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（Last updated : 2025-03-13 09:51:13）　

MIYAO Mari

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.	～2017/08	Doctorial Course │ Department of Second Language Studies │ University of Hawai'i │ Completed │ PhD in Second Language Studies

Business career
1.	2022/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University

Research activities
1.	2021 ～	The Society for Human Sentence Processing
2.	2020 ～	The Japan Association of College English Teachers
3.	2017 ～	The Japanese Society for Language Sciences
4.	2015 ～	The Japan Second Language Association

Qualification and license
1.		International Baccalaureate Professional Development, DP Theory of Knowledge Cat 1
2.		Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

Present specialized field
Linguistics, Foreign language education (Keyword：Discourse Processing,Sentence Processing,Second Language Acquisition,Critical Thinking)

Papers
1.	2025/03	Grammatical role, thematic role, and coherence relation in the L2 production of discourse │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ 60 (4),pp.33-48
2.	2023/03	Does the Common Test measure the thinking skills necessary for the 21st century? │ Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan │ 34,pp.81-96
3.	2023/03	L2 learners' use of linguistic and visual discourse information during the production of English referring expressions │ Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture │ 34 (3),pp.119-133
4.	2021/03	Collecting time-sensitive data in a web-based psycholinguistic experiment │ Studies in English Linguistics and Literature │ 37,pp.1-14
5.	2018/07	Difference in referential-expression preferences between Japanese and Chinese readers │ IEICE Technical Report │ 118 (163),pp.83-86
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/12/04	A Global Standard for Critical Thinking Skills Required in Higher Education
2.	2021/03/28	The use of linguistic and visual discourse information in the L2 production of referring expressions
3.	2018/07/28	Difference in referential-expression preferences between Japanese and Chinese readers
4.	2018/06/17	On integrating syntax and discourse in the L2 production of English referential expressions
5.	2017/04/01	Influence of competitors on the L2 production of English referential expressions
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2013 ～ 2016	The Processing of Referential Expressions in Discourse in L2 English │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ National Science Foundation (USA), Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2.	2012 ～ 2013	The Processing of Referential Expressions in Discourse by L2 Learners of English │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ LANGUAGE LEARNING Dissertation Grant