Research Areas and Published Papers

I'm presently interested in how to utilize the latest technology including the Internet for teaching both English and different cultures effectively and also to find out more about adjustment difficulty or culture shock of the Japanese in a differentculture.

My published articles for the past decade are as follows:

  • "Eigo gakushu no dogizuke o unagasu dejitaru sutoori teringu purojekuto (A digital storytelling project to promote students’ motivation to learn English). 2012 PC Conference: A collection of papers, CIEC, 89-92."
  • "iPads in the classroom: How can they be used for learning or teaching EFL?" Abstracts and Short Papers of GLoCALL2012 Conference, Beijing, China, October 18-20, 2012、GLoCALL2012 CD-ROM、2012年10月、4p.
  • "Bijinesu eigo komyunikeeshon ni tokkashita e-Learning saito no kouchiku no kokoromi (Developing an e-Learning site focusing on Business English Communication)." JeLA 2012 nendo gakujyutsu koenkai ronbunshu (JeLA 2012 Conference Collected Papers), 63-68.
  • "Ibunka Komyunikeeshon noryoku o takameru apuroochi: LMS to Blended Learning no Katsuyo (An approach to enhance intercultural communication proficiency utilizing an LMS and blended learning). Proceedings of Language Education Expo 2013, JACET Educational Issues SIG, 69-70.
  • "e-Learning In Yoshida, H. &, Nozawa, K. (eds.) (2014). Saishin ICT o Katsuyoushita Watashi no Gaikokugo Jyugyo (My Foreign Language Teaching Utilizing the Latest ICT). Tokyo: Maruzen Planet.
  • " Enhancing participatory culture and increasing digital literacy (DL) through digital storytelling (DST) in an English as a foreign language program " Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Lanaguge Education and Information Science, Studies in Language Science, 6, 25-39.
  • " Eizo kopasu o toriireta Nihongo kyoiku no kokoromi: kotowari hyogen “ii” no oshiekata (A trial of teaching Japanese using video corpus: samples of teaching refusal expression “ii”). "Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University, Studies in Language Science Working Papers,, 6, 23-31.
  • "Learning English Idioms With a Web-Based Educational Game," Journal of Educational Computing Research, First published online (October, 2017), https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633117729292.
  • "Implement the Latest Technologies, "Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Mathematics, Science, Language, Economics in Education October 2019, UMMY, Solok, Indonesia. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fc5Ec9ueVLSRZDoVzakpew2EkxfjF6TR/view