Department/Division Human and Environmental Studies/Language Sciences
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Other Affiliation Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Message to the prospective students

If you are interested in pursuing research in the field of foreign language education, please consider joining our lab! We are a growing group of researchers investigating a wide-range of topics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Take a look at the following websites and contact me (A/Prof. Yosuke Sasao) if you are interested in working with us.

# Kyoto University Activity Database: https://kyouindb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/oB4bS
# Lab homepage: https://ysasaojp.info/en/top-page/
Research areas Foreign Language Education, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics
Keywords vocabulary acquisition, language assessment, pedagogical grammar, English for Academic Purposes
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Major publications Selected recent publications

Sasao, Y, Webb, S. (2020). The guessing from context test. In S. Webb (Ed.) Approaches to Teaching, Learning, Testing, Researching L2 Vocabulary. (pp. 117-142). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Sasao, Y. (2020). Measuring the ability to learn words. In S. Webb (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies. (pp. 419-432). London: Routledge.

Sasao, Y. (2019). Vocabulary teaching: A systemic perspective. In A. Tajino (Ed.), A Systems Approach to Language Pedagogy. (pp. 39-47). Singapore: Springer.

Mizumoto, A, Sasao, Y, Webb, S. A. (2019). Developing and evaluating a computerized adaptive testing version of the Word Part Levels Test. Language Testing, 36, 1, 101-123

Sasao, Y, Webb, S. (2018). The guessing from context test. ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 169, 1, 114-140

Sasao, Y. (2018). MAP grammar and vocabulary. In A. Tajino (Ed.), A new approach to English pedagogical grammar: The order of meanings (pp.128-136). Oxford: Routledge

Webb, S, Sasao, Y, Ballance, O. (2017). The updated Vocabulary Levels Test: Developing and validating two new forms of the VLT. ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 168, 1, 33-69

Yosuke Sasao, Stuart Webb. (2017). The Word Part Levels Test. Language Teaching Research, 21, 1, 12-30
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Teaching Areas
  • Undergraduate courses
  • Graduate courses (Master's program)
  • Graduate courses (Doctor's program)
  • Undergraduate courses open to all departments
Background B.A.: Kyoto University (Faculty of Integrated Human Studies)
M.A.: Kyoto University (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies)
Ph.D.: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies)

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics

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