GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Master’s Program in English Education
Topics of master’s theses (for 2016)
- Pragmatic Transfer in English by Japanese Native Speakers: Refusals Performed in English and Japanese
- A Corpus Analysis of Preposition Errors by Chinese University Students
- An Empirical Study on the Attitudes Towards Teaching English Through English With a Focus on the Chinese High School Students
- Mental Decline and Denial in The Old Man and the Sea
- A Study of the Effects of Video on Listening Comprehension
Credits and Degrees
Master’s Program |
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Requirements for completion |
Number of credits to be obtained |
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Educational and research field |
Specialization field |
At least 6 credits |
At least 30 credits in total |
Related field (elective) |
At least 6 credits each |
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Common to each field |
At least 2 credits |
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| Research guidance | Writing a master’s thesis | ||
Master (Language Education)
Doctoral Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2017)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
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| English language education | English Teaching 1 (Teaching of English) | 2 | HOSAKA Yoshio |
| English Teaching 2 (English Language Assessment) | 2 | OZAKI Shigeru | |
| English Teaching 3 (English Teaching Methodology) | 2 | KANO Noriko | |
| English Teaching 4 (English Teaching Materials) | 2 | HIDAI Shigeyuki | |
| English Teaching 5 (Teaching of English in the Classroom) | 2 | ROSENKJAR PATRICK | |
| English Teaching 6 (Second Language Acquisition) | 2 | HASEGAWA Ayako | |
| English Teaching 7 (Teaching English to Children) | 2 | IMURA Keiko | |
| Linguistics and English Linguistics | Linguistics (Contrastive Linguistics) | 2 | SHARPE Peter |
| English Linguistics 1 (English Grammar) | 2 | ROSENKJAR PATRICK | |
| English Linguistics 2 (History of English) | 2 | KOMA Osamu | |
| English Linguistics 3 (English Phonology) | 2 | WATANABE Tsutomu | |
| English Linguistics 4 (English Semantics) | 2 | YAMADA Masamichi | |
| English Linguistics 5 (English Pragmatics) | 2 | YAMADA Masamichi | |
| English Linguistics 6 (English) | 2 | ASAO Kojiro | |
| English communication | English Communication 1 (Communication) | 2 | HILL William Thomas |
| English Communication 2 (Education for International and Intercultural Understanding) | 2 | OZAKI Shigeru | |
| English Communication 3 (Contrastive Study of English and Japanese Expressions) | 2 | SHIOZAKI Satoshi | |
| English Communication 4 (Audio-visual ＆Computer Instruction) | 2 | MIKAMI Akira | |
| English Communication 5 (Communication in English 1) | 2 | ROSENKJAR PATRICK | |
| English Communication 6 (Communication in English 2) | 2 | ROSENKJAR PATRICK | |
| English communication | Special Studies in English Communication Ability 1 | 2 | HILL William Thomas |
| Special Studies in English Communication Ability 2 | 2 | HILL William Thomas | |
| Special Studies in English Communication Ability 3 | 2 | SHARPE Peter | |
| Special Studies in English Communication Ability 4 | 2 | SHARPE Peter | |
| Advanced seminar (thesis guidance) | Thesis Research in English Language Education | ー | All the supervising professors |
| Thesis Research in (English) Linguistics | |||
| Thesis Research in English Communication | |||
| Common to each field (master’s program) | Linguistics (General Linguistics) | 2 | Not offered |
| Phonetics & Phonology | 2 | WATANABE Tsutomu | |
| Studies in Language Information Processing | 2 | MIKAMI Akira | |
| Chinese Linguistics | 2 | ASAI Sumitami | |
| Special Studies in Chinese Linguistics | 2 | HIRAYAMA Kunihiko | |
| Spanish Linguistics | 2 | URITANI Nozomu | |
| Language Education (Fundamental Statistics in SLA) | 2 | HOSAKA Yoshio |
≪Notes≫
- *At least 30 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.
Master’s Program in Japanese Education
Topics of master’s theses (for 2016)
- Study of Japanese potential and intransitive verbs and transitive verbs
- The change of the Sino-Japanese word tekitō －A general view from the Meiji era to the present day－
- Study of Culture Quota From Japanese・Japanese Situation Education －Through Comparison, Examination of Japanese Teaching Institution in Japan－
- Feasibility of the culture and language fusion type Japanese education by anime －The animated film “5 Centimeters Per Second” as a model
- A Contrastive Study of the Expression of Ability in Japanese and in Vietnamese －A Focus on Errors in the Japanese Expression of Ability made by Vietnamese Students－
- The Meaning Transition and Lexical Category Comparison between Japanese and Chinese of “chūi/zhuyi” －Focusing on the Modern Period－
- Katakana and its pronunciation problems －with a focus on advanced native Chinese speakers－
- Japanese conversation teaching for a natural Japanese conversation －Regarding the present condition and issues of the Japanese conversation teachings in Chinese university－
- The study of the Japanese accent using meaningless words
- A Research on the Effect of the Support Given Under the Coordination of Universities for International Students on Decreasing Second Language Anxiety of Short-term Exchange Students”
- A study on the motivations of learning Japanese －With focus on Chinese international students in Japan－
- Analysis of Japanese Verbs ‘kiru’ and ‘kireru’ －Focus on the Viewpoint of Cognitive Semantics－
- A study of the basic usage of shiyou
- A study on a Japanese Verb “omou” －“omou” and “kangaeru” Used as Predicative Verb”－
Credits and Degrees
Master’s Program |
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Requirements for completion |
Number of credits to be obtained |
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Educational and research field |
Specialization field |
At least 6 credits |
At least 30 credits in total |
Related field (elective) |
At least 6 credits each |
||
Common to each field |
At least 2 credits |
||
| Research guidance | Writing a master’s thesis | ||
Master (Language Education)
Doctoral Program |
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Doctor (Language Education)
Courses and teachers in the master’s program (as of April, 2017)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Japanese linguistics | Japanese Linguistics 1 (Grammar & Syntax 1) | 2 | ISHIKAWA Mamoru |
| Japanese Linguistics 2 (Grammar & Syntax 2) | 2 | ISHIKAWA Mamoru | |
| Japanese Linguistics 3 (Lexicon & Semantics) | 2 | ENDO Hiroko | |
| Japanese Linguistics 4 (Phonetics) | 2 | KIMURA Masayasu | |
| Japanese Linguistics 5 (Letters & Writing Systems) | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
| Japanese Linguistics 6 (History of Japanese) | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
| Japanese Linguistics 7 (of Japanese) | 2 | YAMAZAKI Makoto | |
| Japanese education | Teaching of Japanese | 2 | ENDO Hiroko |
| Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 1 (Theory) | 2 | ISHIKAWA Mamoru | |
| Japanese Language Teaching Methodology 2 (Practice) | 2 | NAKAMURA Kaori | |
| Discourse on Japanese Language Teaching Materials | 2 | ENDO Hiroko | |
| Evaluation in Japanese Language Teaching | 2 | KONDO Masumi | |
| Theories of Counseling (for Cross-Cultural Strategies) | 2 | MIYAGI Toru | |
| Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 1 | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takao | |
| 〃 | 2 | YAMAGUCHI Takamasa | |
| Special Studies in Japanese Communication Ability 2 | 2 | ENDO Hiroko | |
| 〃 | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
| Methods of Teaching Pronunciation (Theory and Practice) | 2 | KIMURA Masayasu | |
| Japanese culture and comparative cultural studies | Japanese Culture 1 (Discourse on Language & Culture) | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takao |
| Japanese Culture 2 (Fundamental Japanese Culture) | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takehiko | |
| Discourse on Comparative Culture 1 (Japan vs Europe/America) | 2 | SHIOZAKI Satoshi | |
| Discourse on Comparative Culture 2 (Japan vs Asia) | 2 | WANG Min | |
| Discourse on Cross-Cultural Interchange 1 (Intercultural Communication) | 2 | IKEDA Yutaka | |
| Discourse on Cross-Cultural Interchange 2 (International Understanding) | 2 | MIYAGI Toru | |
| Advanced seminar (thesis guidance) | Thesis Research in Japanese Linguistics | – | All the supervising professors |
| Thesis Research in Japanese Language Education | |||
| Thesis Research in Japanese Culture and Comparative Cultural Studies | |||
| Common to each field (master’s program) | Linguistics (General Linguistics) | 2 | Not offered |
| Phonetics & Phonology | 2 | WATANABE Tsutomu | |
| Studies in Language Information Processing | 2 | MIKAMI Akira | |
| Chinese Linguistics | 2 | ASAI Sumitami | |
| Special Studies in Chinese Linguistics | 2 | HIRAYAMA Kunihiko | |
| Spanish Linguistics | 2 | URITANI Nozomu | |
| Language Education (Fundamental Statistics in SLA) | 2 | HOSAKA Yoshio |
≪Notes≫
- *At least 30 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.
Doctoral Program in Language Education
Topics of master’s theses
for 2016
- Establishment and significance of “Teaching Methods of Constructive Talking” －Focusing on teaching of talking in Taiwan during the Japanese Government Period－
- The Usages of “teiru” －Focusing on “State” and “Information presented for demonstration”－
for 2015
- The structure of the core image and its usage of case particle “を” －Mainly on three basic uses－
- Studies on Postpositional Particle “で” －Deep case and its Comprehensive Functions of Meaning－
- Comparative Study on Japanese & Chinese Passive forms of Intransitive Verbs and Emotional Verbs
for 2014
- The Study on Japanese Language Education and Pestalozzi principle of the Early Colonial Period in Taiwan －Over IZAWA Shuji and YAMAGUCHI Kiichiro－
- The changing of foreign Japanese language learner’s motivation and its factors －The case study of Japanese language training program at Indonesia－
- A study on the ways of using dimensional adjectives with different viewpoint －focusing on ookii, tiisai and hiroi ,semai and takai, hikui and hutoi, hosoi－
- Acquisition of the Japanese long Vowels by Georgian Learners : Pronunciation Guidance by Verbo-Tonal (VT) Method
Courses and teachers in the doctoral program (as of April, 2017)
Educational |
Class subjects |
Credits |
Teachers |
|---|---|---|---|
| English language education | English Language Education 1 (The Pedagogy of Teaching English) | 2 | MIKAMI Akira |
| English Language Education 2 (The History of English Teaching in Japan) | 2 | HOSAKA Yoshio | |
| English Language Education 3 (Language Assessment) | 2 | OZAKI Shigeru | |
| Japanese education | Japanese Language Education 1 (Lexical Semantics) | 2 | ENDO Hiroko |
| Japanese Language Education 2 (The Methodology of Teaching Japanese) | 2 | ISHIKAWA Mamoru | |
| Japanese Language Education 3 (The Pedagogical Study of Phonology) | 2 | KIMURA Masayasu | |
| Linguistics | Linguistics 1 (Applied linguistics) | 2 | OZAKI Shigeru |
| Linguistics 2 (Studies in Discourse Analysis) | 2 | YAMADA Masamichi | |
| Linguistics 3 (Language and Culture) | 2 | KOBAYASHI Takao | |
| Linguistics 4 (Word Formation and Phonology) | 2 | AKUTSU Satoru | |
| Advanced seminars (thesis guidance) | Thesis Research in Language Education | 2 | All the supervising professors |
≪Notes≫
- *At least 10 credits are required to complete the program in addition to receiving necessary educational guidance.
