Research theme for competitive and other funds (6):
2019 - 2024 欧米とアセアンの(準)英語圏間を越境する日本人学生たち:その動機と留学成果
2014 - 2019 Japanese students in Asian-dominated study-abroad contexts: what they experience and how they are perceived
2010 - 2014 The increase of students with 'cross-cultural' 'study-abroad' experience: Implications for language education
2007 - 2009 The role of inter-ethnic relations in ESL sojourners' conceptualization of achievement : an analysis through Japanese students' study abroad experience
2003 - 2004 日本人学生の短期語学留学の成果と課題-カナダの語学学校での調査-
Foreign language study motivation, language ideology, language and gender, intercultural understanding
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Papers (45):
Yoko Kobayashi. Studying English both in the ASEAN region and the West: Japanese multiple sojourners’ self-identity, privilege, and global isolation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2023. 44. 6. 498-510
Kobayashi, Yoko. Japanese female English learners’ two-stage learning from Filipino and Western English teachers to acquire “accent-free” English. Language & Communication (published by Elsevier). 2023. 91. 46-54
Kobayashi, Yoko. “Contemporary standard” English policy and pseudo-diversity among inner and outer circle assistant language teachers in Japan. International Journal of Applied Linguistics (published by Wiley). 2023. 33. 2. 260-274
Kobayashi, Yoko. Relationships between young/older Japanese women and Filipino/Western English teachers: Age, gender, ethnicity and English-speaker status. RELC Journal (published by SAGE Journals). 2023. OnlineFirst
KOBAYASHI Yoko. Conceptualizing international students' orientation to intercultural communication. 2008. 133-144
Lectures and oral presentations (39):
Non-elite young Japanese women’s interest in the outside world: The role of academic organizations in sustaining gender (in)equality
(International Gender and Language Association Conference (オーストラリア University of Queensland、ハイブリッド開催・オンライン発表) 2023)
The significance of Filipino English teachers for West-oriented Japanese during the pandemic
(The 57h RELC Conference (シンガポール、ハイブリッド開催・オンライン発表) 2023)
Marketing of Filipino English teachers in the world of native English ideology
(The 20th Asia TEFL Conference (インドネシア、オンライン発表) 2022)
The inclusion and equity of non-Anglophone ALTs in Japan’s diversity-needed EFL education
(2022)
2007 - 2012 Iwate University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Association Membership(s) (4):
American Association of Applied Linguistics
, JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCIENCES
, INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, Communication Association of Japan