LET Kansai Fundamental Theory SIG

*This event was replaced with a similar event due to the hospitalization of the invited lecturer. The next meeting will be a special two-part lecture by Professor Yasunari Harada https://researchmap.jp/read0129696/ Date & Time: January 26th (14:00 ~ 16:40) Location: Ryukoku University (Umeda Campus) Please refer to this poster for more information &  fill-out the included google form below if you wish to join the organized dinner (17:30~) Dinner Information & Reservation  ⬇️ 読み込んでいます…

In the first part of the meeting, Louis Lafleur (Ritsumeikan University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Lafleur2/ led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 3 Phonological Processing in L2: Issues and Findings (pp. 73-142) Noriko Matsuda (presenter), Takayuki Ishii, Masahiko Iwata, Mitsuko Nishi, Yoshiko Hamazaki (Kindai University etc.) presented about the following: Title: Overused Words in the Essays of English Learners: Possibility of Building a Learner Corpus We thank both the group reading leader and our presenter for their insightful presentation!

Date & Time: December 8th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1002 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 3 Phonological Processing in L2: Issues and Findings (pp. 73-142) will be led by : Louis Lafleur (Ritsumeikan University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Lafleur2/ The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Noriko Matsuda, Takayuki Ishii, Masahiko Iwata, Mitsuko Nishi, Yoshiko Hamazaki (Kindai University etc.) Title: Overused Words in the Essays of English Learners: Possibility of Building a Learner Corpus (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1002 (10th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Miwa Morishita (Kobe Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/read0142634/?lang=english led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 7 Sentence Processing in L2: Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Violations (pp. 286-322) Shoko Otake (Kobe Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shoko_Otake presented about the following: Title: Learning to Spell: Insights from Japanese EFL Students' Understanding of Orthographic Patterns in English We thank both the group reading leader and our presenters for their insightful presentation!

Date & Time: November 10th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1002 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 7 Sentence Processing in L2: Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Violations (pp. 286-322) will be led by : Miwa Morishita (Kobe Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/read0142634/?lang=english The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Shoko Otake (Kobe Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shoko_Otake Title: Learning to Spell: Insights from Japanese ESL Students' Understanding of Orthographic Patterns in English (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1002 (10th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Kohei Miki (Otemon Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/7000012383/?lang=english led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 4 Word Recognition in L2 (pp. 161-183) Yu Kanazawa (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kanazawa  and Louis Lafleur (Ritsumeikan University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Lafleur2 presented about the following: Title: Enrichment of an Academic Word List for Tertiary Education Learners We thank both the group reading leader and our presenters for their insightful presentation!

Date & Time: October 20th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1005 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 4 Word Recognition in L2 (pp. 161-183) will be led by : Kohei Miki (Otemon Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/7000012383/?lang=english The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Yu Kanazawa (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kanazawa  and Louis Lafleur (Ritsumeikan University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Lafleur2 Title: Enrichment of an Academic Word List for Tertiary Education Learners (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1005 (10th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Yu Kanazawa led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 4 Word Recognition in L2 (pp. 143-183) (first part) In the second part of the meeting, Hiroki Watanabe (CiNet: Center for Information and Neural Networks) https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=ZaPyhFgAAAAJ&hl=ja presented about the following: Title: Technology of Neural Decoding and Its Application to Foreign Language Education We thank both the group reading leader and our invited presenter for his insightful presentation! Also please note that the next regular meeting will be held on October 20th as the group's common research project will be the main focus of the following meetings.

Date & Time: June 9th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1403 (14th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 4 Word Recognition in L2 (pp. 143-183) will be led by : Yu Kanazawa (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kanazawa and Kohei Miki (Otemon University) https://researchmap.jp/7000012383/?lang=english The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Hiroki Watanabe (CiNet: Center for Information and Neural Networks) https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=ZaPyhFgAAAAJ&hl=ja Title: Technology of Neural Decoding and Its Application to Foreign Language Education (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1403 (14th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Louis Lafleur, Tomoko Hori, and Yu Kanazawa led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 5  Processing complex words, multiword units, meaning in L2 (pp. 196-243) In the second part of the meeting, Markane Sipraseuth (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Markane_Sipraseuth presented about the following: Title: Vocabulary and Social Learning Collide: a Peak into ELL Motivation plus other Goodies We thank the group reading leaders for their participation and our invited presenter for his insightful presentation!

Date & Time: May 12th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1005 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 5  Processing complex words, multiword units, meaning in L2 (pp. 196-243) second part (+ Formula publishing update/news) will be led by : Isobe Yukari (Kyoto Seika University) https://kyoto-seika.academia.edu/YukariIsobe The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Markane Sipraseuth (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Markane_Sipraseuth Title: Vocabulary and Social Learning Collide: a Peak into ELL Motivation plus other Goodies (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1005 (10th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Isobe Yukari (Kyoto Seika University) https://kyoto-seika.academia.edu/YukariIsobe led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 5  Processing complex words, multiword units, meaning in L2 (pp. 196-243) In the second part of the meeting, Yu Kanazawa (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kanazawa presented about the following: Title: A Critical Examination of the Dominant Mental Trichotomy Ontological Theory We thank both presenters for their great presentations!

Date & Time: April 21st (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1005 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 5  Processing complex words, multiword units, meaning in L2 (pp. 196-243) will be led by : Isobe Yukari (Kyoto Seika University) https://kyoto-seika.academia.edu/YukariIsobe The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Yu Kanazawa (Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kanazawa Title (tentative): A Critical Examination of the Dominant Mental Trichotomy Ontological Theory (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1005 (10th floor)  Address : 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Mayu Hamada (Momoyama Gakuin University) led a group reading of: Sch ü tze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 9  Learning and teaching  (pp. 152-163) In the second part of the meeting, Satoshi Yamagata (Kansai University Dai-ichi Senior High School / Junior High School) presented about the following: Title: A Comparative Study of Two Reading-aloud Techniques in Verb-noun in Collocation Learning: Gap-fill Exercise Versus Textual-enhancement Exercise We thank both presenters for their great presentations!

Date & Time : February 24th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1401 (14th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Sch ü tze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 9  Learning and teaching  (pp. 152-163) will be led by : Mayu Hamada (Momoyama Gakuin University) The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Satoshi Yamagata (Kansai University Dai-ichi Senior High School / Junior High School) Title : A Comparative Study of Two Reading-aloud Techniques in Verb-noun in Collocation Learning: Gap-fill Exercise Versus Textual-enhancement Exercise (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1401 (14th floor)  Address : 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Satoshi Kurokawa (Graduate student at The University of Tokyo) presented about the following: Title : A Study on Analytical Method of Open-Ended Questions In the second part of the meeting, Professor Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University) http://researchers.kwansei.ac.jp/view?l=en&u=322 led a group reading of: Schütze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 8 Word Analysis (pp. 136-151) A big thank you to the presenters for their great work, and all the participants who braved the cold weather outside!

Date & Time : January 26th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1403 (14th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Satoshi Kurokawa (The University of Tokyo, Graduate Student) Title : A Study on Analytical Method of Open-Ended Questions The second part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Sch ü tze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 8 Word Analysis   (pp. 136-151) will be led by : Shuhei Kadota (Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University) http://researchers.kwansei.ac.jp/view?l=en&u=322 (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1403 (14th floor)  Address : 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013