Jessica Takeda, Ryan Spring. The creation and impact of multimodal online tools for English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) at Tohoku University. Bulletin of the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education Tohoku University. 2024. 10. 125-129
Sachiko Nakamura, Ryan Spring, Shizuka Sakurai. The impact of ASR-based interactive video activities on speaking skills: Japanese EFL learners’ perceptions. Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal (TESL-EJ). 2024. 27. 4
Ryan Spring, Naoyuki Ono. Creating an automated tool to assist with event-conflation studies: An explanation and argument for its importance. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 2024. 3. 1. 100054-100054
Ryan Spring, Jessica Takeda. The effect of multimodal flashcards on L2 derivational vocabulary knowledge: A preliminary analysis of attempts and quiz question modes. Japan Association of Language Education and Technology Kanto Chapter. 2023. 8. 1-24
Ryan Spring. A Human-AI Integrated Rating System for Improving Second Language Writing:The Case of Japanese Learners of English for General Academic Purposes. Reports of Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET), Kansai Chapter, Methodology Special Interest Group (SIG). 2023. 15. 22-43
Shizuka Sakurai, Ryan Spring. Analysis of difficulty in listening to lectures: What makes lectures more or less difficult for Japanese EFL students?. 2022. 8. 26-30
Ryan Spring. Free, Online Multilingual Statistics for Linguistics and Language Education Researchers. 2022. 8. 32-38
Spring, Ryan, Johnson, Matthew Wade. Improvements in automatically calculating vocabulary use in EFL writing. OASIS Database. 2022
Ryan Spring. Common pronunciation mistakes that affect intelligibility: A preliminary error analysis of Tohoku University EFL students. Annual Report of the Center for Culture and Language Education. 2022. 7. 37-44
Spring, Ryan. Creating formative assessments for English A1 and B1 classes. 2021. 6. 25-28
What REALLY makes learners better writers?
(JACET Tohoku Branch Conference 2023)
Mulimodal online flashcards: Implementation & effects
(Tohoku English Language Teaching Expo 2023)
Feedback Provision in Academic Writing Classes
(JALT 2023 International Conference 2023)
Measuring students’ use of satellite-framing objectively: Usages in rating the persuasive paragraph writing of L1 Japanese EFL learners
(The 2nd Annual Research Meeting of the LET Methodology SIG 2023)
Engaging Students in Speaking Activities with Video Prompts
(The 28th ATEM (The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia) International Conference 2023)
2011 - 2014 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
2009 - 2011 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
2001 - 2005 The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Languages and Culture Studies
Professional career (3)：
交際文化交流論 (言語コミュニケーション論) (Tohoku University)
交際文化交流論 (異文化間教育論) (Tohoku University)
ドイツ語・ドイツ文学 (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Committee career (4)：
2022/11 - 現在 The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia Vice President
2022/11 - 現在 The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia Head of International Relations
2018/12 - 現在 The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia Vice President of East Japan Branch
2018/04 - 現在 The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia Journal Editing Committee
Awards (11)：
2024/02 - Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Electronic Journal TESL-EJ Award for Excellence Ton Ten 2023 Reviewer
2023/05 - Best Paper Award Using digital storytelling and project-based learning with elementary school EFL learners
2022/11 - The Japanese Society for Language Sciences Best Paper Award A pilot study of an integrated AI-humanwriter-rater system: How I learned to stop worrying and love the machine
2020/11 - Association for Teaching English through Multimedia Best paper Award
2017/03 - Tohoku University President's Award
2017/01 - Tohoku University Tohoku University Educational Contribution Award
2017/01 - 日本論説資料保存会 第48号英語学論説資料収録論文集に選抜
2015/10/23 - Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Certificate of Appreciation
2014/03 - 東北大学 総長賞
2010/12 - Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation Best Student Paper Award
Selected for the 51st issue of “Collected Articles on the English Language”
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Association Membership(s) (6)：
言語処理学会
, LET
, Japanese Society for Language Science
, Association of Teaching English through Multimedia
, 日本言語学会
, THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
