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EGUCHI Akiko

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

Title / Position Professor

Academic background
1.	2012/04～2016/11	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ The Development of International Communication (DICOM) │ Graduate School of International Development │ Graduate School of Nagoya University │ Completed Doctor of Philosophy
2.	2008/04～2011/03	Master Course │ English Education │ The Postgraduate School of Education │ Aichi University of Education │ Completed Master of Education
3.	1983/04～1987/03	Department of Humanities, Japanese Literature │ Faculty of Letters │ Doshisha University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2023/04 ～	Professor │ College of Letters, International Studies and English Communication Program │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2020/04 ～ 2023/03	Professor │ │ College of Nagoya Women's University
3.	2016/04 ～ 2020/03	Professor │ Liberal Education │ Aichi University of Technology

Committee and society
1.	2021 ～	Japan Association of College English Teachers JACET Prize Selection Committee
2.	2023 ～	Japan Association of College English Teachers, Chubu Chapter Research Planning Committee
3.	2017 ～	Language Education & Technology Reviewer
4.	2021	International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Reviewer
5.	2016	Journal of Child Language Reviewer
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Research activities
1.		Japan Association of College English Teachers
2.		Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET)
3.		Japanese Society for Language Sciences(JSLS)
4.		Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
5.		Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools (JES)
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Qualification and license
1.	2011/03/31	Advanced Class Teacher Certificate for Junior High School and High School （English）
2.	2010/03/31	First Class Teacher Certificate for Elementary School
3.	1987/03/31	First Class Teacher Certificate for Junior High School and High School （Japanese）

Subject of research
1.	A longitudinal study of English speaking ability in elementary and junior high school students.
2.	English syntactic knowledge in Japanese elementary school students and its measurement method.
3.	The development of English productive skills in Japanese learners of English.

Research summary
The development of linguistic knowledge and its application among Japanese learners of English as a foreign language My research aims to clarify the process of acquiring English as a second and foreign language among Japanese learners ranging from elementary school students to university students, recently with a focus on younger learners. We intend to apply the findings to English education. The foundation of this research is based on ascertaining the kind of language knowledge (such as vocabulary and grammar) and language skills (i.e., the four language skills) learners currently possess and understanding their interrelationships as well as how they develop. As a premise of the investigation, consideration of task design for data collection and analysis methods, and verification of the measurement and evaluation methods’ validity and reliability are also important. In Japan, foreign languages (i.e., English) have become a formal subject beginning in the upper grades of elementary school. According to foreign language education curriculum guidelines, the goal is to develop communication skills consistently from elementary school to junior high school and high school. Knowledge of sentence structure (here, word order and word combinations) is important to support communication, along with vocabulary knowledge, and elementary school students are required to acquire basic knowledge and skills that can be used in actual communication. On the other hand, explicit English grammar instruction is not provided in elementary school, and students are expected to notice and internalize the differences and regularities between English and Japanese by repeatedly listening to and speaking English. In such a learning environment, we are currently conducting a longitudinal survey of the actual situation regarding what kind of knowledge elementary school students acquire, how they can use it in communication, and what they can and cannot do in English after they start learning it at junior high school. We intend to accumulate the research findings toward the construction of a foreign language acquisition model.

Present specialized field
second language acquisition, English language education (Keyword：second language acquisition,English language education,foreign language teaching methodology,elementary school English education)

Papers
1.	2022/08	English auditory-phonological and visual-orthographic word recognition in Japanese elementary school students │ Language Education & Technology │ ,pp.51-76 (Sole-authored)
2.	2022/03	Assessing speaking performance: A comparative study of fifth and sixth grade EFL students using rubrics. │ JES Journal │ ,pp.118-133 (Sole-authored)
3.	2022/01	The Development of Noticing and Metalinguistic Knowledge of English Sentence Structures in Japanese Elementary School Students: A Longitudinal Study │ Journal of the Chubu English Language Education Society │ ,pp.1-8 (Sole-authored)
4.	2021/03	Elicited imitation task as a tool for measuring English sentential knowledge in Japanese elementary school students: The validation and qualitative analysis │ JES Journal │ ,pp.111-126 (Sole-authored)
5.	2021/03	English receptive vocabulary size among elementary school students: Assessing the effectiveness of intentional learning in classroom practices │ Journal of the Nagoya Women's College │ ,pp.205-216 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/09/01	What do elicited imitation tasks for young EFL learners measure? (European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 32)
2.	2023/07/08	A longitudinal study of the relationship between elicited imitation performance and linguistic knowledge in young EFL learners (The 24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences)
3.	2023/07/08	Development of IPSyn definition files based on processability theory: Toward an assessment of the syntactic development of English as a second language (The 24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2023))
4.	2023/03/19	Relationship between L2 listening ability, mean length of perceptual run, and sequential knowledge of language (American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)2023)
5.	2022/09/25	Is the Syntactic Development of English as a Second Language Different Between Spoken and Written?: Comparison of Syntactic Development Using IPSyn (The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 23rd Annual International Conference(JSLS 2022))
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2023/04 ～ 2028/03	A longitudinal study of English speaking ability in elementary and junior high school students: Toward the construction of a foreign language acquisition model │ Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
2.	2020/04 ～ 2025/03	A study on the development of English production ability of Japanese learners │ Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
3.	2019/04 ～ 2023/03	The development of syntactic knowledge in Japanese EFL elementary school students: A longitudinal study using elicited imitation tasks. │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
4.	2017/04 ～ 2021/03	Relationship between L2 listening ability and mean length of perceptual run as an indicator of phonological working memory │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
5.	2016/04 ～ 2019/03	Early syntactic development in Japanese EFL elementary and junior high school students: A cross-sectional analysis of speech production in communicative contexts │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2012/11 ～ 2014/10	Fundamental research on developmental sequences in English grammar to cultivate Japanese with English abilities. │ Research by External Competitive Fund

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30758602

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B000249065