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TANIMURA MIDORI

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Associate Professor

Academic background
1.	2004 Degree Acquisition	Doctorial Course │ Studies in Language and Society │ Graduate School of Language and Society │ Osaka University of Foreign Studies │ Completed PhD in Graduate School of Language and Society

Business career
1.	2020/04/01	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, │ Ritsumeikan University,
2.	2012/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	│ Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, │ Kyoto University　of Foreign Studies,
3.	2006/04/01 ～ 2012/03/31	Assistant professor │ Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, │ Kyoto University of Foreign Studies

Committee and society
1.	2021/06/03 ～	Technical Committee on Thought and Language
2.	2017/04 ～ 2021/03	The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences Planning committee
3.	2012/04 ～ 2016/03	The Kansai English Language Education Society Director

Research activities
1.		European Second Language Association
2.		Japanese Association for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
3.		The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
4.		The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
5.		The Pragmatics Society of Japan

Subject of research
1.	Functions of paralinguistic information in task achievement dialogue
2.	Interaction in English as a Lingua Franca: An analysis of goal-oriented multicultural, multiparty corpus

Research summary
Applied linguistics My research interests focus on multimodality in L2 leaners’ interaction and language education. In particular, my research includes English learners’ corpus in phraseological aspects, grammar, pragmatics and discourse of spoken language as well as gestures. This is interdisciplinary research with experts in various fields such as engineering, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. To meet the challenge of rapid globalization, learners, especially those who want to conduct business internationally, need to develop these skills and to be aware of rapid change and diversity in workplace in Japan. Therefore, the analysis of multimodal interactional corpus (including a group of second language learners from Asia, Europe as well as Japan) that I am currently constructing is unparalleled research that provides objective and quantitative data. I am also interested in teaching English vocabulary and idioms. My co-author and I proposed a systematic way of learning idiom expressions using the concept of cognitive linguistics in a monthly magazine called Eigo kyoiku by Taishukan Publisher in 2018.

Present specialized field
Foreign language teaching and learning, Educational research, English linguistics (Keyword：applied linguistics, English as a lingua franca, ethnography, interaction analysis, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies)

Papers
1.	2025/05/23	Enhancing EFL Speaking Skills with AI-Powered Word Guessing: A Comparison of Human and AI Partners │ MDPI │ 16 ((6)),pp.427
2.	2025/03/07	Analyzing the Process of Joint Decisions in English As A Lingua Franca Speakers’ Conversations in Performing LEGO Block Tasks │ IEICE Technical Report. │ 124 (417),pp.54-59
3.	2024/03/04	Silent Pause Dynamics in Task-Based Conversations: A Proficiency-Based Analysis of L2 Instructors and Builders │ IEICE Tech. Rep. │ 123,pp.34-39
4.	2021/06/30	A Pragmatic Analysis of Interactions among Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca on a LEGO Task: Exploring the functions of other-initiated repairs in ELF communication │ Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan │ (16),pp.129-136
5.	2021/03/14	Question/answer adjacency pairs in task-oriented interactions: Analyzing paralinguistic cues of emotion │ ,pp.18-23
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/03/05	[invited talk] How to Do Things with Words and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
2.	2024/09/13	Exploring Accommodation Strategies in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Task-Based Interactions: A Study of ELF Collaboration Using LEGO Blocks
3.	2023/03/11	Attempts at establishing uniformity in transcriptions of audio/video task-oriented dialogu: Concerning overlapping talk
4.	2021/08/20	Learning to use English in the era of globalization: The case of international students on a LEGO task
5.	2020/11/18	A Pragmatic Analysis of Interactions among Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca on a LEGO Task: Exploring the functions of other-initiated repairs in ELF communication
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Activity in society
1.	2021 ～ 2023	Reviewer for JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research