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Scholarly and professional activities

Service to the Community

1. Committee Memberships

5/2024 – 8/2024: Coordinator of the Reading, Writing, and Literacy (RWL) Strand for Proposal Submissions, American Association of Applied Linguistics

6/2021 -12/2023: Book Award Committee member, American Association of Applied Linguistics

8/2018 - 10/2019: Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on Situating Strategy Use (October, 13-15, 2019, Osaka, Japan)

5/2014 – 8/2014: Coordinator of the Assessment and Evaluation Strand for Proposal Submission, American Association of Applied Linguistics

7/2011 - 7/2011: The Standard Setting Session Member for TOEFL ITP-CEFR (Common European Framework for Languages), Educational Testing Service

1/2010 - 2/2010: ILTA (International Language Testing Association) Best Article Award Committee for 2008, memberd

9/2007 - 5/2011: TOEFL Committee of Examiners member

1/2005 - 12/2006: International Language Testing Association, member-at-large

1/2001 - 12/2002: International Language Testing Association, Nominating Committee member

1/2000 - 3/2021: Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), The Institute for International Business Communication, Technical Panel member

6/1994 - 1/1996: Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), Educational Testing Service, Technical Panel member

2. Editorial/Advisory Board Memberships

10/2012 - present: Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, International Advisory Board Member

12/2011 - present: Language Testing in Asia, Editorial Board member

1/2011 - 7/2019: Studies in Language Sciences, Associate Editor

1/2006 - present: Journal of Second Language Writing, Editorial Board member

1/2004 - 12/2022: Language Testing, Editorial Board member

1/2003 - 12/2009: Language Assessment Quarterly, Editorial Board member

3/2002 - 3/2005: TESOL Quarterly, Editorial Board member

3. Conference Committee Memberships

10/2014 - 1/2015: Special Public Lecture at Nagoya City University, Organizing Committee, Chair

1/2006 - 9/2007: Symposium on Second Language Writing, Organizing Committee local chair

1998 - 12/2006: Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Steering Committee member

4. Journal Submission Reviews

2020: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

2017, 2020: Modern Language Journal

2015: International Journal of Multilingualism

2014: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

2007, 2013: Applied Linguistics

2010: International Journal of English Studies, reviewer

2010, 2013, 2015: Language Assessment Quarterly, reviewer

1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003 - 2004, 2008, 2010: Language Learning, reviewer

2009, 2018: TESOL Quarterly, reviewer

2001: Journal of Pragmatics, reviewer

5. Conference Abstracts and Grant Proposals Reviews

2019: Georgetown University Round Table, 2020

2016: Second Language Research Forum

2014: American Association of Applied Linguistics (Coordination of Conference Abstract Readers: Assessment Strand)

2012: Second Language Research Forum

2010: TOEFL Program Research Grant, proposal reader

2007, 2009 - 2013, 2015: Symposium on Second Language Writing, abstract reader

2007 - 2011: Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, abstract reader

6. Promotion Reviews

2011: University of British Columbia, Canada

2010: Kanda University of International Studies, Japan

7. Consultancies

4/2009 - 3/2011: The Nagoya Customs Office, External Consultant

Theses and dissertations supervised

PhD dissertations

2015: Peer review use in the EFL writing classroom

2014: Emergent leaders and small groups in the EFL classroom

2012: Peer review use in the EFL writing classroom

2011: A study of EFL argumentative strategies: Factors that affect the choice of organizational pattern

2006: Setting multiple standards on performance assessment for foreign language proficiency certification

2003: Learnability of explicit and implicit metaknowledge in second language writing

2001: Relationships among strategy use, foreign language aptitude, and second language proficiency: A structural equation modeling approach

MA theses

2010: An investigation of the alternation of adjective comparative forms in Indian and British Englishes

2010: An investigation of the alternation of adjective comparative forms in Indian and British English

2008: The effects of a short-stay abroad on Japanese EFL students’ L2 learning motivation and other affective factors

2008: The effects of a short-stay abroad on Japanese EFL students’ L2 learning motivation and other affective factors

2006: A study of gratitude expressions in the English of Japanese native speakers: "Thank you" and "Sorry"

2004: Developing a study-abroad program and evaluation system

2003: Recollections and hopes: The life-long English-as-a-second-language learning process of elderly Japanese, with special attention to motivation and historical/political/social factors

2002: A study of Japanese EFL students' strategies for listening comprehension tests and the development of these strategies: A comparison of high and low proficiency students

2001: The second language acquisition of Japan Sign Language: An introspective approach

Awards and grants

2019: Nagoya City University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Special Grant for the Promotion of Research (¥50,000)

2016 - 2018: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Grant No. 17K02977 (¥3,200,000)

2017 - 2019: Abe Fellowship granted by Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) (¥4,100,000)

2012 - 2016: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Grant No. 24520666 (¥3,800,000)

2010: Language Learning Small Grants Research Program: Granted to presenters in the Roundtable organized by Professor Ilona Leki (University of Tennessee) on “Cross-Pollinations in L2 Writing Research across Continents” held at the Symposium on Second Language Writing at the University of Murcia, Spain, May 2010 ($ 3,000)

2008 - 2011: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Grant No. 20520533 (¥4,500,000)

2006 - 2007: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan
Research Grant No. 18520461 (¥2,000,000)

2002 - 2005: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan
Research Grant No. 14560311 (¥3,500,000)

2002: Ichihara International scholarship foundation
Research Grant (¥500,000)

2001: Honorable Mention in the Journal of Second Language Writing Award for best article published in 2000

1997 - 1998: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture: Japan
Research Grant No. 09680289 (¥3,000,000)

1996: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture: Japan
Research Grant No. 08780203 (¥1,100,000)

1993: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture: Japan
Research Grant No. 05858039 (¥800,000)

1992: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture: Japan
Research Grant No. 04858084 (¥900,000)

1990: TESL/Applied Linguistics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
The Nida award (Best qualifying paper of the year in Applied Linguistics)

1984 - 1985: Rotary International Foundation
Full scholarship to study at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

1980 - 1981: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture: Japan
Full scholarship to study at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan