Scholarly and professional activities

Service to the Community

1. Committee Memberships

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)
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