Research field (2):
Linguistics
, Foreign language education
Research keywords (4):
Second Language Acquisition
, Pragmatics
, Corpus Linguistics
, Global Englishes
Research theme for competitive and other funds (15):
2024 - 2028 Innovation in English Language Teaching and Teacher Training Based on English as an International Language and Critical Applied Linguistics
2023 - 2026 Building a meta-language education towards ‘collaboration of language education’ and discovering various issues in teacher training
2020 - 2025 Empirical Research on Easy-to-Produce English based on the Event Perception/Description type of Japanese language speaker
2016 - 2020 Constructing a longitudinal learner corpus to track L2 spoken English
2019 - 2019 Possibilities of Multilingualism and Plurilingualism in Asia: With the Focus on Vietnam
2016 - 2018 TBD
2014 - 2018 TBD
2014 - 2017 A confirmatory approach to examining discourse characteristics of "Japanese English" as an international language: Corpus-based analysis
2012 - 2014 Identifying discourse-pragmatic characteristics of "Japanese English" as an international language.
2013 - 2014 A Corpus Study on "Japanese English" as an international language.
2011 - 2012 Compilation and application of a Corpus of English for Japanese Elementary Students
2008 - 2011 Development and application of EIL pedagogies : For ELT practice with non-native speaker models
2005 - 2007 Constructing a "Community of Practice in ElL" in EFL Classrooms: Toward methodology of teaching EIL
2006 - 2007 Compiling a Japanese User Corpus of English (JUCE)
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Papers (28):
Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Takanori Iwao, Hajime Ito, Kiyoshi Naka. Exploring the transfer of topic-comment structures called unagi-sentences in Asian L2 Englishes: cross-proficiency-level and cross-varietal studies. Asian Englishes. 2024. 1-16
Yuri Nishio, Yasuhiro Fujiwara. The Potential of Language Learning with AI and Data Science. Meijo University Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies. 2023. 6. 47-60
Shibata Miki, Naka Kiyoshi, Fujiwara Yasuhiro. English language teaching from a perspective of "English as a lingua franca". Journal of the Chubu English Language Education Society. 2022. 51. 165-172
藤原康弘. 海外新刊書紹介:ELF and Applied Linguistics: Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives. 『英語教育』(大修館書店). 2024. 73. 5. 77-77
Yuri Nishio, Tomoaki Hagito, Gregory Minehane, Paul Wicking, Max Praver, James Rogers, Aya Murray, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Hideo Yanagisawa. High School-University Collaboration: Project-Based Learning with Problem-Solving Challenges from Global Corporations (my translation). 2024. 15
藤原康弘. 海外新刊書紹介:The ICNALE Guide: An Introduction to a Learner Corpus Study on Asian Learners' L2 English. 『英語教育』(大修館書店). 2023. 72. 11. 77-77
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes
Wiley-Blackwell 2025 ISBN:1119518318
PANORAMA English Communication 2, Teacher's Manual
Taishukan Publishing 2023 ISBN:9784469641974
English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in Use (Routledge Studies in World Englishes)
Routledge 2021 ISBN:1138359858
Teaching English as an international language: From the perspectives of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca (my translation)
Taishukan Publishing 2020 ISBN:4469246425
New Developments in Second Language Acquisition and English Language Teaching
Kinseido 2020 ISBN:4764711990
Challenges and solutions in teaching languages in Japan
(International Seminar on Language Teaching, Research and Policy: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward 2024)
Comparison of written and spoken output on the same topic by L1 English and Japanese Speakers
(The 7th Asia Future Conference 2024)
With AI - English Learning in the Future
(Meijo University Open Campus 2024 2024)
Innovation in English language teaching and teacher training: Perspectives from Global Englishes for Language Teaching (GELT)
(53rd National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes 2024)
Raising high school students’ awareness of the diversity of English through a GELT Project
(the 53rd Annual Toyama Conference of the Chubu English Language Education Society 2024)
The Web Concordancer for Elementary School English
Bora Savas, Fujiwara Yasuhiro 2012 - 2021
Professional career (3):
MA in Education (Okayama University, Japan)
MA in Language Studies (Lancaster University, UK)
PhD in Language & Culture (Osaka University, Japan)
Work history (4):
2021/04 - 現在 Meijo University Faculty of Foreign Studies Professor
2016/04 - 2021/03 Meijo University Faculty of Foreign Studies Associate Professor
2013/04 - 2016/03 Aichi University of Education Department of Foreign Languages Associate Professor
2010/04 - 2013/03 Aichi University of Education Department of Foreign Languages Assistant Professor
Committee career (7):
2020/05 - 現在 Japan Association for English Corpus Studies organizer
2018/04 - 現在 The JACET SIG on ELF (English as a lingua franca) Officer
2014/06 - 現在 中部地区英語教育学会 運営委員
2013/06 - 現在 The Japan Association of College English Teachers Steering committee member
2014/06 - 2024/06 The Japanese Association for Asian Englishes Board member
2021/04 - 2023/03 The Japan Association of College English Teachers The JACET Selection Committee for Academic Publications
2022/01 - 2022/10 Japanese Association for English Corpus Studies Chair, the 48th conference of the JAECS
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Awards (6):
2024/08 - Asia Future Conference Best Presentation Award Comparison of written and spoken output on the same topic by L1 English and Japanese Speakers
2022/08 - Asia Future Conference Best Presentation Award Aiming for “Easy (Japanese) Language Acquisition” in line with the learner‘s first language
2019/03 - Meijo University Meijo Best Practice Future Skills Project
2018/03 - Meijo University Meijo Best Practice Core English Program
2014/10 - The Japanese Association for English Corpus Studies JAECS Young Researcher Award
2007/06 - The Chugoku Academic Society of English Language Education The CASELE Excellent Paper Prize
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Association Membership(s) (5):
The Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools
, The Japan Association of College English Teachers
, Japan Society of English Language Education
, Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
, Japan Association for Asian Englishes