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
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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 |
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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 Degree Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s degree program (as of April, 2020)
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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 | 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
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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 |
||
|
Common to each field |
At least 2 credits |
||
| Research guidance | Writing a master’s thesis | ||
Master (Language Education)
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Doctoral Degree Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s degree program (as of April, 2020)
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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 | 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)
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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 | 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.
