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Book and thesis
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（Last updated : 2025-06-27 12:10:12）

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

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)
2.	2005/05～	Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET)
3.	2011/02～	American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)
4.	2012/09～	British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
5.	2015/04～	Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE)
6.	2021/04～	International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)
7.	2021/04～	Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research (SIETAR JAPAN)
8.	2023/09～	International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
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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
6.	2007/04～2008/03	Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Law Associate Professor
7.	2006/04～2007/03	Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Law Associate Professor
8.	2005/04～2006/03	Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Law Lecturer
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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)
3.	2011/04～2014/03	Comparable corpus and its educational use: A collaboration between Japan and US universities (Key Word : )

■ Book and thesis

1.	Thesis	Navigating the use of "Plain Japanese" as a glocal lingua franca: Perspectives from Japanese university students (Single) 2025/05
2.	Thesis	From Hiroshima to Hawaii: Deepening study abroad experiences through a historical and intercultural education course (Single) 2025/04
3.	Thesis	Japanese as a lingua franca in the Japan-US online conversation project: Findings and implications (Collaboration) 2025/02
4.	Thesis	Japanese as a lingua franca: Exploring communication dynamics and pedagogical insights for L1 speakers (Single) 2024/03
5.	Thesis	L2 Japanese learners’ perception of lingua franca interactions in a virtual “third” space (Collaboration) 2023/08
6.	Thesis	Potential of virtual reciprocal exchange: Japanese students’ self-awareness about their first language and culture (Single) 2023/02
7.	Thesis	Japanese as a Lingua Franca interaction for L1 and L2 speakers in virtual contact situations (Collaboration) 2022/11
8.	Thesis	Virtual Exchange During the Pandemic: A Case of Collaboration Between Japan and Taiwan (Collaboration) 2022/02
9.	Thesis	Remote "virtual" contact situations: Findings from the post-conversation survey and interview (Collaboration) 2021/10
10.	Thesis	Online Conversation Project Between Universities in Japan and the US: Its Rationale and Design for Integrating Research and Pedagogy (Collaboration) 2021/09
11.	Book	Minami, M. (ed.), Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language. "Japanese Native Speakers’ Intuition of ZERO Use: An Account by Centering Theory" (Collaboration) 2007/10
12.	Thesis	Exploring "Glocal Project" - Principles, Practices, and Challenges (Collaboration) 2021/09
13.	Thesis	L1 Japanese Speakers' Intention and Japanese Learners' Confusion in Contact Situations: Implications for Multicultural Co-learning (Single) 2021/02
14.	Thesis	Portraying Students with “Intercultural Competence Can-Do” Survey Results: Implications for International Understanding Curriculum (Collaboration) 2021/02
15.	Thesis	L1 Japanese speakers’ behaviors and awareness in contact situations: A pedagogical implication for multicultural co-learning courses (Collaboration) 2020/09
16.	Thesis	Examining Multicultural Co-learning Interaction in Contact Situations: Findings from a Quantitative & Qualitative Content Analysis (Collaboration) 2019/10
17.	Thesis	Investigating L1 Japanese speakers’ awareness and roles in multicultural co-learning courses (partner language contact situations) (Collaboration) 2018/09
18.	Thesis	Connecting international students to local communities: its effects and issue (Single) 2016/08
19.	Thesis	When do you use pronouns?: An entity coherence approach (Collaboration) 2015/06
20.	Thesis	Detecting patterns of sequences by coding scheme and transcribed utterance information: An analysis of English and Japanese reactive tokens as non-primary speaker’s role (Collaboration) 2014/01
21.	Thesis	A Centering Analysis of a Comparable Learner/Native-speaker Corpus (Collaboration) 2013/01
22.	Thesis	Entity coherence in comparable learner corpora: Seeking pedagogical insights (Collaboration) 2010/11
23.	Thesis	Comparable Local Learner Corpora: Raising Discourse Awareness (Collaboration) 2009/09
24.	Thesis	Diversity of ZEROS in Japanese Discrouse: A Corpus Analysis and a Tool for Language Teachers (Collaboration) 2005/08
25.	Thesis	Theoretical, Technological and Pedagogical Approaches to Zero Arguments in Japanese Discourse: Making the Invisible Visible (Single) 2005/03
26.	Thesis	Understanding Zeros and Coherence in Japanese (Collaboration) 2004/08
27.	Thesis	The Nature of Referent Resolution in Japanese Email (Collaboration) 2003/11
28.	Thesis	Approaches to Zero Adnominal Recognition (Single) 2003/07
29.	Thesis	Automatic Linguistic Analysis for Language Teachers: The Case of Zeros (Collaboration) 2002/08
30.	Thesis	Zero Checker: A CALL Program for Reading and Writing Japanese (Collaboration) 2002/07
31.	Thesis	Visualizing Zeros: A Japanese Learning Aid (Collaboration) 2002/03
32.	Thesis	Centering as an Anaphora Generation Algorithm: A Language Learning Aid Perspective (Collaboration) 2001/11
33.	Thesis	Impact of Internet-Mediated Exchanges on Language Learning and Cross-Cultural Understanding (Collaboration) 2000/10
34.	Thesis	Resolving and Generating Zero Anaphora in Japanese: A Language Learning Aid Perspective (Collaboration) 2000/10
35.	Thesis	The Effectiveness of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Learning Environment: An E-Mail Exchange Project Report (Collaboration) 2000/02
36.	Thesis	Authorable Conversation Simulators for Language Learning (Collaboration) 1998/10
37.	Thesis	Grammar Checking, Diagnostic Testing and Student Modeling (Collaboration) 1998/10
38.	Thesis	Zero Anaphora Resolution in Japanese: A Computational Model for Machine Translation (Single) 1997/12
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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))
6.	2023/08/11	From virtual exchange to sustainable virtual friendship: A case of positive deviance (CASTEL/J 2023)
7.	2023/03/16	“Japanese as a lingua franca” speakers’ linguistic adjustment in utterance types (2023 AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) Annual Spring Conference)
8.	2022/08/12	Japanese as a lingua franca interaction for L1 and L2 speakers in virtual contact situations (CAJLE Annual Conference 2022)
9.	2022/03/19	Significance and potentials of L2 Japanese learners’ contact with L1 speakers in a virtual “third” space (2022 AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) Annual Spring Conference)
10.	2022/01/29	Raising L1 and C1 awareness in reciprocal virtual exchange activities (8th International Intercultural Competence Conference (ICC 2022))
11.	2021/11/27	(SIETAR Japan 36th Annual Conference)
12.	2021/10/02	(New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS 2021))
13.	2021/09/09	A local learner corpus approach to JLF interaction in "virtual" contact situations (British Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference (BAAL 2021))
14.	2021/08/19	Remote “virtual” contact situations: Findings from the post-conversation survey and interview (CAJLE Annual Conference 2021)
15.	2021/06/18	Making remote contact situations available for interaction research and pedagogy (IALLT 2021)
16.	2020/11/24	Project-based online multicultural course: Visible behaviors, invisible values and a visible outcome (International Language Days (IDLs) 2020)
17.	2019/08/07	Examining Multicultural Co-learning Interaction in Contact Situations: Findings from a Quantitative & Qualitative Content Analysis (CAJLE Annual Conference 2019)
18.	2019/03/21	JLF interaction in contact situations: L1 Japanese speakers' intention and Japanese learners' confusion (2019 AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) Annual Spring Conference)
19.	2018/08/22	Investigating L1 Japanese speakers’ awareness and roles in multicultural co-learning courses (partner language contact situations) (CAJLE Annual Conference 2018)
20.	2018/08/09	Integrating incoming international students into the campus and local community - What German and Japanese universities can learn from each other (2018 SIETAR Japan World Congress)
21.	2018/08/04	Analyzing the roles of Japanese as a Lingua Franca speakers in contact situations: Seeking insights for multicultural co-learning (Venezia ICJLE 2018)
22.	2018/03	Collecting and analyzing Japanese conversation data in native and contact situations for multicultural co-learning course design and management (2018 AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) Annual Spring Conference)
23.	2017/08	Combining CLIL and ELF in Multicultural Project Courses for Mixed L1 Students: Current Practice and Student Perceptions (JACET 44th Summer Seminar (English as a Lingua France in the globalized world: Research and implications for practice)
24.	2017/08	Cross-Campus Learning: Connecting international students and high school students (CAJLE Annual Conference 2017)
25.	2017/06	Investigation on awareness of speakers of English and Japanese as lingua francas: Through interactional experiences in multicultural co-learning environment in a Japanese university (10th Anniversary Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 10))
26.	2016/08	Connecting international students to local communities: its effects and issue (CAJLE 2016 Annual Conference)
27.	2014/09	When do you use pronouns?: An entity coherence approach (47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (Learning. Working and Communicating in a Global Context))
28.	2014/08	The role of reactive tokens in storytelling as feedback for lexical choices in subsequent storywriting (AILA World Congress 2014)
29.	2014/08	“Culture Swap”: A survey-inspired modular digital course for CMS (AILA World Congress 2014)
30.	2014/08	(The JACET 53rd International Convention)
31.	2014/03	A Corpus/Survey-Based Investigation into Pronominalization: An Entity Coherence Approach (Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014))
32.	2013/09	Detecting patterns of sequences by coding scheme and transcribed utterance information: An analysis of English and Japanese reactive tokens as non-primary speaker’s role (46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL 2013))
33.	2012/09	A centering analysis of a comparable learner/native-speaker corpus (BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) 2012 Conference)
34.	2012/09	Investigating spontaneous speech for language learning: an analysis of the interrelationship among topic-chains, clause-units and moves in dialogue (BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) 2012 Conference)
35.	2010/06	Japanese language learners' use of event anaphora in written discourse (ASPAC Conference 2010, Panel "CONTEXT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE GRAMMATICAL AND DISCOURSE COMPETENCE")
36.	2008/03	On what basis do Japanese native speakers use zero anaphora? : A theoretical and an empirical account using Centering Theory (American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2008 Conference)
37.	2006/03	Japanese Native Speakers’ Intuition of ZERO Use: An Account by Centering Theory (5th Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ2006))
38.	2005/03	Instructing reading comprehension for advanced learners of Japanese language: zero anaphora　and topic continuity (Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 2005)
39.	2004/04	Zero anaphora analyses to access reading difficulty in Japanese text (4th Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ2004))
40.	2004/03	Understanding cohesion in Japanese text: Zero anaphora as invisible cohesive ties (ATJ Seminar 2004 (Association of Teachers of Japanese))
41.	2003/08	Zero Detector: A Teaching/Learning Aid for Zeros and Coherence in Japanese (PAAL 2003 (the 8th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics))
42.	2003/08	(CAJLE 2003)
43.	2003/03	Zero Checker: A CALL Program that Enhances Comprehension and Writing Skills for Japanese Zero Anaphora (ATJ Seminar 2002 (Association of Teachers of Japanese))
44.	2002/04	Analysis of Japanese Zero Anaphora and Its Application to a CALL Program (Zero Checker) (3rd Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ2002))
45.	2002/03	Visualizing Zeros: A Japanese Learning Aid (言語処理学会　第8回年次大会)
46.	1995/05	Instructors’ cross-cultural effectiveness as a model for predeparture and reentry programs (JALT Southwest Region International Conference on Language Teaching)
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■ Winning science prize

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
6.	Global Community English ⅠⅠ
7.	Global Community English ⅠⅠⅠ
8.	Global/Regional Studies B (Hiroshima and Hawaii)
9.	Multicultural Project in Japanese (Language and Culture)
10.	Multicultural Project in Japanese (Online Exchange)
11.	Politics / Public Administration Studies Ⅶ(case study)
12.	Politics / Public Administration Studies Ⅶ(Verbal Comunication)
13.	Study Abroad in Asian Countries
14.	Study Abroad in Asian Countries
15.	Study Abroad in Asian Countries
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■ Educational ability

● Practice example of education method
1.	2020/04～	Promoting online "virtual" intercultural communication

■ Announcement about the education

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
2.	2024/04 Contribution Type : 単著