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
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Master’s 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 |
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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)
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Doctoral Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2022)
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Educational |
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 | 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 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 on「shitaggate」「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
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Master’s Program |
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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)
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Doctoral Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2022)
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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 | 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)
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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 | 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.
