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TANIMURA MIDORI

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Associate Professor

Academic background
1.	2004 Degree Acquisition	Doctorial Course │ Studies in Language and Society │ Graduate School of Language and Society │ Osaka University of Foreign Studies │ Completed PhD in Graduate School of Language and Society

Business career
1.	2020/04/01	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, │ Ritsumeikan University,
2.	2012/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	│ Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, │ Kyoto University　of Foreign Studies,
3.	2006/04/01 ～ 2012/03/31	Assistant professor │ Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, │ Kyoto University of Foreign Studies

Committee and society
1.	2021/06/03 ～	Technical Committee on Thought and Language
2.	2017/04 ～ 2021/03	The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences Planning committee
3.	2012/04 ～ 2016/03	The Kansai English Language Education Society Director

Research activities
1.		Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education（CAJLE）
2.		Japanese Association for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
3.		The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
4.		The Pragmatics Society of Japan

Subject of research
1.	Functions of paralinguistic information in task achievement dialogue
2.	Interaction in English as a Lingua Franca: An analysis of goal-oriented multicultural, multiparty corpus

Research summary
Applied linguistics My research interests focus on multimodality in L2 leaners’ interaction and language education. In particular, my research includes English learners’ corpus in phraseological aspects, grammar, pragmatics and discourse of spoken language as well as gestures. This is interdisciplinary research with experts in various fields such as engineering, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. To meet the challenge of rapid globalization, learners, especially those who want to conduct business internationally, need to develop these skills and to be aware of rapid change and diversity in workplace in Japan. Therefore, the analysis of multimodal interactional corpus (including a group of second language learners from Asia, Europe as well as Japan) that I am currently constructing is unparalleled research that provides objective and quantitative data. I am also interested in teaching English vocabulary and idioms. My co-author and I proposed a systematic way of learning idiom expressions using the concept of cognitive linguistics in a monthly magazine called Eigo kyoiku by Taishukan Publisher in 2018.

Present specialized field
Foreign language teaching and learning, Educational research, English linguistics (Keyword：applied linguistics, English as a lingua franca, ethnography, interaction analysis, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, multiculturalism)

Papers
1.	2026/06/26	Unexpected Turns in AI Conversations: Designing for Adaptive Language Learning │ JCSSE 2026 │ PaperID: 1571271404
2.	2026/04/01	Knowledge Through Dialogue: Duoethnography at the Crossroads of Information Technology and Qualitative Inquiry │ IEICE ESS Fundamentals Review │ ,pp.248-259
3.	2026/03/05	Repetition, Anticipation, and Imagination - Emergent Meaning in English Interaction Among Children and Adults at Home in a Japanese EFL Context - │ IEICE Technical Report. │ 125 (392),pp.34-39
4.	2025/05/23	Enhancing EFL Speaking Skills with AI-Powered Word Guessing: A Comparison of Human and AI Partners │ MDPI │ 16 ((6)),pp.427
5.	2025/03/07	Analyzing the Process of Joint Decisions in English As A Lingua Franca Speakers’ Conversations in Performing LEGO Block Tasks │ IEICE Technical Report. │ 124 (417),pp.54-59
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2026/09/02	Beyond verbal dominance: Multimodal translanguaging and strategic silence in ELF interactions
2.	2026/08/27	Making Sense Together With LEGO: Multimodal Paths to Mutual Ground in Task-Based ELF Interaction
3.	2026/08/18	Bridging Schools and Local Communities: A Collaborative Study on School Communication Accessibility for Diverse Families in Osaka
4.	2026/07/03	Task-based ELF corpora: Multimodal insights into evolving interaction in collaborative work
5.	2025/03/05	[invited talk] How to Do Things with Words and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
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Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2026/07/31 ～ 2027/03/31	Supporting Educators and Learners in the Age of AI: Professional Development and AI Enhanced Learning Tools (PJT number: GPSP-26115) │ Joint Research inside the organization
2.	2024/08 ～ 2025/03/31	Fostering students’ independent and collaborative learning for R2030 through curriculum enhancement using generative AI（PJT number: GPSP-24G088） │ Joint Research inside the organization │ R2030 グラスルーツ実践支援制度 (Keyword：探究学習・育成デジタル・DX・AI 共同・連携・交流ダイバシティ＆インクルージョン（D&I）研究)

Subject
1.	Non-verbal Communication
2.	英語初級 102
3.	英語初級 102
4.	英語初級 103
5.	英語初級 103
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Activity in society
1.	2021 ～ 2023	Reviewer for JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research