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Takimoto Masahiro

タキモト マサヒロ | Takimoto Masahiro
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Homepage URL  (1): https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/mt880
Research field  (1): Foreign language education
Research keywords  (2): Cognitive Linguistics ,  Applied Cognitive Linguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (4):
  • 2020 - 2023 Analysis of cognitive linguistic approach in foreing language teaching from the perspective of brain science
  • 2017 - 2020 Applying cognitive linguistics to teaching pragmatics: experimental evidence
  • 2019 - Application of Cognitive Linguistics in Foreign Language Teaching
  • 2014 - 2017 Evaluating the effects of 3D multimedia teaching materials for developing Japanese learners' academic writing skills
Papers (23):
  • Masahiro Takimoto. The effects of animated versus static metaphor with 3D images on EFL learners’ acquisition of degrees of certainty. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. 2023. 39. 6. 1801-1818
  • Masahiro Takimoto. The relationship between a cognitive linguistic approach and the right-hemisphere. IAFOR Journal of Education: Language Learning in Education, The International Academic Forum. 2023. 11. 1. 83-99
  • Masahiro Takimoto. A comparative study of animation versus static effects in the spatial concept-based metaphor awareness-raising approach on EFL learners’ cognitive processing of request strategies. Language and Cognition 13(2), Cambridge University Press, 191-226. 2021
  • Masahiro Takimoto. Investigating the effects of cognitive linguistic approach in developing EFL learners' pragmatic proficiency. System 89, Elsevier, 102213. 2020
  • Masahiro Takimoto. Exploring the effects of proximal-distal metaphor on the development of EFL learners' knowledge of the degree of certainty. Language Teaching Research 24(3) , SAGE Publications, 317-337. 2020
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MISC (2):
  • Masahiro Takimoto. Investigating the relative effects of cognitive and non-cognitive approaches on the development of Japanese learners' knowledge of different degrees of certainty [an abstract of Ph.D. dissertation]. Language Information Text (The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Language and Information Sciences). 2019. 26. 84-86
  • Masahiro Takimoto. A cognitive linguistic approach to overcome cross-cultural pragmatic failure. The English Teachers' Magazine (TAISHUKAN Publishing) November. 2019. 30-31
Books (9):
  • An Academic Journey to Cambridge University: A Comparison with Harvard University and a Cheer for the Challenge
    Kaitakusha Publishing 2024
  • Application of Cognitive Linguistics in Foreign Language Teaching
    Kaitakusha Publishing 2020
  • Teaching pragmatics. In W. Suzuki (Ed.), Teaching English from a Second Langauge Acquisition Perspective
    Taishukan Publishing 2017
  • Research summary of exploring the effects of similar and same task repetition on learners’ second language pragmatic proficiency. In T. Stephens & J. Duncan (Eds.), Education Research Summaries
    Nova Science Publishers 2013
  • Exploring the effects of similar and same task repetition on learners' second language pragmatic proficiency. In D. Alonso (Ed.), English as a Second Language.
    Nova Publishers 2011
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Lectures and oral presentations  (34):
  • The efficacy of animated versus static illustrations with 3D images on EFL learners’ acquisition of degrees of sureness
    (31st MELTA International Conference 2023)
  • The application of cognitive linguistics and right-hemisphere in foreign language teaching (Keynote Speaker).
    (5th International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences 2022)
  • The relationship between the effects of metaphor-based approach and the right-hemisphere involvement in developing EFL learners' knowledge of degrees of sureness (Session Chair).
    (The European Conference on Language Learning 2022)
  • The relationship between cognitive linguistic approach and right-hemisphere of the brain in developing EFL learners' pragmatic proficiency.
    (The Paris Conference on Education 2022)
  • The application of cognitive linguistics on the right-hemisphere involvement in developing Japanese EFL learners' knowledge of degrees of certainty
    (4 th International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences 2021)
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Professional career (1):
  • Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (9):
  • 2009/04 - 現在 Aoyama Gakuin University College of Science and Engineering Professor
  • 2021/09 - 2022/09 University of Cambridge Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Visiting Scholar (long-term foreign residency research)
  • 2021/09 - 2022/09 Wolfson College University of Cambridge Visiting Fellow (long-term foreign residency research)
  • 2020/04 - 2021/03 National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Research Institute Department of Rehabilitation for Brain Functions Visiting Researcher
  • 2006/04 - 2009/03 Tezukayama University Faculty of Arts Associate Professor
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Awards (5):
  • 2021 - 2021 JACET Distinguished Research Award
  • 2019 - 2019 UTokyo Grant for Academic Publication
  • 2010 - Asia TEFL traval grant for the 8th Asia TEFL International Conference
  • 1991 - 1991-92 Rotary Foundation Scholarship for graduate study at Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • 1984 - 1984-85 Rotary Foundation Scholarship for undergraduate study in the US
Association Membership(s) (3):
The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association ,  Cognitive Neuropsychology Society ,  The Japan Association of College English Teachers
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