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McEown Kristopher

McEown Kristopher
Affiliation and department:
Research field  (1): Experimental psychology
Research keywords  (3): neurolinguistics ,  cognitive neuroscience ,  psycholinguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (4):
  • 2020 - 2024 Emotional intelligence as a mediator between positive and negative emotions and neuro-cognitive performance among Japanese EFL learners
  • 2018 - 2023 The role of the frontal cortex, psychological factors associated with student motivation and academic outcomes in Japanese students learning English.
  • 2019 - 2020 Psychological factors associated with student motivation in Japanese students learning English and languages other than English
  • 2017 - 2019 Impact of teacher characteristics on science writing education
Papers (12):
  • Sugita-McEown, M, Makuuchi, M, Naoe, T, Ellinger, J, Quint Oga-Baldwin, W. L, McEown, K.S. An fMRI study examining the role of the extended amygdala and amygdala in emotion and inhibitory control in native versus second language processing. PLOS ONE. 2024
  • Kristopher McEown, Maya Sugita McEown, W. L. Q. Oga-Baldwin. The role of trait emotional intelligence in predicting academic stress, burnout, and engagement in Japanese second language learners. Current Psychology. 2023
  • Kristopher McEown, Maya Sugita-McEown. The role of positive and negative psychological factors in predicting effort and anxiety toward languages other than English. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2020. 43. 8. 1-13
  • Maya Sugita-McEown, Kristopher McEown. The role of parental factors and the self in predicting positive L2 outcomes among Japanese learners of English. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2019. 40. 10. 934-949
  • Kristopher McEown, Maya Sugita-McEown. Individual, parental and teacher support factors of self-regulation in Japanese students. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 2019. 13. 4. 389-401
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Books (1):
  • Animal models and anxiolytic drug action. CTBN behavioral neurobiology of anxiety and its treatment
    Springer Verlag 2010
Lectures and oral presentations  (16):
  • An fMRI study examining the role of the extended amygdala in negative emotion and inhibitory control in second language learners.
    (Society for Neuroscience 2021)
  • Gender differences in psychological factors as predictors of self-regulation in a Japanese learning context.
    (Hawaii International Conference on Education 2021)
  • The role of motivational orientations for languages other than English in predicting LOTE attitudes in a Japanese learning context.
    (Hawaii International Conference on Education 2020)
  • Self-regulatory processes among Japanese EFL learners in CLIL course contexts
    (3rd International Conference on Situating Strategy Use 2019)
  • Incorporating the inclusive L2 self into self-related motivations in a Japanese EFL context
    (International Symposium on Education and Social Sciences 2018)
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Education (3):
  • - 2013 University of Alberta Department of Psychology Ph.D.
  • - 2009 University of Alberta Department of Psychology M.Sc.
  • - 2005 University of Saskatchewan Department of Psychology B.A. (High Hons.)
Professional career (1):
  • Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Awards (4):
  • 2014 - The Takeda Science Foundation International Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
  • 2014 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers
  • 2009 - The Government of the Province of Alberta, Canada Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship
  • 2007 - The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Post Graduate Master’s Scholarship
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