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  TAKEI Mitsuko
   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies
   Professor
■ Present specialized field
●Specialized field
Linguistics, Japanese linguistics, Foreign language education 
●Keyword
discourse analysis, lingua franca, intercultural communication, computational linguistics, natural language processing, corpus 
●The main research themes
1. Discourse/interaction analysis in contact situations 
2. Multicultural collaborative learning and lingua francas 
3. Analysis of native speaker/non-native speaker (written and spoken) corpus 
4. Virtual intercultural exchange 
5. Application of computational linguistics theories and techniques to second langugage education 
●Capable of joint research and research consultation content
■ Academic background
1. 2001/04~2005/03 Hiroshima City University Graduate School, Division of Information Science 〔Doctoral course〕 Completed
■ Research activities
1. 2003/11~ Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Link
2. 2005/05~ Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET) Link
3. 2011/02~ American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Link
4. 2012/09~ British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Link
5. 2015/04~ Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE) Link
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■ Business career
1. 2022/04~ Hiroshima Shudo University Vice President for Global and Local Engagement
2. 2018/04~ Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Global and Community Studies Professor
3. 2014/04~2018/03 Hiroshima Shudo University International Affairs Center Director
4. 2010/04~2014/03 Hiroshima Shudo University Academic Affairs Center Deputy director
5. 2008/04~2018/03 Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Law Professor
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■ Research Field
1. 2023/04~2025/03  Plain Japanese for intercultural collaborative learning: Potentials and issues  (Key Word : )
2. 2020/04~2025/03  Discourse studies of contact and native situations for the use of Japanese as a lingua franca in an international co-learning environment  (Key Word : International co-learning, discourse analysis, contact situation, lingua franca) Link
3. 2011/04~2014/03  Comparable corpus and its educational use: A collaboration between Japan and US universities  (Key Word : ) Link
■ Book and thesis
1. Thesis Navigating the use of "Plain Japanese" as a glocal lingua franca: Perspectives from Japanese university students (Single) 2025/05 Link
2. Thesis From Hiroshima to Hawaii: Deepening study abroad experiences through a historical and intercultural education course (Single) 2025/04 Link
3. Thesis Japanese as a lingua franca in the Japan-US online conversation project: Findings and implications (Collaboration) 2025/02 Link
4. Thesis Japanese as a lingua franca: Exploring communication dynamics and pedagogical insights for L1 speakers (Single) 2024/03 Link
5. Thesis L2 Japanese learners’ perception of lingua franca interactions in a virtual “third” space (Collaboration) 2023/08 Link
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■ Academic conference presentation
1. 2025/06/26 Bridging cultures online: Japanese student volunteers share insights from tech-enabled language partnerships with diverse adult learners (8th Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT 8) Conference)
2. 2025/02/25 Navigating the use of "Plain Japanese" as a glocal lingua franca: Perspectives from Japanese university students (5th Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2025))
3. 2025/01/03 From Hiroshima to Hawaii: Deepening study-abroad experiences through historical and intercultural education (10th IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii (IICE Hawaii 2025))
4. 2024/03/03 Journaling journeys: Insights from positive deviants on effective reflective practices for study abroad (Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 2024)
5. 2024/01/03 Japanese as a lingua franca: Exploring communication dynamics and pedagogical insights for L1 speakers (9th IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii (IICE2024))
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■ Winning science prize
1. 2001/09 Best Paper Award, Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING) 2001
■ Subject
1. Basic Seminar
2. Cross-cultural Understanding
3. Experiential Learning
4. Experiential Learning
5. Global Community English Ⅰ
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■ Educational ability
● Practice example of education method
1. 2020/04~ Promoting online "virtual" intercultural communication
■ Announcement about the education
1. 2024/02
Intercultural peacebuilding education with the Hiroshima-Hawaii connections
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) The University of Arizona
9th International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence (ICC 2024)
Contribution Type : 単独
■ Developed teaching materials, textbooks, reference books
1. 2023/04
Contribution Type : 単著