The Applied Linguistic Research Chair advances linguistic research through the application of various related sciences and technologies, and applies the results of this research to language education. As the name of the course suggests, “application” is the keyword of the research. In addition, both at the entrance and the exit of the research, the window is wide open to the outside world.
Faculty members' research interests include: 1) research on higher education (teaching methods, evaluation, quality assurance, and professional development); 2) research on the acquisition of Japanese as a second language, Japanese language education, and writing instruction; 3) language research and research on brain mechanisms of second language acquisition from a brain science approach; 4) second language acquisition research and bilingual education; 5) second language vocabulary acquisition research and meta-analytic research on second language acquisition; 6) research on second language acquisition and bilingual education; and 7) research on second language acquisition and bilingual education. education, 5) Contrastive linguistic and linguistic typological research on syntax and semantics based on functionalist and cognitivist theories of language, 6) Second language vocabulary acquisition research and meta-analytic second language acquisition research.
The faculty members of the Applied Linguistics Research Chair are involved in language education at Tohoku University in Japanese, English, and other languages, and are committed to applying the results of their research to education and to providing feedback from education to research. The Chair will open up new horizons in applied language research by closely linking language research and education.
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