2012 - 2017 Changes in Japanese EFL university students’ writing with task-type practice: A longitudinal study from the complex dynamic systems perspective
2009 - 2012 Effects of task type practice on the Japanese EFL university student's writing from a dynamic systems perspective: A longitudinal study utilizing multi-level text analysis
2006 - Canadian Modern Language Review Student Presentation Award
2004 - 2006 Government of Canada Award
2002 - 2006 Graduate Assistantship
2001 - 2005 OISE/UT Scholarship
2005 - Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant
2005 - Academic Excellence Award
2004 - TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment
2001 - 2003 The Rotary Foundation Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship
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Papers (25)：
Ryo Nitta, Kyoko Baba. Multilayered approach to researching learner agency as complex dynamic system: Cases of Japanese students learning English at university. International Journal of Complexity in Education. 2023. 4. 1. 37-59
Baba, K, Nitta, R. Emergence of multiple groups of learners with different writing-development trajectories in classroom: Growth mixture modeling. Journal of Second Language Writing. 2021. 54. 1-12
Sasaki, M, Baba, K, Nitta, R, Matsuda, P. K. Effects of web-based communication tasks on the development and transferability of audience awareness in L2 writers: Two exploratory studies. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 2020
Ryo Nitta, Kyoko Baba. Understanding benefits of repetition from a complex dynamic systems perspective: The case of a writing task. Task-Based Language Teaching. 2018. 11. 279-309
BABA, Kyoko. Dynamic patters of developmental trajectories of writing fluency from a complex dynamic systems perspective: An exploratory study. Kinjo Gakuin Daigaku Ronshu. 2018. 15. 1. 96-116
Studies and essays on learning, teaching and assessing L2 writing in honour of Alister Cumming
Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020 ISBN:9781527548145
G. G. Fogal & M. Verspoor (Eds). Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task?
John Benjamins 2020
K. Koda, & J. Yamashita (Eds) Reading to learn in a foreign language
Routledge 2019
M. Bygate (Ed). Understanding benefits of repetition from a complex dynamic systems perspective: The case of a writing task.
2018
Researching learner agency from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory perspective: A multilayered approach
(European Second Language Association 32 2023)
Understanding L2 writing development from the perspective of learner agency: Biographical retrodiction
(the colloquium “L2 writing research: The dynamics and complexity of writing development (Chair: Gary Fogal)” at AILA 2021, Virtual 2021)
Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task?
(2019)
Phase transitions in dynamic development of writing fluency: a longitudinal study from a complex dynamic systems perspective
(2013)
1999 - 2001 The Graduate School of Language and Culture, Nagoya University
1995 - 1999 Waseda University
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto)
Work history (5)：
2022/04 - 現在 東洋大学文学部国際文化コミュニケーション学科 教授
2020/04 - 現在 Kinjo Gakuin University College of Humanities Department of English professor
2013/04 - 現在 Kinjo Gakuin University Associate Professor
2012/04 - 2020/03 Kinjo Gakuin University Department of English, College of Humanities Associate Professor (tenured)
2007/04 - 2011/03 Kinjo Gakuin University Department of English, College of Humanities Assistant Professor (tenured)
Association Membership(s) (3)：
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION
, THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
, American Association for Applied Linguistics
