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Associate Professor & Applied Linguistics researcher at the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Kansai University.

Osaka, Japan
Joined July 2023
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Thrilled to share that my colleague Dr. Taichi Yamashita (@jpinknsi) and I have just published a paper in Language Teaching Research. We investigate how the L1 can be harnessed for L2 article learning and what guided induction might add to instruction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Dr. Hossein Nassaji’s talk at Kansai University just started.
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I wouldn’t have expected anything less! Huge congrats, Atsushi! 👏
I’m deeply grateful to be included in Elsevier’s updated science-wide author database for 2025 single-year impact. In Languages & Linguistics, I was ranked 173rd among 25,930 researchers when self-citations were excluded, placing me in the top 0.67%! This recognition reflects the support of my colleagues, co-authors, students, and everyone who has read, cited, or engaged with my work. Thank you all for your support! elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.…
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Matt Lucas retweeted
The final event of SLRF 2026 is a plenary talk by Yuichi Suzuki, titled “‘Timing’ matters when ‘time’ is fixed: Optimizing L2 learning in and beyond the foreign language classroom”.
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SLRF 2027 is taking place at Georgia State University in Atlanta in the fall of 2027.
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Delighted to share the joint proposal that Kevin McManus and I put in to AAAL has just been accepted. Hope to see you in Atlanta next March!  aaal.org/aaal-2027-atlanta
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This looks great!
University of VictoriaのHossein Nassaji先生をお招きし、関西大学梅田キャンパスで講演会を開催します。現在、参加申込を受け付けています。ご都合のよろしい方は、ぜひご参加ください! “From AI-Assisted Writing to L2 Development” 日時:2026年10月22日(木)17:00–18:30 会場:関西大学梅田キャンパス 701教室 mizumot.com/files/Nassaji202…
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A week into the new semester, and the sun is shining.
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Well done, Yu! Super interesting study. @tam07pb915
A critical examination of the relationship between explicit and implicit knowledge and language teaching cup.org/4e5rdgu
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Great to see the project I’ve been working on with my esteemed colleague @MizumotoAtsushi come to fruition. Thanks, Atsushi—we did it! 🙌
Mizumoto, A., & Lucas, M. (2026). Meet MATT: A human-auditable tool for sentence-sampled analysis of English article use. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 8, 104641. doi.org/10.29140/tltl.2026.1…
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Next year’s BAAL is in Liverpool.
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And that’s a wrap! Thank you, BAAL. What a great conference, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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‘Meet the editors’ session was very informative.
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Presentation complete! Thank you to @MizumotoAtsushi, as well as to the audience for being so supportive and engaged.
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Conference dinner. Great company, and great tiramisu!
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One of my favourite presentations of BAAL26 so far — ‘Charting a field on transformation: A meta-review approach to mapping applied linguistics’ by Dr. Dongxia Nie.
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Dr. Takumi Aoyama presenting his brilliant idea of developing a multisite collaborative research synthesis.
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Greetings from Birmingham!
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From Dr. Sarah Mercer’s brilliant plenary at Day 2 of BAAL26, ‘A learner-centred discourse in applied linguistics: At what cost for teachers?’
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Images from Day 1 at BAAL26.
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