Research keywords (3)：
English for Medical Purposes
, Applied Linguistics
, English Education
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：
2024 - 2026 Developing an evidence-based pedagogical model for parent-child bilingual dialogic reading practices
2020 - 2024 児童英語教室会話における非言語コミュニケーションの役割
2015 - 2018 Research on healthcare experiences of foreign patients living in Japan: Narrative Based Medicine approach
Papers (11)：
渡邉 綾. 「教師は天職」:ある日本人英語教師のインタビュー. 2024. 8. 15-33
Aya Watanabe. The collaborative emergence of storytelling in an after-school foreign language primary classroom. Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts: Perspectives from conversation analysis. 2022. 149-173
Simon Capper, Mathew Porter, Ian Willey, Aya Watanabe. Assessing the English needs of Japanese nurses through focus group interviews. Journal of Medical English Education. 2021. 20. 3. 25-32
Between the blackboard and students: Professional animation of the body
(International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA) 2023)
Doing noticing and collective sense of "strangeness" as a preamble to the emergence of teachable and learnable object in language classrooms
(Interactional competences and pratices in a second language (ICOP-L2) 2022)
Focus Groups in a Nursing English Needs Analysis
(45th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning 2019)
Using the human body as an interactional resource for managing turn-taking in the EFL classroom: The microphone gesture
(5th International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2018)
The English curriculum for first year Nursing students at the University of Fukui
(Conference of Japan Association of Nursing English Teaching 2018)
2015 - 2018 Kobe University Graduate School of Intercultural Studies School of Intercultural Studies/Foreing language education content theory
2007 - 2010 University of Hawaii at Manoa Second Language Studies MA
2002 - 2006 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Language and Studies
Work history (5)：
2024/04 - 現在 University of Fukui Faculty of Medical Sciences
2024/04 - 現在 Fukui Prefectural University Research Institute for Regional Economics Associate Professor
2023/10 - 2024/03 University of Fukui Faculty of Basic and Generic Researches Language Center Senior Assistant Professor
2013/04 - 2023/09 University of Fukui Language Center Assistant Professor
2010/09 - 2013/03 Tokyo Medical University Department of International Medical Communications Research Associate
Association Membership(s) (5)：
The Japan Ethnomethodology/Conversation analysis
, The Japan Association for Nursing English Teaching
, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ENGLISH EDUCATION
, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION
, THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING
