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HAYASHI Masato

Department / Course College of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Title / Position Professor

Academic background
1.		│ Osaka University of Foreign Studies PhD in Language and Culture
2.		│ The University of Birmingham MA in TESL/TEFL
3.		│ The University of Arizona MA in TESL
4.		Department of English Language │ Faculty of Foreign Languages │ Osaka University of Foreign Studies │ Graduated
5.		College of Business Administration │ Ritsumeikan University │ Graduated
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Business career
1.	2009/04 ～	Professor │ │

Research activities
1.		The Japan Association of College English Teachers
2.		The Japan Second Language Association
3.		Association for Integrated Studies of Language and Society, Osaka University of Foreign Studies

Subject of research
1.	(1)Acquisition of English polysemous words by Japanese learners of English
2.	(2)Acquisition of English functional categories by Japanese learners of English

Research summary
A research on English-language acquisition by Japanese learners A research on the factors concerning English-language acquisition by Japanese learners. In recent years, I have been focusing on the "Acquisition of English Polysemic Words for Japanese Learners (prepositions and basic verbs)" as a central subject. [Research Subject (1) Outline] I have been engaged in the research mainly on the language transfer at a concept level within the framework of "Language Transfer" and "Prototype Theory" since 2000. From now on, I would like to verify my hypothesis that "The transfer is caused by the perceptive similarity between the mother tongue at a concept level and the target language" that I wrote in my book published in 2008 by the research for English language learners whose mother tongues are not Japanese. [Research Subject (2) Outline] I started to research the acquisition of determiner phrases (DP) and tense phrases (TP) by Japanese learners of English in 2008. I would like to explain the difference of optionality (selectability and variability) when producing DPs and IPs from the viewpoint of difference of functional category between Japanese language and English language.

Present specialized field
Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Education, Education on school subjects and activities (Keyword：Second Language Acquisition, Language Transfer, Prototype Theory, Polysemous word, Functional Categories, Features)

Books
1.	2008/09	Second Language Acquisition of English Prepositions │ (Sole-authored)

Papers
1.	2023/02	The Perception of the Verbs “Hold” and “Keep” by Japanese Learners of English │ 立命館経営学 │ 61 (5) (Sole-authored)
2.	2014/01	The Perception of the English Preposition "Through" by Japanese Learners of English │ 52 (4/5),pp.125-143 (Sole-authored)
3.	2013/03	On Perception of the Verb "Give" by Japanese Learners of English │ 24 (3),pp.159-174 (Co-authored)
4.	2010/02	DP Acquisition of Japanese Learners of English as a Second Language │ The Annals of Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University │ (49),pp.85-109 (Co-authored)
5.	2009/02	Conceptual Transfer in Second Language Acquisition │ 岐阜聖徳学園大学教育実践科学研究センター紀要（英語学論説資料43号-6に採録） │ (8),pp.213-223 (Sole-authored)
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