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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Master’s Program in English Education

Topics of master’s theses (for 2021)

  • A Study in the Acceptance of Western Sports in Early and Middle Meiji Era through an English Teacher F.W. Strange from English Learning Perspective
  • Assistant Language Teachers and Japanese Teachers of English in EFL Classes in Japan – Enhancing Student Learning and Motivation Through Team Teaching –
  • Challenges in Assigning Extracurricular Extensive Listening Activities
  • Teachers’ Reactions to Introducing Commercial 4-Skills Tests for University Entrance Decisions
  • Language Learning Strategies of EFL and ESL Learners and Their Beliefs of Good Language Learners

Credits and Degrees

Master’s Program

Requirements for completion

Number of credits to be obtained

Educational and research field

Specialization field

At least 6 credits

At least 30 credits in total

Related field (elective)

At least 6 credits each

Common to each field

At least 2 credits

Research guidance Writing a master’s thesis

Master (Language Education)

Doctoral Program

  • Typically, at least three extra years of school attendance
  • At least 10 credits to be obtained in the specified subjects
  • Foreign language proficiency tests
  • Research presentation
  • Publication of peer-reviewed papers
  • Doctoral thesis

Doctor (Language Education)

Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2022)

Educational
and research field

Class subjects

Credits

Teachers

English language education English Teaching 1 (Teaching of English) 2 HOSAKA Yoshio
English Teaching 2 (English Language Assessment) 2 James SICK
English Teaching 3 (English Teaching Methodology) 2 KANO Noriko
English Teaching 4 (English Teaching Materials) 2 HIDAI Shigeyuki
English Teaching 5 (Teaching of English in the Classroom) 2 James SICK
English Teaching 6 (Second Language Acquisition) 2 HASEGAWA Ayako
English Teaching 7 (Teaching English to Children) 2 IMURA Keiko
Linguistics and English Linguistics English Linguistics 1 (English Grammar) 2 James SICK
English Linguistics 2 (History of English) 2 TANABE Harumi
English Linguistics 3 (English Phonology) 2 WATANABE Tsutomu
English Linguistics 4 (English Semantics) 2 YAMADA Masamichi
English Linguistics 5 (English Pragmatics) 2 YAMADA Masamichi
English Linguistics 6 (English) 2 ABE Mariko
Linguistics (Contrastive Linguistics) 2 WATANABE Tsutomu
English communication English Communication 1 (Communication) 2 James SICK
English Communication 2 (Education for International and Intercultural Understanding) 2 KOJIMA Kazue
English Communication 3 (Contrastive Study of English and Japanese Expressions) 2 SHIOZAKI Satoshi
English Communication 4 (Audio-visual &Computer Instruction) 2 MIKAMI Akira
English Communication 5 (Communication in English 1) 2 Brian J. ENGLISH
English Communication 6 (Communication in English 2) 2 Brian J. ENGLISH
Special Studies in English Communication Ability 1 2 Brian J. ENGLISH
Special Studies in English Communication Ability 2 2 Brian J. ENGLISH
Special Studies in English Communication Ability 3 2 James SICK
Special Studies in English Communication Ability 4 2 Corin GOLDING
Advanced seminar (thesis guidance) Thesis Research in English Language Education All the supervising professors
Thesis Research in (English) Linguistics
Thesis Research in English Communication
Common to each field (master’s program) Linguistics (General Linguistics) 2 SAITO Yoshio
Phonetics & Phonology 2 WATANABE Tsutomu
Studies in Language Information Processing 2 MIKAMI Akira
Chinese Linguistics 2 ASAI Sumitami
Special Studies in Chinese Linguistics 2 HIRAYAMA Kunihiko
Spanish Linguistics 2 YASUTOMI Yuhei
Language Education (Fundamental Statistics in SLA) 2 HOSAKA Yoshio

≪Notes≫

  • *At least 30 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.

Master’s program in Japanese Education

Topics of master’s theses (for 2021)

  • On the Causes of Misuse of Sino-Japanese Kanji Forms by Chinese Learners of Japanese in Japan  – From the Perspective of Interlanguage –
  • Non-loan Words Written in Katakana in blog.
  • A Survey of Chinese Japanese Learner in Resultative Conjunction ―Focus onshitaggate」「sonotame」「sonokekka」「sokode
  • Class Design for the understanding of inanimate subject passive sentences of beginner Junior High School Japanese learners  -As the first step in reading a geography textbook
  • Basic survey of youth language in the linguistic landscape and its application to Japanese language education ―Target downtown in Tokyo―
  • A Study of Collaboration among Teachers Working with Children in Need of Japanese Language Instruction.  ―An Analysis of the public elementary school “A” in the subcenter area of Tokyo―
  • The Acquisition of Length Contrasts in Japanese by Native Speakers of Chinese
  • How to Handle On-yomi in the Japanese Chinese Characters Dictionaries Seen Through Kan-yoo-on
  • Research of the meaning and usage of the compound verb “-komu” by using the Container metaphor
  • Semantic analysis of body part word “face” based on cognitive linguistics -a comparison between Chinese and Japanese-
  • The history of the word rieki: From a perspective of Japan-Chinese vocabulary exchange
  • The Usage of “VP+HO-GA-II” in Interrogative Expressions

Credits and Degrees

Master’s Program

Requirements for completion

Number of credits to be obtained

Educational and research field

Specialization field

At least 6 credits

At least 30 credits in total

Related field (elective)

At least 6 credits each

Common to each field

At least 2 credits

Research guidance Writing a master’s thesis

Master (Language Education)

Doctoral Program

  • Typically, at least three extra years of school attendance
  • At least 10 credits to be obtained in the specified subjects
  • Foreign language proficiency tests
  • Research presentation
  • Publication of peer-reviewed papers
  • Doctoral thesis

Doctor (Language Education)

Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2022)

Educational
and research field

Class subjects

Credits

Teachers

Linguistics and Japanese linguistics Japanese Linguistics 1 (Grammar & Syntax 1) 2 KOI Atsuko
Japanese Linguistics 2 (Grammar & Syntax 2) 2 KOI Atsuko
Japanese Linguistics 3 (Lexicon & Semantics) 2 KIM Eran
Japanese Linguistics 4 (Phonetics) 2 SAITÔ Yoshio
Japanese Linguistics 5 (Letters & Writing Systems) 2 AKUTSU Satoru
Japanese Linguistics 6 (History of Japanese) 2 AKUTSU Satoru
Japanese Linguistics 7 (Corpus) 2 SHIMIZU Yukiko
Japanese education Teaching of Japanese 2 HIRAYAMA Shiho
Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 1 (Theory) 2 NAKAMURA Kaori
Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 2 (Practice) 2 OKOSHI Takako
Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 3 (Practical Research) 2 OKOSHI Takako
Discourse on Japanese Language Teaching Materials 2 HIRAYAMA Shiho
Evaluation in Japanese Language Teaching 2 KONDO Masumi
Theories of Counseling (for Cross-Cultural Strategies) 2 MIYAGI Toru
Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 1 2 AKAGI Nao
Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 1 2 YAMAGUCHI Takamasa
Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 2 2 SANO Masatoshi
Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 2 2 AKAGI Nao
Methods of Teaching Pronunciation (Theory and Practice) 2 NAKANO Jiro
Japanese culture and comparative cultural studies Japanese Culture 1 (Discourse on Language & Culture) 2 KOI Atsuko
Japanese Culture 2 (Fundamental Japanese Culture) 2 KOBAYASHI Takehiko
Discourse on Comparative Culture 1 (Japan vs Europe/America) 2 SHIOZAKI Satoshi
Discourse on Comparative Culture 2 (Japan vs Asia) 2 WANG Min
Discourse on Cross-Cultural Interchange 1 (Intercultural Communication) 2 IKEDA Yutaka
Discourse on Cross-Cultural Interchange 2 (International Understanding) 2 MIYAGI Toru
Advanced seminar (thesis guidance) Thesis Research in Japanese Linguistics All the supervising professors
Thesis Research in Japanese Language Education
Thesis Research in Japanese Culture and Comparative Cultural Studies
Common to each field (master’s program) Linguistics (General Linguistics) 2 SAITÔ Yoshio
Phonetics & Phonology 2 WATANABE Tsutomu
Studies in Language Information Processing 2 MIKAMI Akira
Chinese Linguistics 2 ASAI Sumitami
Special Studies in Chinese Linguistics 2 HIRAYAMA Kunihiko
Spanish Linguistics 2 YASUTOMI Yuhei
Language Education (Fundamental Statistics in SLA) 2 HOSAKA Yoshio

≪Notes≫

  • *At least 30 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.

Doctoral Program in Language Education

Topics of doctoral theses

for 2021
  • Japanese Kanji Shapes Analysis & Learning Method for Non-Kanji Background Learners
  • Body Part Terminology and Its Idioms in Japanese :Focusing on Secondary and Tertiary Level Words
  • The Typical Japanese Words with Ambivalence : A General Study
  • Acceptance and substitution of modern medical terms in Japanese – Chinese communications
  • The Acquisition of Word-level Rhythm by Chinese Learners of the Japanese Language -Through the Pronunciation of Katakana Words-
  • A Discussion on the usage and social acceptance of (s)asete itadaku
for 2020
  • A Study on Introductory Expressions of Japanese Language
  • Differences in degree of tension between languages -For Japanese students learning Spanish and Spanish students learning Japanese-

Courses and teachers in the doctoral program (as of April, 2022)

Educational
and research field

Class subjects

Credits

Teachers

English language education English Language Education 1 (The Pedagogy of Teaching English) 2 MIKAMI Akira
English Language Education 2 (The History of English Teaching in Japan) 2 HOSAKA Yoshio
English Language Education 3 (Language Assessment) 2 James SICK
Japanese education Japanese Language Education 1 (Lexical Semantics) 2 CHEN Liwei
Japanese Language Education 2 (The Methodology of Teaching Japanese) 2 NODA Hisashi
Japanese Language Education 3 (The Pedagogical Study of Phonology) 2 KANEDA Tomoko
Linguistics Linguistics 1 (Phonetics & Phonology) 2 SAITO Yoshio
Linguistics 2 (Studies in Discourse Analysis) 2 YAMADA Masamichi
Linguistics 3 (Language and Culture) 2 CHEN Liwei
Linguistics 4 (Word Formation and Phonology) 2 AKUTSU Satoru
Advanced seminars (thesis guidance) Thesis Research in Language Education 2 All the supervising professors

≪Notes≫

  • *At least 10 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.

Purpose and basic policy on educational research