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TSUKUMA Yoshimasa

Department / Course College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science

Academic background
1.	1981/09～1985/12	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Essex University │ Completed Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Linguistics
2.	1980/09～1981/09	Master Course │ Essex University │ Completed Master of Arts
3.	1979/09～1980/09	CNAA(Council for National Academic Awards) in English Studies │ Postgraduate Diploma Course │ Ealing College of Higher Education │ Completed
4.	1978/09～1979/09	CNAA(Council for National Academic Awards) in Modern Chinese │ Postgraduate Diploma Course │ Ealing College of Higher Education │ Completed
5.	1973/04/01～1977/03/31	Department of British and American Studies │ Faculty of Foreign Language │ Kyoto University of Foreign Studies │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2005/09/26 ～ 2006/09/25	Visiting Professor │ │ Australian Catholic University
2.	2003/04/01 ～	Professor │ The Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, │ Ritsumeikan University,
3.	1999/09/26 ～ 2000/09/25	Visiting Professor │ Linguistics and Phonetics │ Cambridge University
4.	1999/09/26 ～ 2000/09/25	Visiting Fellow │ Language and Linguistics │ Essex University
5.	1997/04/01 ～	Professor │ The College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan Universiry,
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Research activities
1.		Community for Innovation of Education and learning through Computers and communication networks (CIEC)
2.		The Japan Association For Language Education and Technology
3.		Kinki Society of Phonetics
4.		The English Phonetic Society of Japan
5.		Phonetic Society of Japan

Qualification and license
1.	1980	Postgraduate Diploma in English Education (CNAA)
2.	1979	Postgraduate Diploma in Modern Chinese (CNAA)
3.	1977	First-Class Junior High School EFL Teacher's License, Second-Class Senior High School EFL Teacher's License

Subject of research
1.	(1)Comparative Study on Prosodic Features among Languages
2.	(2)Japanese Prosody and Teaching Japanese
3.	(3)The Comparative Studies of Language and Culture between Japanese and Chinese
4.	(4)The Comparative Studies of Language and Culture between Japanese and English
5.	(5)Computer Assisted Language Learning

Research summary
Contrastive phonetic study among languages/CALL =Research theme(1)= Phonetic and acoustic characteristics of Japanese, English and Chinese are investigated for the improvement of language education.

Present specialized field
Linguistics and Phonetics (Keyword：Experimental Phonetics, Foreign Language Education, English Phonetics, Japanese Phonetics, Chinese Phonetics, Comparative Studies of Language and Culture (Japanese, English, Chinese))

Books
1.	1995/04	Campus Life at UBC

Papers
1.	2018/03	Relationship between Left and Right Branching Structures and their Prosody --in Case of Japanese Native Speakers and Chinese Learners of Japanese-- │ 6,pp.367-404
2.	2017/12	Commonly Confused English Vowels for Japanese /æ, ʌ, ə, ɜː, ɑː/ --Comparative Studies on Acoustic Features-- │ Studies in Language Science Working Papers Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan UNiversity │ 7,pp.1-20
3.	2016/12	Confusing English Fricatives /f v θ ð/ for Japanese ―Comparative Acoustic Analyses by Spectrogram― │ Studies in Language Science Working Papers │ 6,pp.1-22
4.	2014/12	Vowel Devoicing ―A Comparative Study of Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese― │ Language Science Research Working Papers, the Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University │ 4,pp.25-42
5.	2013/12	Difficult English Sounds of L/R for Japanese learners of English ―Comparison of Acoustic features by Sound-spectrogram― │ Studies in Language Science Working Papers │ 3
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2006/04	The Australian English Accent-- What Gives your English an Aussie Flavour?
2.	1997/03	Supplementary Materials to Tailor CD-ROMs and the Feedback from EFL Students
3.	1997/03	The Development of Original CALL Coursewares Campus Life at UBC
4.	1992/10	On Prosodic Features in Speech:Contrastive Studies between Japanese Standard Chinese
5.	1992/09	On Prosodic Features in Reading a Story in Japanese and Chinese
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Subject
1.	英語Ⅶ(Intermediate)
2.	英語Ⅶ(Intermediate)
3.	英語Ⅷ(Intermediate)
4.	英語Ⅷ(Intermediate)
5.	英語教育学03