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KITADE Keiko

Department / Course College of Letters Language and Communication Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Human Sciences
3.	Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration Center for MONODZUKURI Qualitative Research

Academic background
1.		Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ 東アジア言語・文学研究科 │ Graduate School, University of Hawaii │ Completed │ Ph.D (Applied linguistics)
2.		Master Course │ 東アジア言語・文化研究科 │ Graduate School, Columbia University │ Completed │ MA (Japanese language pedagogy)
3.		Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ 東アジア言語・文学研究科 │ Graduate School, University of Hawaii │ Completed │ MA (Applied linguistics)
4.		│ Columbia University M.A.
5.		│ University of Hawaii Ph.D
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Business career
1.	2016/04/01 ～	Professor │ │
2.	2007/04/01 ～ 2016/03/31	Associate Professor │ │
3.	2022/08/01 ～ 2022/08/05	Lecturer │ │
4.	2022/08/19 ～ 2022/08/23	Lecturer │ │
5.	1999/01/01 ～ 2002/12/31	Lecturer │ │

Research activities
1.		Association for Language and Cultural Education
2.		The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Languege
3.		Intercultural Education Society of Japan
4.		American Association for Applied Linguistics
5.		The Japan society of developmental phychology
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Subject of research
1.	Second language acquisition, Second language learning, Intercultural communication, Computer-Mediated Communication, Discourse analysis, Second language teacher development, Qualitative research

Research summary
Foreign Languages and the Second Language, and Education for Language Teachers, Required in the Globalized Society I have conducted my study by focusing on developing competencies of the foreign languages, the second language and language teachers, required in the globalized society. I take note of the study that focuses on the social changes, or diversification and multicultural symbiotic societies, that could not be addressed only by traditionally cognitive-oriented research, and also take note of the sociocultural approach that consider learning as a social practice. By conducting analysis with this approach from the viewpoints of formation and transformation of identity in the social context, and advancing the analysis method, I want to contribute to language learning and teacher training in the new era. Furthermore, I want to reconsider the significance of 'practice' considered as the field of simple knowledge acquirement or application such as studying abroad and practicing, and to lead to redesign various programs. http://culture-learning.com/

Present specialized field
Applied Linguistics, Japanese linguistics, Japanese language pedagogy (Keyword：Japanese Language Pedagogy, Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition, Discourse analysis, Computer-Mediated Communication, Intercultural communication, Teacher development, Qualitative research)

Books
1.	2023/03/02	Chapter title: “No Need to Invest in the Japanese Language?”: The Identity Development of Chinese Students in the English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Program of a Japanese College.
2.	2020/01	Chapter title: Pragmatics of Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Book title:The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Carol Chapelle (Ed.)
3.	2019/10	The educational assessment for international co-learning │ ,pp.279-304
4.	2017/05	Chapter title: Do experiences of teaching abroad impact identity transformation in second-language teachers? Book title: Readings in Language Studies, International Society for Language Studies │ ,pp.15-38
5.	2014/09	Chapter title: Offline Peer Dialogue in Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Activities for L2 Teacher Development Book title:Engaging Language Learners through Technology Integration: Theory, Applications, and Outcomes │ ,pp.116-137
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Papers
1.	2022/12/01	The Typology of Intercultural Exchange: The Trans-languaging Activity Aimed at Creating an Inclusive Society │ ,pp.245-258
2.	2022/04/25	Teacher Education in Japanese Language Education:Examining the activities of the Japanese Language Teacher Educator Network │ ,pp.81-95
3.	2019/02	The power of narrative:Telling stories as social practices │ Studies of Language and Cultural Education │ 16,pp.1
4.	2018/01	Re-evaluating process of Japanese student's study abroad experiences in China and Korea: Linguistic capital and studying in non-English speaking countries │ The Ritsumeikan Business Review │ 56 (5),pp.115-135
5.	2016/08	Beyond the framework of the life story interview in Japanese language education │ Literacies │ 19 (1),pp.52-65
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/06/10	Construction of an alternative ‘future I-position’ through semiotic meaning-making: Re-analysing the interviews of a college student in career transition
2.	2019/07/27	Developing service-learning courses for Japanese language teacher education: Civic engagements and language teacher education
3.	2019/06/21	Reconceptualizing language education from the perspective of learners’ life transitions through the study of transnational students
4.	2019/03/03	The development of Trajectory Equifinality Approach (TEA) in Applied Linguistics
5.	2018/11/17	The overview of narrative research in Japanese language education
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Works
1.	2023/01/28	TEA in Japanese Language education
2.	2020/09/03	Intercultural co-learning for the online courses (Kansai University, Osaka)

Teaching achievements

●Presentation about Teaching

1.	2019/08 ～ 2019/08	Research Consortium for the Sustainable Promotion of International Education (RECSIE) Workshop instructor

Message
1.	Ritsumeikan University, College of Letters & Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Professor