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KAMIJO TAKESHI

Department / Course College of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Title / Position Professor

Academic background
1.	～2003/11	Master Course │ TESOL(Teaching English to the Speakers of Other Languages) │ Department of Culture, Communication and Media │ Institute of Education University of London │ Completed MA TESOL
2.	～2002/07	Master Course │ TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language) │ Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics │ University of Reading │ Completed MA TEFL
3.	～1995/07	Master Course │ Business Administration │ Cardiff Business School │ University of Wales, College of Cardiff │ Completed MBA
4.	～1989/03	Department of Foreign Language │ College of Humanities │ Tamagawa University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2013/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Associate Professor │ │

Research activities
1.		The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
2.		The Japan-Britain Association for English Teaching(JABAET)

Subject of research
1.	Evaluation of the theoretical framework and practice on how the English learning concepts‎, EGP, EAP and ESP are practiced in curricula of universities. Conducting and evaluating the cooperative study on teaching study seen from the level of curricula.
2.	Studying how teachers should teach leading strategy in EAP from the position of an external researcher. Examining the relationship between the cognition/creed of teachers and the practice of leading strategy in a qualitative research approach.
3.	Teaching Method of Leading Strategy in EAP and Evaluation of Learning.\ nConducting a qualitative study as a teaching study on learning results through the methods of learning logs, journals, interviewing, think-aloud, and text analysis.

Research summary
I am engaged in a variety of research subjects such as a teaching method and evaluation of reading strategy in EAP, the application of a qualitative research, from a practical research to an external research, and up to a curriculum of college. It is important for students to analytically read texts, summarize them, write the evaluation and compile the subject into a report. Therefore, it is necessary only to simply read the texts as a general purpose but to recognize the text type, understand the paragraph structure and reasoning, analyze the content, check keywords and conjunctive words. After that, it is necessary to write the summary and evaluation. This is a basis to create an assignment and this activity is very important. A reading strategy is one of the methods to effectively handle this kind of learning.\This modes consists of Pre-reading, While-reading and Post-reading steps and comprehensively contains each phase from reading to creating the report. Then, it is also necessary to apply the achievement to the reading class of the EAP course and research the teaching method and learning achievement. Based on this background, I have been continuously researching the reading strategy teaching by applying the strategy to my teaching. Particularly, I cannot directly evaluate the reading strategy learning achievements of the students by examinations and questionnaires. Therefore, I am using the qualitative research methods such as learning log, journal, interview, Think-aloud, and text analysis. Based on the research on the teaching above, I can improve the teaching method by enough understanding the students' learning process and achievements. Furthermore, I am engaged in the research with other faculty members and researchers concerning how the EAP is integrated in the context of various colleges and the reading teaching and learning are performed.

Present specialized field
Foreign language education, Education on school subjects and activities (Keyword：EAP(English for Academic Purposes)、Reading Strategies, Text/Discourse Analysis, Teacher Beliefs and classroom practices, Action Research, Practitioner Research, Curriculum Innovation)

Books
1.	2020/06/20	The changing face of ESP in today’s classroom and workplace │ ,pp.149-162
2.	2013/03	Perfect Shot or the TOEIC test
3.	2012/03	Best Shot or the TOEIC test
4.	2011/03	Strategies and Practice for the TOEIC test
5.	2009/11	Reading for Integrated English Skills
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Papers
1.	2023/03/31	L2 Postgraduate Students' Argumentative Essay Writing: A Review of Genre-based Studies and Directions for Future Research │ Aoyama Journal of Academic Writing Research │ (2),pp.3-12
2.	2023/03/31	L2 Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of Summary Writing and their Emergent Academic Identity Development │ The Ritsumeikan Business Review │ 61 (5),pp.27-40
3.	2022/05/28	'Many arguments’: L2 postgraduate students’ task representations in critical reading and argumentation for MA essay assignments │ International Journal of English for Academic Purposes │ 3,pp.3-19
4.	2022/03/31	Evidence-Based Argumentative Essay Writing: A Review of Previous Studies and Directions of Future Research │ JACET Kansai Journal │ 24,pp.58-73
5.	2021/03/31	L2 Learners’ Argument Building for MA Essay Assignments: Analysis through the Knowledge-telling Strategy │ The Ritsumeikan Business Review │ 59 (5),pp.95-109
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/06/14	The theory and practice nexus in critical writing for argumentative essays: an exploratory study of successful L2 postgraduate students
2.	2024/04/27	Examining L2 doctoral students’ critical writing in qualitative research: the nexus of data analysis, literature reviewing, and argument building
3.	2023/06/16	Examining L2 doctoral students’ argument-building in the processes of qualitative research writing
4.	2023/03/04	L2 doctoral students' argumentation in social justice research
5.	2022/06/09	L2 postgraduate students’ task representations and emergent academic identities in evidence-based argumentative essay writing
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Other research achievements
1.	2015/01/01 ～ 2015/12/31	Final Report for the TOEFL Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program (Educational Testing Service (ETS))

Winning science prize
1.	2014/12	Educational Testing Service TOEFL Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program (TOEFL Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program)