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Name

Yu TAMURA

Affiliation

2018.4. – 2020.3. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Kansai University
2020.4. – Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Kansai University

Degree

2011.3. School of Education, Saitama University, Bachelor of Education
2013.6. Southern New Hampshire University M.S. Teaching English as a Foreign Language
2018.3. Department of International Communication, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Doctor of Philosophy

Professional Experience

2013.8. – 2014.3. English language teacher (full-time), Omiya-nishi junior high school
2014.4. – 2016.3. Part-time lecturer, Chukyo Law College（Subjects：English A/B）
2014.8. – 2015.3. Research assistant, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
2015.4. – 2015.9. International student tutor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
2015.4. – 2016.3. Teaching assistant, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University（Subjects: Theories of Second Language Acquisition, Methodologies of Language Education, Seminar on Language Education and Linguistic Information Ⅰ・Ⅱ）
2016.4. – 2018.3. Part-time lecturer, Aichi University of Technology (Subjects: Basic English 1, Basic English 2 Basic English II(B)

Credentials

2011.3. Teaching certificate for Japanese high schools（Subject: Foreign Language）
2011.3. Teaching certificate for Japanese junior high schools (Subject: Foreign Language）
2011.3. Teaching certificate for Japanese elementary schools

Association Memberships

2012 – 2021 The Japan Society for English Language Education（JASELE)
2012 – 2021 Chubu English Language Education Society（CELES)
2013 – Japan Association for Language Education and Technology（LET)
2014 – The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
2014 – 2021 Japan Curriculum Research and Development Association（JCRDA）
2015 – The Japan Society for Language Sciences（JSLS）

Published Papers

Refereed

Kusanagi, K., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2015).The notional number attraction in English as a foreign language: A self-paced reading study. Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences, 16, 77–96. [abstract] [CiNii] [Downloadable from journal website]
Kusanagi, K., Fukuta, J., Kawaguchi, Y., Tamura, Y., Goto, A., Kurita, A., & Murota, D. (2015). Foreign Language Grammatical Carefulness Scale: Scale development and its initial validation. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 26, 77–92. [abstract] [Full Article]
Tamura, Y. & Kusanagi, K. (2015a). Asymmetrical representation in Japanese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge about the countability of common/material nouns. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 26, 253–268. [abstract] [Full Article]
Tamura, Y. & Kusanagi, K. (2015b). Measuring Japanese learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge of constraints on verb semantics: A case of assertive predicates in English as a Foreign Language. International Journal of Curriculum Development and Practice, 17 (1), 25–38. [abstract]
Tamura, Y. & Kusanagi, K. (2015c). Validation of the grammatical carefulness scale using a discourse completion task and a reading and underlining task. LET Journal of Central Japan, 26, 75–84. [abstract]
Tamura, Y. (2015). Reinvestigating consciousness-raising grammar task and noticing. JABAET Journal, 19, 19–47. [abstract]
Kusanagi, K., Kawaguchi, Y., & Tamura, Y. (2016). Effects and risks of pedagogical treatments in English language teaching research. CELES Journal, 45, 61–68.[in Japanese]
Tamura, Y., Harada, Y., Kato, D., Hara, K., & Kusanagi, K. (2016). Unconscious but slowly activated grammatical knowledge of Japanese EFL learners: A case of tough movement. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 27, 169–184. [abstract] [Full Article]
Tamura, Y. & Nishimura, Y. (2016). L2 word processing of singular- and plural-dominant nouns in English. Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences, 17, 17–37. [abstract]
Nishimura, Y., Tamura, Y., & Hara, K. (2017). How do Japanese EFL learners elaborate sentences complexly in L2 writing? Focusing on clause types. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 28, 209–224. [abstract] [Full Article]
Fukuta, J., Tamura, Y., Kurita, A. (2017). Analysis of oral communication-oriented activities in junior high school textbooks: Focusing on task criteria proposed by second language research. JALT Journal, 36, 165–182. [in Japanese] [abstract] [Downloadable from journal website]
Nishimura, Y., Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J. (2018). Network structures in L2 oral performance: A learner corpus study. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 29, 113–128. [abstract] [Full Article]
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., Harada, Y., Hara, K., & Kato, D. (2019). Japanese EFL learners’ sentence processing of conceptual plurality: An analysis focusing on reciprocal verbs. Applied Psycholinguistics, 41, 59–91. doi:10.1017/S014271641800045 [abstract] [Author Manuscript] [Read Online]
Fukuta, J., Tamura, Y., & Kawaguchi, Y. (2019). Written languaging with indirect feedback in writing revision: Is feedback always effective? Language Awareness, 28, 1–14. [abstract] doi:10.1080/09658416.2019.1567742
Kobayashi, M., Iwatani, M., Tamura, Y., & Abe, D. (2019). Cognitive processes during self correction in L2 oral production: Comparison between tasks with a high and a low cognitive demand. LET Journal of Central Japan, 30, 31–44. [abstract]
Nakata, T., Tamura, Y., & Aubrey, S. (2020). Examining the validity of the LexTALE test for Japanese college students. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 17, 335–348. [abstract] doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2020.17.2.2.335
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., & Kato, D. (2023). Rule-based or efficiency-driven processing of expletive there in English as a foreign language, 61, 1577–1606. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2021-0156 [abstract][Author Manuscript]
Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., & Tamura. Y. (2023). Pitfalls of production data analysis for investigating L2 cognitive mechanism: An ontological realism perspective. Journal of Second Language Studies, 6, 95–118. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.21013.fuk[abstract]
Tamura, Y. (2023). Investigation of the relationship between animacy and L2 learners’ acquisition of the English plural morpheme. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52, 675–690. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09915-2 [abstract] [Author Manuscript] [Read Online]
Terai, M., Fukuta, J., & Tamura, Y. (2024). Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 62(4), 1959–1983. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2022-0234
Tamura, Y. (2025). Is cats one word or two? L2 Learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping. Second Language Research, 41(1), 21–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231188933 [Author Manuscript]
Mizumoto, A., Yasuda, S., & Tamura, Y. (2024). Identifying ChatGPT-generated texts in EFL students’ writing: Through comparative analysis of linguistic fingerprints. Applied Corpus Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100106
Fukuta, J., Murakami, A., Terai, M., & Tamura, Y. (2026). Factors influencing L2 learners’ use of the English dative construction: Insights from a learner corpus. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100965<-New
Tamura, Y. (2026). Singular-plural asymmetry in L2 English Number Processing: A sentence-picture matching study of Japanese learners of English. International Journal of Bilingualism. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069261422017<-New

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Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Fukuta, J., & Tamura, Y. (2017). Focus-on-form effects of task repetition: A pilot study. In M. Hirakawa, J. Matthews, K. Otaki, N. Snape & M. Umeda (Eds), Proceedings of PacSLRF 2016 (pp.59–63).
Tamura, Y. (2017). Is acquiring knowledge of verb-subcategorization in English easier? A partial replication of Jiang (2007). In M. Hirakawa, J. Matthews, K. Otaki, N. Snape & M. Umeda (Eds), Proceedings of PacSLRF 2016 (pp.213–218).
Minemi, I., Kimura, T., Hirokawa, T., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2025). Immunity to agreement attraction and limitation of cognitive resources in non-native language comprehension. In A. Yedetore, R. D. Bonney, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 492–505). Cascadilla Press.

Book chapters

Tamura, Y., & Morita, M. (2026). Robustness of early morphological decomposition in L2 English: A web-based replication of Morita et al. (2017). In R. Murao & M. Morita (Eds.), Second language acquisition research and English education: Festschrift for Professor Masatoshi Sugiura (pp. 80–93). Kaitakusha. <-New
Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (to appear). Psychological approaches to the ‘Dual-System Model’ in SLA: A critical overview. In J. Fukuta, J, Matthews, & S. Wakabayashi (Eds.), Theoretical Issues in second language research: Challenges and new directions. John Benjamins. <-New

Reports / Working papers / Non-refereed

田村祐・草薙邦広（2015).「実験研究の過程と手法のよりよい理解のために―マイクロリサーチ体験という試み―」『外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会2014年度報告論集』 2–14.[リンク］(in Japanese)
田村祐（2016）「外国語教育研究における二値データの分析—ロジスティック回帰を例に—」『外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会2015年度報告論集』29–82. [リンク] (in Japanese)
田村祐 (2017). 「英語使用の機会を増やすタスク・ベースの授業実践―スピーキングに対する抵抗感に焦点をあてて―」『外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会2016年度報告論集』2–19. [リンク] (in Japanese)
草薙邦広・田村祐 (2017). 「外国語教育研究における事後分析の危険性」『外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会2016年度報告論集』30–49. [リンク] (in Japanese)
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., & Kato, D. (2021). L2 learners’ number agreement in the expletive there constructions: Conjoined NP always plural? Reports of 2020 Studies in The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, Chubu Chapter, Fundamentals of Foreign Language Educational Research Special Interest Group (SIG), 2–23. [abstract] [Downloadable from website]

Theses and Dissertations

Tamura, Y. (2013). Revisiting consciousness-raising task and noticing: A case study. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Southern New Hampshire University.
Tamura, Y. (2018). Japanese EFL learners’ acquisition of number feature representation in English. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Nagoya University. [abstract]

Presentations

Tamura, Y. (2013). Revisiting consciousness-raising task and noticing. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2013), Hokkaido, Japan. [slideshare]
Tamura, Y., & Kusanagi, K. (2014a). Measuring explicit and implicit knowledge of sentence-level discourse constraints: A case of assertive predicates in English as a foreign language. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Chubu English Language Education Society (CELES 2014). Yamanashi, Japan. [slideshare]
Tamura, Y., & Kusanagi, K. (2014b). Countability of normal/material nouns in Japanese EFL learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2014). Tokushima, Japan.[slideshare]
草薙邦広・福田純也・川口勇作・田村祐・後藤亜希・栗田朱莉・室田大介「外国語における文法的慎重性尺度の開発」第40回全国英語教育学会徳島研究大会. 徳島大学.[口頭発表] (in Japanese)
Kusanagi, K., Fukuta, J., Kawaguchi, Y., Tamura, Y., Goto, A., Kurita, A., & Murota, D. (2014). Development of grammatical carefulness in English as a foreign language: A comparison among university, high school, and junior high school students in Japan. Paper presented at the 19th PAAL Conference (PAAL 2014). Waseda University, Japan.
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., & Kusanagi, K. (2014). Japanese EFL learners’ implicit/explicit knowledge of subject-verb agreement in existential there: A self-paced reading study. Paper presented at the 20th Japan-British Association for English Teaching Conference (JABAET 2014). Housei University, Japan. [slideshare]
Kusanagi, K., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2014). The notional number attraction for subject-verb agreement errors during L2 online sentence processing: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the Japan Society for Speech Science Open Forum 2014 (JSSS Open Forum 2014). Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. [slideshare]
Tamura, Y. & Kusanagi, K. (2014c). Validation of the grammatical carefulness scale using a discourse completion task and a reading and underlining task. Paper presented at the 84th LET Chubu Conference. Shizuoka University, Japan. [slideshare]
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., & Kato, D. (2015). Coordinated NPs agree with singular or plural in there-constructions? A comparison between NS and NNS in a self-paced reading task. Poster presented at the 17th Annual International Conference of the Japan Society for Language Sciences. Oita, Japan. [poster]
Tamura, Y., & Nishimura, Y. (2015). Word frequency effects and plurality in L2 word recognition: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the Chubu English Language Education Society (CELES 2015). Wakayama, Japan. [slideshare]
福田純也・田村祐・栗田朱莉（2015）「インタラクション活動におけるタスク性の逸脱に関する理論的考察とそれに基づく中学教科書の分析」第45回中部地区英語教育学会和歌山大会. 和歌山大学.[口頭発表] (in Japanese)
草薙邦広・川口勇作・田村祐（2015）「教育的処遇の成果を評価するための定量的アプローチ：『中部地区英語教育学会紀要』掲載論文を対象とした事例分析」第45回中部地区英語教育学会和歌山大会. 和歌山大学.[投影資料] (in Japanese)
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., Harada, Y., Hara, K., & Kato, D. (2015). Conceptual plurality in Japanese EFL learners’ online sentence processing: A case of garden-path sentences with reciprocal verbs. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2015). Kumamoto, Japan. [slideshare]
川口勇作・田村祐・福田純也（2015）「推敲時の筆記ランゲージングにおける学習者の注意配分とライティングの質の向上―フィードバックの有無に焦点をあてて―」第41回全国英語教育学会熊本研究大会. 熊本学園大学. (in Japanese)
田村祐（2015）「理解型インプットタスクを用いた授業実践」第21回日英・英語教育学会研究大会. 法政大学. [slideshare] (in Japanese)
田村祐（2016）「文法性判断課題における反応時間と主観的測度は正答率を予測するか—文法項目の違いに焦点をあてて—」外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会第三回年次例会，名古屋学院大学 (in Japanese)
西村嘉人・田村祐・原和久（2016）「L2ライティングにおける統語的複雑さはタスクによる認知的負荷の影響を受けるか：節の種類に注目して」第46回中部地区英語教育学会三重大会. 鈴鹿医療科学大学. (in Japanese)
Nishimura, Y., Fukuta, J., & Tamura, Y. (2016). Network structures and network dynamics in L2 oral performance: A learner corpus study. The 56th National Conference of the Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (LET2016). Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)
Kusanagi, K., Fukuta, J., Kawaguchi, Y., Tamura, Y., & Goto, A. (2016). Who is the best partner in cooperative learning? Partner’s traits as a motivational factor. The 56th National Conference of the Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (LET2016). Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)
Tamura, Y. (2016). Conceptual and grammatical plurality in L2 sentence comprehension. The 42nd Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2016). Saitama, Japan. [slideshare]
Tamura, Y. (2016). Is acquiring knowledge of verb subcategorization in English easier? A partial replication of Jiang (2007). Paper presented at PacSLRF2016. [slideshare]
Fukuta, J., & Tamura, Y. (2016). Focus-on-form effects of task repetition: A pilot study. In Shintani, N. (Organizer). Impact of task repetition on L2 learning: Multiple perspectives. Colloquium conducted at PacSLRF2016, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Tamura, Y,, Morita, M., & Nishimura, Y. (2016). Word frequency dominance and L2 word recognition in English. Paper presented at Vocab@Tokyo. [slideshare]
Morita, M., Tamura, Y., & Nishimura, Y. (2017). Processing of inflected words by Japanese learners of English: A masked priming study. the 19th Annual International Conference of the Japan Society for Language Sciences. Kyoto, Japan.
福田純也・西村嘉人・田村祐（2018）「認知的アプローチに基づくパフォーマンス指標解釈の問題点」外国語教育メディア学会中部支部外国語教育基礎研究部会第5回年次例会. 愛知学院大学. (in Japanese)
Kato, Y., Kobayashi, M., Matsumura, M., Tamura, Y., Wicking, P., & Yokoyama, Y (2019). Materials Development for TBLT in an EFL setting: Challenges and Possibilities. Poster presented at the Eighth International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Tamura, Y. (2019). Automatic activation of number in comprehension: A novel approach to form-meaning mapping. The 2019 Second Language Research Forum. The Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.[GitHub]
Terai, M., Fukuta, J., & Tamura, Y. (2021). Learnability of L2 collocation and L1 activation in L2 collocational processing. The 20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Acquisition.
Fukuta, J., Murakami, A., Terai, M., & Tamura, Y. (2023). Developmentally moderated factors influencing the L2 production of English dative construction: A learner corpus study. EuroSLA 32. University of Birmingham.
Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., & Kimura, T. (2024). Distributive reading and conceptual plurality in second language acquisition. The 24th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Acquisition. Osaka Kyouiku University, Osaka. [Speaker Deck]
Minemi, I., Kimura, T., Hirokawa, T., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2024). Immunity to agreement attraction in native and non-native language comprehension. IEICE Technical Committee on Thought and Language (TL): Language Processing and Language Learning. Kwansei Gakuin University.
Murakami A., Terai, M., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2024). Proficiency-dependent factors influencing L2 dative alternation. Learner Corpus Research 2024. The University of Tartu, Estonia.
Minemi, I., Kimura, T., Hirokawa, T., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2024). Immunity to agreement attraction and limitation of cognitive resources in non-native language comprehension. Boston University Conference on Language Development 49 (BUCLD 49). Boston University, USA.
田村祐・福田純也（2025）「第二言語習得研究における明示的・暗示的知識の再検討：この分類は何に役に立つか・何に役に立たないか」外国語教育メディア学会（LET）第64回（2025年）年次研究大会. 関西大学. [speakerdeck](in Japanese)

Talks at Unofficial Events

田村祐 (2014) 「一般化線形混合モデル入門の入門」 Nagoya.R #12, 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科. [発表資料] (in Japanese)
田村祐 (2015)「rlistのススメ」Nagoya.R #13, 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科. [発表資料] (in Japanese)
田村祐 (2015) 「コンソールベタ打ち卒業：スクリプトエディタを使おう」Nagoya.R #14, 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科. [発表資料] (in Japanese)
田村祐（2016）「effectsパッケージを用いた一般化線形モデルの可視化」Nagoya.R #15, 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科 [発表資料] (in Japanese)
田村祐（2016）「rmarkdown楽しい：研究の再現性のために」Nagoya.R #16, 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科 [発表資料] (in Japanese)