Kyoko Masuda
Associate Professor of Japanese & Linguistics
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Dr. Kyoko Masuda is on leave AY 2018-2019. She received her Ph.D from the University of Arizona in 2002, and joined Georgia Tech in 2004, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics in 2010. She is a specialist in Japanese Discourse, Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, and Sociocultual Theory, as shwon in her published journal articles in Journal of Pragmatics, Modern Language Journal, New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature, Sophia Linguistica, Nihongo Kyooiku, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, CLS, Sophia Linguistica and Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Her co-authored journal articles also apper in Second Language Research, Language Learning, Language Science, Sophia Linguistica, and High Desert Conference in Linguistics.
She served as Linguistics Certificate Program Advisor from 2010-2018 Her current teaching includes Intermediate Japanese, Discourse and Grammar, Applied Japanese Linguistics, Critical Readings in Japanese Arts and Culture, Extensive and Intensive Reading in Japanese, Introduction to Linguistics, and Applications in Linguistics. She is interested in creating new courses for Linguistics as well as Japanese at Georia Tech.
She has edited Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory: Applications to Language Teaching (2015) by Mouton de Gruyter, and Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese Pedagogy: A Usage-based Approach to Language Learning and Instruction (2018) by Mouton de Gruyter.
Interests
- Japanese
- Linguistics
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
- Education
- Language Acquisition
Courses
- JAPN-2001: Intermediate Japanese I
- JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
- JAPN-4165: Crit Rdgs Jpn Cult/Arts
- JAPN-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- JAPN-4750: Japn Discourse & Grammar
- JAPN-4780: Jpn Applied Linguistics
- LING-2001: Intro To Language I
- LING-2100: Intro to Linguistics
All Publications
Books
- Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese Pedagogy: A Usage-based Approach to Language Learning and Instruction
2018
- Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory: Applications to Foreign/Second Language Teaching
September 2015
Journal Articles
- Pair-work dynamics: Stronger students’ engagement in languaging for learning the Japanese polysemous particles ni/de and their learning
In: Sociocultural Theory and Language LearningApril 2018
- Style-shifting in Student-Professor Conversations
In: Journal of Pragmatics 101, 101-117 [Peer Reviewed]August 2016
- Applying cognitive linguistics to teaching Japanese polysemous particles
2013
- Acquiring interactional competence in a study-abroad context: Japanese language learners' use of the interactional particle ne
2011
- Morphological congruency and the acquisition of L2 morphemes
2011
- Influence of L1 on the acquisition of Japanese mora timing by native speakers of English and Korean
2009
- Learners' use of Japanese interactional particles in student-teacher conversation
2009
- The discourse function of the so-called Japanese dative subject construction
2007
- Applied cognitive linguistics: The state of the arts and new directions
2006
- Acquisition of English /r/ and /l/: A longitudinal study of Japanese learners of English
- Development of the ability to lexically encode novel L2 phonemic contrasts
Chapters
Conferences
- A usage-based account of the Japanese adverb yahari and yappa(ri) in spoken discourse
2009
- Iwayuru yokaku shugo jyutsugo no ninchigengogakuteki koosatsu
2008
- Japanese postpositions ni and de: Cognitive linguistic approach
2007
- The pedagogical implication of cognitive linguistics: The case of Japanese locative particles
1997
- On German and Japanese dative construction
Other Publications
- A usage-based approach to presenting the polysemous particles ni and de in JFL instruction
2018
- Advancing cognitive linguistic approaches to Japanese learning and instruction
2018
- Future directions for informed language pedagogy from cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory
2018
- The second language acquisition of challenging Japanese locative particles, ni and de: A usage-based and discourse approach
2018
- Book review: ‘Cognitive-functional approaches to the study of Japanese as a second language’
2017
- Cognitive linguistics and Japanese pedagogy: Introduction
September 2015
- Schematic diagram use and languaging quality in learning Japanese polysemous particles 'ni' and 'de'
September 2015
- Nihongo gakushuusha no buntai shifuto ni tsuiete
2010
- Eigo bogowasha ni yoru sokuon shuutoku no sutorategii
2005
- Nihongo gakushuusha no bashokaku ni to de no goyoo
2004
- Lexical development of Korean learners of Japanese: a case study of Japanese consonant quantity
- Student perception of a combined usage-based and sociocultural-theory approach to learning Japanese polysemous particles