Kyoko Masuda
Director of Japanese Program, Associate Professor of Japanese & Linguistics
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Dr. Kyoko Masuda serves as Program Director of Japanese Language from 2020. 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 East Asian Pragmatics, 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 Language and Sociocultural Theory, Second Language Research, Language Learning, Language Science, Sophia Linguistica, and High Desert Conference in Linguistics.
She served as Linguistics Program Advisor from 2010-2018 Her teaching includes Intermediate Japanese, Discourse and Grammar, Applied Japanese Linguistics, Critical Readings in Japanese Arts and Culture, Introduction to Linguistics, and Applications in Linguistics. She is interested in creating new courses for Japanese and Linguistics.
She has co-edited Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory: Applications to Language Teaching (2015) by Mouton de Gruyter, and edited Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese Pedagogy: A Usage-based Approach to Language Learning and Instruction (2018) by Mouton de Gruyter. She is currently working on book project entitled "Concept-Based Language Instruction: A Revolutionary Usage-Based Pedagogy for Teaching Japanese" with her collaborators.
Interests
- Japanese
- Linguistics
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
- Education
- Language Acquisition
Courses
- JAPN-2001: Intermediate Japanese I
- JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
- JAPN-3001: Advanced Japanese I
- JAPN-3693: Japan Today
- JAPN-3694: Conversation Practicum
- JAPN-3700: Sustain/Societal Changes
- JAPN-4165: Crit Rdgs Jpn Cult/Arts
- JAPN-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- JAPN-4695: Japanese Internship
- JAPN-4750: Japn Discourse & Grammar
- JAPN-4780: Jpn Applied Linguistics
- JAPN-6080: Japn Applied Lings Grad
- JAPN-6500: Intercultural Seminar
- 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
Date: 2018
- Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory: Applications to Foreign/Second Language Teaching
Date: September 2015
Journal Articles
- Learning Japanese interactional particles through a usage and concept-based instructional approach
In: East Asian Pragmatics 8(1) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Discourse functions and pitch patterns of the Japanese interactional particle yo in student-professor conversation
In: Journal of Japanese Linguistics 37, 2. 1-29. [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Teaching subjective construal and related constructions with SCOBAs: Concept learning as a foudation for Japanese language development
In: Sociocultual Theory and Language Learning 8. 1. 35-67 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Pair-work dynamics: Stronger students’ engagement in languaging for learning the Japanese polysemous particles ni/de and their learning
In: Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning 5.1 46-71 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2018
- Style-shifting in Student-Professor Conversations
In: Journal of Pragmatics 101, 101-117 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2016
- Applying cognitive linguistics to teaching Japanese polysemous particles
Date: 2013
- Acquiring interactional competence in a study-abroad context: Japanese language learners' use of the interactional particle ne
Date: 2011
- Morphological congruency and the acquisition of L2 morphemes
Date: 2011
- Influence of L1 on the acquisition of Japanese mora timing by native speakers of English and Korean
Date: 2009
- Learners' use of Japanese interactional particles in student-teacher conversation
Date: 2009
- The discourse function of the so-called Japanese dative subject construction
Date: 2007
- Applied cognitive linguistics: The state of the arts and new directions
Date: 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
- Student perception of a combined usage-based and sociocultural-theory approach to learning Japanese polysemous particles
Date: 2018
Conferences
- Jendaa hyoogen o kangaeru: Manga to nichijoo kaiwani arawareta bunmatsu hyoogen no hikaku bunseki o tooshite
In: Proceedings of Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Manga ni tsukawareru onomatoope: Manga o tanoshimu tame no onomatope shidoo o kangaeru
In: The 16th Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe Pedagogy Symposium [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Teaching construal: Toward better integration of a usage-based approach to sociocultural theory to teaching difficult items to JSL learners
In: Proceedings of the Twentith Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- A usage-based account of the Japanese adverb yahari and yappa(ri) in spoken discourse
Date: 2009
- Iwayuru yokaku shugo jyutsugo no ninchigengogakuteki koosatsu
Date: 2008
- Japanese postpositions ni and de: Cognitive linguistic approach
Date: 2007
- The pedagogical implication of cognitive linguistics: The case of Japanese locative particles
Date: 1997
- On German and Japanese dative construction
Other Publications
- A usage-based approach to presenting the polysemous particles ni and de in JFL instruction
Date: 2018
- Advancing cognitive linguistic approaches to Japanese learning and instruction
Date: 2018
- Future directions for informed language pedagogy from cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory
Date: 2018
- The second language acquisition of challenging Japanese locative particles, ni and de: A usage-based and discourse approach
Date: 2018
- Book review: ‘Cognitive-functional approaches to the study of Japanese as a second language’
Date: 2017
- Cognitive linguistics and Japanese pedagogy: Introduction
Date: September 2015
- Schematic diagram use and languaging quality in learning Japanese polysemous particles 'ni' and 'de'
Date: September 2015
- Nihongo gakushuusha no buntai shifuto ni tsuiete
Date: 2010
- Eigo bogowasha ni yoru sokuon shuutoku no sutorategii
Date: 2005
- Nihongo gakushuusha no bashokaku ni to de no goyoo
Date: 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