Masaru Yamamoto

Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia

Project

MY RESEARCH PROJECT

PHD RESEARCH

This project explores how a cohort of undergraduate Japanese study-abroad students experience multilingual socialization in their own sociorelational context.

This project explores how a cohort of undergraduate Japanese study-abroad students experience multilingual socialization in their own sociorelational context.

In Progress

MA RESEARCH

This project investigated how undergraduate geoscience students are socialized into disciplinary practices of geoscience through multimodal practices and resources, including gestures, visuals, and spatial arrangements.

Output

Research project involved

Dr. Patsy Duff’s Projects

I have collaborated on various occasions with Dr. Patsy Duff, including book chapters, an SSRCH-funded Chinese language project, and other service work.

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MUSE

The MUSE (Multilingual University Student Experience) Project is a multi-site research study designed to better understand multilingual students’ experience and social adaptation in three Canadian universities. I served as a Graduate Research Assistant for Research Assistant for Drs. Sandra Zappa-Hollman (UBC), Heike Neumann (Concordia U.), and Saskia Van Viegen (York U.)

Project Website

Accessible Knowledge mobilization

LLED Scholarship Stories 2025

I collaborated with LLED, UBC to disseminate the interdisciplinary scholarships and professional commitments of LLED faculty and doctoral students. I am basically doing all the work related to the material production and video editing (those with the UBC-logo’ed thumbnail with natural backgrounds)

LLED YouTube

CALx Series

This is a six-part series “Toward more diverse and inclusive ELT in Japan: From critical applied linguistics perspectives” targeted for pre- and in-service language educators in Japan, exploring tenets of critical applied linguistics, native-speakerism, queer-inclusion, antiracism, posthumanism, decolonial perspectives, and their educational applications in Japanese educational contexts.

Open Access Articles (JP)

ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics

I collaborated with Dr. Kazuya Saito (University College London) and his research collaborators to disseminate their interdisciplinary scholarships and research talks to colleagues and general public all over the world through YouTube. I was a video-editor for the two YouTube channels.

Kazuya L2 Lab
ESRC-JSLARF

L2 Speaking Assessment Portal (’22)

This project developed a series of multimedia resources for developing assessment literacy designed specifically for English teachers in Japan I edited all the videos available on the website. I served as a Research Assistant for Dr. Rie Koizumi.

Portal

LLED Scholarship Stories 2025

  1. Language and Literacy Education UBC (2025b, November 5). LLED Scholarship Stories 2025: Dr. Marika Kunnas. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3D-nIo4rno
  2. Language and Literacy Education UBC (2025b, November 5). LLED Scholarship Stories 2025: Dr. Anwar Ahmed. Youtube. https://youtu.be/pam7OTlpHws?si=p06RrB_JZqBlwO-Q
  3. Language and Literacy Education UBC (2025a, October 29). LLED Scholarship Stories 2025: Dr. George Whitehead. Youtube. https://youtu.be/Cnd8w7XB6Kk?si=Uz0jI-L5MVk_Dphn

Kazuya L2 Lab & ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics

  1. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023l, October 9). Professor Pauline Foster: L1 literacy and L2 oracy: A partial replication of Foster & Skehan (1996). Youtube.
  2. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023k,  August 9). Dr. Viktoria Magne: What phonetic features predict attitudes to L2 speech?. Youtube.
  3. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023j, July 18). Dr. Eloi Puig-Mayenco: Assessing the validity of the LexTALE. Youtube.
  4. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023i, June 30). Drs. Yuichi Suzuki & Hyenjeong Jeong: Neural foundations of explicit and implicit knowledge. Youtube.
  5. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023h, April 18). Dr. Miyuki Sasaki: Investigating L2 writing development: What lies ahead and beyond. Youtube.
  6. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023g, April 4). Dr. Shuhei Kadota: Exploring the input effect of shadowing training in L2 acquisition. Youtube.
  7. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023f, March 14). Dr. Andrea Rèvész: The role of working memory in second language writing. Youtube.
  8. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023e, March 10). Dr. Adam Tierney: The role of auditory processing in second language learning. Youtube.
  9. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023d, February 21). Dr. Robert DeKeyser: Research on aptitude for L2: Can neuroscientists help us make progress?. Youtube.
  10. 10.ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023c, February 10). Dr. Christos Pliatsikas: Understanding structural plasticity in the multilingual brain. Youtube.
  11. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023b, February 9). Dr. Andrea Rèvész: The neural correlates of mid- and end-clause silent pauses in L2 speech. Youtube.
  12. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2023a, January 10). Dr. Parvaneh Tavakoli: What constitutes task complexity? A pre-service teacher perspective. Youtube.
  13. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022n, December 23). Dr. Ana Pellicer Sanchez: Revisiting the role of lexical coverage in reading. Youtube.
  14. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022m, December 14). Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele: Is flow possible in the Emergency Remote Teaching foreign language classroom?. Youtube.
  15. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022l, December 14). Dr. Kazuya Saito: Introducing offline auditory processing test as L2 research and teaching tool. Youtube.
  16. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022k, June 10). Dr. Natsuko Shintani – Comparing TBLT and traditional instruction: Findings & methodological issues. Youtube.
  17. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022j, June 3). Drs. Kazuya Saito & Adam Tierney – Having a good ear as a foundation of second language acquisition. Youtube.
  18. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022i, May 27). Dr. Wataru Suzuki – Languaging: Theory, research, and pedagogy. Youtube.
  19. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022h, May 13). Dr. Yuko Goto Butler – Digital gaming and young L2 learning. Youtube.
  20. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022g, May 4). Dr. Nobuhiro Kamiya – What do mismatching gestures teach us?. Youtube.
  21. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022f, April 23). Epilogue: Closing discussions @ESRC-JSLARF Symposium #1 (Tohoku University, 2019). Youtube.
  22. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022e, April 16). Dr. Motoaki Sugiura – How to use fMRI in the research on language learning. Youtube.
  23. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022d, April 2). Dr. Adam Tierney – Comparing sources of individual differences in child L1 and adult L2 acquisition. Youtube.
  24. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022c, March 26). Dr. Yuichi Suzuki – Cognitive aptitudes for L2 grammar acquisition: The theory-driven approach. Youtube.
  25. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022b, March 12). Dr. Kazuya Saito – What characterises “talent” for second language speech learning?. Youtube.
  26. ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics. (2022a, March 5). Dr. Andrea Rèvész – Applied linguistics perspectives on successful instructed L2 learning. Youtube.
  27. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021h, July 1). Special Interview with Professor Stuart Webb (Western University). Youtube.  
  28. 28.Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021g, June 29). Language learning through watching television – Professor Stuart Webb (Western University). Youtube.  
  29. 29.Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021f, May 5). Special interview with Professor Luke Plonsky (Northern Arizona University). Youtube.
  30. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021e, May 2). What has meta-analysis taught us about instructed SLA? – Professor Luke Plonsky. Youtube.
  31. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021d, March 10). Special interview with Professor Andrea Révész (UCL). Youtube.
  32. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021c, March 3). Second Language Writing Processes & Behaviours – Professor Andrea Révész (UCL). Youtube.
  33. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021b, February 16). Special interview with Professor Pauline Foster. Youtube.  
  34. Kazuya L2 Lab. (2021a, February 12). Age, Implicit Learning, & Second Language Acquisition – Professor Pauline Foster. Youtube.