intersections of Peace and Language Studies, on violence in foreign popular media and Japanese university EFL learning contexts: Foreign popular media: Boon or bane for peaceful educational outcomes in Japanese university EFL learning contexts?
December 2018 –– Article published about the SOCEC Program at Meiji University, in the Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University: A decade of the SOCEC Program: Lessons taught, lessons learned
September 2018 –– Article published about the history of language learning motivation research in the Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University: Go with the flow! Tracing language learning motivation research to Directed Motivational Currents
- - - [ 2017 ] - - -
November 2017 –– Article published from the CIFE 2017 Conference (7th International Conference on Experimental Phonetics — VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental) presentation: Comparing native speakers' intelligibility and acceptability judgments of Japanese EFL learners
- - - [ 2016 ] - - -
December 2016 –– Article published in Journal of Internationalization and Localization: Falling on deaf ears: Questioning why pronunciation is overlooked in second and foreign language instruction
January 2016 –– Book chapter published in the ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 5: Classroom as society: Using peer review to teach an unfamiliar writing style in foreign language writing instruction
- - - [ 2015 ] - - -
September 2015 –– Co-authored article published in the International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Society (ICEPS) 2015 Conference Proceedings: Viewing negative as positive: Augmenting the L2 Learning Experience component of Dörnyei’s L2 Motivational Self System
May 2015 –– Completion and publication of DreaMagic’s “Smile” elementary school English textbook series; as head proofreader (textbooks 4 Part 1, 5 Part 1, and 6 Part 1, of 6 textbooks)
- - - [ 2014 ] - - -
June 2014 –– Completion and publication of DreaMagic’s “Smile” elementary school English textbook series; as head proofreader (textbooks 1 - 3 of 6 textbooks)
June 2014 –– Co-authored article that was published in AABRI San Antonio 2014 Conference Proceedings also published in AABRI’s peer-reviewed Journal of Business Cases and Applications: Preparing to study or travel abroad: The Travel Abroad Motivation Equation (TAME)
April 2014 –– Co-authored article published in AABRI San Antonio 2014 Conference Proceedings: Preparing to study or travel abroad: The Travel Abroad Motivation Equation (TAME). Article won “Best Paper of Track” award in the “Case Studies” track
- - - [ 2013 ] - - -
July 2013 –– Co-authored article published in the 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education proceedings: “Because it’s a different me in each country”: The influence of location on the language and identity of a Japanese double
January 2013 –– Article published in the Asian Conference on Education proceedings: Perceptions of Japanese EFL learners’ /r/ and /l/ pronunciation: Comparing native speakers’ ratings of word-level utterances
- - - [ 2012 ] - - -
October 2012 –– Co-authored book chapter, published in ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 3: Language and Identity, on the identity of a bilingual Japanese-American adolescent double who is learning English: Language environment and identity: The effects of a short-term return trip abroad on a Japanese adolescent double
October 2012 –– Co-authored article published in the International Journal of Language Studies: Language learning motivation: Applying the L2 Motivational Self System
September 2012 –– Expanded article on database construction and usage published in the Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University: End-user databases: An effective digital data management tool for teachers and researchers
April 2012 –– Article published in the E-Learn 2011 conference proceedings: Managing downloaded and created digital “home data”: End-user databases for teachers and researchers
- - - [ 2011 ] - - -
June 2011 –– Article published in the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education proceedings: Seeing what was said: Using audio recording and visualization software in language teaching
June 2011 –– Article published in the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education proceedings: Yes we scan! Using consumer scanners for teaching and research
January 2011 –– Co-authored article published in the Asian Conference on Education proceedings: English loanwords on Japanese television programming: Assessing high-frequency baseword vocabulary usage
- - - [ 2010 ] - - -
December 2010 –– Book chapter published in the ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 2: Do pronunciation preferences have the power to motivate? Examining non-English major university students’ perceptions of English accents
- - - [ 2009 ] - - -
November 2009 –– Article published in the Asian Conference on Education proceedings: Assessing native pronunciation raters from different English variety backgrounds
October 2009 –– Co-authored article published in the JALT2008 conference proceedings: Part-of-speech shift in English loanword adoption
- - - [ 2008 ] - - -
December 2008 –– Article published in The Language Teacher: A scanner brighter: Scans, the literature review, and note taking
October 2008 –– Article published in the JALT2007 conference proceedings: Reintroducing kumi-type structures at university
October 2008 –– Co-authored article published in the JALT2007 conference proceedings: English loanword use on Japanese television
October 2008 –– Article published in the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences: Promoting autonomy by promoting groupwork in Japanese university EFL classes
October 2008 –– Article published in the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences: A cause for pause: A personal reflection on the use of punctuation in Japanese university EFL writers’ compositions
August 2008 –– Article published in the Soonchunhyang Journal of Humanities: Relating gender with culture and society: The silence of Japanese female learners of English in Japan
May 2008 –– Book chapter published in the ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 1: Shifting goals, instructor roles, and Japanese university students' English study methods
May 2008 –– Book chapter published in the ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 1: Teachers’ beliefs about language learning strategies: An exploratory study
- - - [ 2007 ] - - -
October 2007 –– Article published in The Language Teacher: Using listening for writing? Playing podcasts in composition courses
September 2007 –– Article published in the JALT2006 conference proceedings: Expanding the Gardnerian Model of Motivation
April 2007 –– Article published in Asian EFL Journal: Teaching /l/ and /r/ to Japanese EFL learners: Support for segmental-level pronunciation instruction
- - - [ 2006 ] - - -
October 2006 –– Article published in the JALT2005 conference proceedings: Research by means of the Multiple Interview Method
October 2006 –– Article published in The Language Teacher: A specially selected summary and excerpt of the previously published Research by means of the multiple interview method
October 2006 –– Article published in The Language Teacher: A scanner brightly: Tips for information organization and retrieval
June 2006 –– Article published in the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences: Japanese university students’ English study methods: Learning to learn more than course content
June 2006 –– Co-authored article published in the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences: When being bilingual is not enough: Investigating the “other duties” of judicial interpreters in Japan
April 2006 –– Article published in The Language Teacher: Reasons and methods for learning students’ names
- - - [ 2005 ] - - -
August 2005 –– Article published in the JALT2004 conference proceedings: Japanese high school students, motivation, and future goals behind English learning
August 2005 –– Co-authored article published in the JALT2004 conference proceedings: Questioning the extent to which adult female learners of Japanese as a second language should adhere to Japanese “female language” conventions
June 2005 –– Article republished by request in TranslationDirectory.com: Knowing before learning: Ten concepts students should understand prior to enrolling in a university translation or interpretation class
June 2005 –– Article republished by request Proz.com: Knowing before learning: Ten concepts students should understand prior to enrolling in a university translation or interpretation class
June 2005 –– Article published in the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences: From high school to university: Preliminary case study findings of Japanese students' changing English study methods
April 2005 –– Article published in Translation Journal: Knowing before learning: Ten concepts students should understand prior to enrolling in a university translation or interpretation class
- - - [ 2004 ] - - -
Fall 2004 –– Completed writing and piloting textbook for Japanese learners of English
Fall 2004 –– Article published in the NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication: Examining gender and the Japanese female EFL learner: Connections of culture, silence, and power
June 2004 –– Co-authored article published in the Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics: Case studies of language learners as a tool for helping teachers understand the experience of language learners
Spring 2004 –– Article published in the NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication: Are Japanese high school graduates really equipped for university language study? A call for research into the study habits of Japanese students studying English after matriculation to university
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November 2003 –– Article published in Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education: Motivation and Japanese high school EFL students: The overlooked learner
November 2003 –– Article published in Literacy Across Cultures: Japanese writing and the writing of English in Japan: A progression toward simplicity or increased complexity
February 2003 –– Article published in Studies in English Language and Literature: “Yakudoku” and EFL instruction in Japan