Yanagisawa Akifumi

Affiliation

Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences

Official title

Assistant Professor

ORCID

0000-0002-7769-5758

URL

https://researchmap.jp/akifumiyanagisawa

Research fields


Foreign language education
Education on school subjects and activities

Research keywords


Second Language Acquisition
Vocabulary Acquisition
TESOL
Applied Linguistics

Research projects


The effect of awareness on vocabulary learning	2023-08 -- 2026-03	Akifumi Yanagisawa	University of Tsukuba/Tsukuba Basic Research Support Program (Type S)	2,559,000Yen
Effects of electronic glosses on reading comprehension and vocabulary learning	2021-08 -- 2023-03	Akifumi Yanagisawa	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (a.k.a KAKENHI)	2,340,000Yen

Career history


2016-09 -- 2020-12	The University of Western OntarioFaculty of Education, Applied LinguisticsResearch Assistant
2017-09 -- 2017-12	The University of Western OntarioFaculty of EducationPart-time lecturer
2019-09 -- 2019-12	The University of Western OntarioFaculty of EducationPart-time lecturer
2021-04 -- 2022-09	Tokyo University of ScienceInstitute of Arts and SciencesFull-time lecturer (tenured)
2022-10 -- (current)	University of TsukubaFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesAssistant Professor

Academic background


2016-09 -- 2020-12	University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education The PhD program in the field of Applied Linguistics

Degree


2021-02	Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics)	University of Western Ontario

Licenses and qualifications


2016-03	teacher’s license (Senior High School)
2016-03	teacher’s license (Junior High School)
2013-03-31	First-class teacher's licenses for elementary school

Academic societies


2015-07 -- 2019-03	The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
2015 -- (current)	The Chubu English Language Education Society (CELES)
2015 -- (current)	Kantokoshinetsu Association of Teachers of English, KATE
2016 -- (current)	Japan Second Language Acquisition Research Forum

Honors & Awards


2015-05	Exemption of half of my educational loan by the Japanese Student Services Organization (JASSO) for achieving high academic performance
2019-07	SLRF 2019 Student Travel Award
2020-03	Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award

Articles

How effective is second language incidental vocabulary learning? A meta-analysis
Webb Stuart; Uchihara Takumi; Yanagisawa Akifumi
LANGUAGE TEACHING/56(2)/pp.161-180, 2023-01
新しい日常における英語語彙指導(1)：カリキュラム計画の観点から
中田達也; 柳沢明文; 江口政貴
English Education (Taishukan Shoten)/69(9)/pp.74-75, 2020-11
The Effects of Repetition on Incidental Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies
Takumi Uchihara; Stuart Webb; Akifumi Yanagisawa
Language Learning/69(3)/pp.559-599, 2019-09-12
Lessons From Western’s Symposium on Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
Takumi Uchihara; Akifumi Yanagisawa
Contact, 2017-04
The Effects of Receptive and Productive Word Retrieval Practice on Second Language Vocabulary Learning
YANAGISAWA Akifumi
KATE Journal/30(0)/pp.139-152, 2016
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Works

Teaching


2023-10 -- 2024-02	Specialized Field Experiences: English Language Education IIB	University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2024-02	Specialized Field Experiences: English Language Education-2IIB	University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08	Specialized Field Experiences: English Language Education-2IIA	University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07	Research in English Language Education IVA	University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12	Research in English Language Education IVB	University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08	Field Experiences: English Language Education IIA	University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2024-02	Field Experiences: English Language Education IIB	University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08	Specialized Field Experiences: English Language Education IIA	University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07	Research in English Language Education IIA	University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12	Seminar on Thesis Research II	University of Tsukuba.
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(Last updated: 2023-08-23)