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
Selected 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
Recent Publications
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
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