GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Master’s Program in English Education
Topics of master’s degree theses (for 2019)
- A Qualitative Study of Online Filipino English Conversation Teachers
- A Study of Prepositions: Seeking for an Effective Instruction
- Cognitive and Affective Variables of EFL Students in China:With a Focus on the PE Major Students
- An Exploratory Study of Anxiety, Motivation, and Willingness to Communicate in a Japanese High School
- The Productive and Receptive Knowledge of Collocations by Japanese EFL Learners with and without study-abroad experience
- College Students’ Perceptions and Preferences for Feedback and its Effects on Their Writing Performance
- An Analysis of Smartphone Applications for English Learning
Credits and Degrees
Master’s Degree Program |
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Requirements for completion |
Number of credits to be obtained |
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Educational and research field |
Specialization field |
At least 6 credits |
At least 30 credits in total |
Related field (elective) |
At least 6 credits each |
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Common to each field |
At least 2 credits |
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Research guidance | Writing a master’s thesis |

Master (Language Education)

Doctoral Degree Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s degree program (as of April, 2020)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
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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 | KOMA Osamu | |
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 | Not offered | |
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 | OZAKI Shigeru | |
English Communication 3 (Contrastive Study of English and Japanese Expressions) | 2 | KOJIMA Kazue | |
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 | |
English communication | 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 | ー | 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 Degree program in Japanese Education
Topics of master’s degree theses (for 2019)
- How to place poses in the Japanese language by Japanese language learners who are native speakers of Vietnamese
- The Expression of Prohibition in Linguistic Landscape:with a Perspective of Grammatical Structure and Pragmatics
- A Comparative Study of Face Consciousness between Chinese and Japanese
- A Contrastive Study of Asking back in Japanese and Chinese ―With a Focus on Interjections―
- An Analysis of Japanese Weather Verbs from a Perspective of Cognitive Semantics:A Case Study of “Kumoru”
- Consideration about fluctuation of the Japanese honorific expression in view of over usage of the honorific suffix “ -san ” after organization names etc.
- The Significance of Overseas Teaching Experience in Japanese Language Teacher Training Programs :With a focus on students who participated in studies in Mongolia
- A Contrastive Study of Collocations Based on Corpora: The Case of a Japanese-Chinese Homograph “Hōmen/Fāngmiàn(方面)”
- Semantic analysis of synonymous compound verbs “-komu” and “-ireru” using a corpus:With special focus on “kakikomu” and “kakiireru”
- About“Plain Japanese”:A comparison of writings by non-native speakers of Japanese
- A contrastive Study on Japanese Chinese-Based Adjectival Verbs and Chinese Adjective Verbs :With a Focus on Homographs’ Emotive Meanings
- A Study of Chinese Students About Non-use of the Japanese Transfer Verbs‘giving’and ‘receiving’
Credits and Degrees
Master’s Degree Program |
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Requirements for completion |
Number of credits to be obtained |
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Educational and research field |
Specialization field |
At least 6 credits |
At least 30 credits in total |
Related field (elective) |
At least 6 credits each |
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Common to each field |
At least 2 credits |
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Research guidance | Writing a master’s thesis |

Master (Language Education)

Doctoral Degree Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s degree program (as of April, 2020)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
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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 | ENDO Hiroko | |
Japanese Linguistics 4 (Phonetics) | 2 | SAITO Yoshio | |
Japanese Linguistics 5 (Letters & Writing Systems) | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
Japanese Linguistics 6 (History of Japanese) | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
Japanese Linguistics 7 (Corpus) | 2 | OGINO Tsunao | |
Japanese education | Teaching of Japanese | 2 | ENDO Hiroko |
Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 1 (Theory) | 2 | NAKAMURA Kaori | |
Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 2 (Practice) | 2 | OKOSHI Takao | |
Discourse on Japanese Language Teaching Materials | 2 | ENDO Hiroko | |
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 | HIRAYAMA Shiho | |
〃 | 2 | YAMAGUCHI Takamasa | |
Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 2 | 2 | ENDO Hiroko | |
〃 | 2 | HIRAYAMA Shiho | |
Methods of Teaching Pronunciation (Theory and Practice) | 2 | NAKANO Jiro | |
Japanese culture and comparative cultural studies | Japanese Culture 1 (Discourse on Language & Culture) | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takao |
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 Degree Program in Language Education
Topics of doctoral dissertations
for 2019
- A Study on Japanese Adverbs:Focusing on the Meanings and Usages of “nakanaka”
- A Cognitive Analysis of Conjunctive Form”te”
- The Production of Special Moras by Chinese Learners of the Japanese Language
-With a Focus on Phrases ,and Sentences- - A Diachronic Study on the Use of -tsutsuaru
for 2018
- Clasification of emotion expression : from direct expression to objective expression
- Cross-Sectional Study on Accent Guidance in Japan Language Education -Incorporating the Viewpoints of National Language Education and Dialectology-
- A Study on the teaching method focusing on Listening and Generation of Japanese prosody -Through the use of law pass filter and humming-
Courses and teachers in the doctoral program (as of April, 2020)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
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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 | ENDO Hiroko |
Japanese Language Education 2 (The Methodology of Teaching Japanese) | 2 | NODA Hisashi | |
Japanese Language Education 3 (The Pedagogical Study of Phonology) | 2 | Not offered | |
Linguistics | Linguistics 1 (Phonetics & Phonology) | 2 | SAITO Yoshio |
Linguistics 2 (Studies in Discourse Analysis) | 2 | YAMADA Masamichi | |
Linguistics 3 (Language and Culture) | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takao | |
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.