Family Name: TAMAOKA
Given Name(s): KATSUO

Gender: Male
Date of Birth: *****************
Nationality: Japanese
Home Address: *****************
Home Address: *****************
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Office Address: Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Naogya University.
Office Address: Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, 464-8601, JAPAN
E-mail Address: ktamaoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Tel & Fax: +81-52-789-4335
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4/1/1974 - 3/31/1981 EHIME UNIVERSITY (Japan)
College of Education,
Teacher Training for Elementary Schools
Bachelor’s Thesis: Eric Ericson’s Ego-Identity in the Youth Period

4/1/1981 - 3/31/1983 HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Graduate School of Education
Comparative Studies of Educational Systems
Master’s Thesis: Open University in the United Kingdom:
Master’s Thesis: A Historical and Administrative Analysis

9/15/1984 - 6/15/1986 UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Canada)
Graduate School of Education
Indian and Northern Education Program
Master’s Thesis: An Assessment of Congruence between Learning
Master’s Thesis: Styles of Cree, Dene, Metis and Non-Native
Master’s Thesis: Students and Instructional Styles of Native and
Master’s Thesis: Non-Native Teachers in Selected Northern
Master’s Thesis: Saskatchewan Schools

8/30/1986 - 5/24/1990 UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
College of Graduate Studies
Doctoral Dissertation: The Locus of Phonetic Recoding in
Doctoral Dissertation: Processing Kana and Kanji by Grades 4, 5 and 6
Doctoral Dissertation: Japanese Students

Doctoral Dissertation: Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology
Doctoral Dissertation: Date Conferred: May 24, 1990

4/1/1990 - 3/31/1992 Lecturer, Faculty of Management
4/1/1990 - 3/31/1992 Matsuyama University, Japan

4/1/1992 - 2/21/1998 Associate Professor, Faculty of Management
4/1/1992 - 2/21/1998 Matsuyama University, Japan

2/22/1998 - 3/31/2002 Associate Professor, International Student Center
2/22/1998 - 3/31/2002 Hiroshima University, Japan

4/1/2002 - 3/31/2008 Professor, International Student Center
4/1/2002 to present Hiroshima University, Japan

4/1/2008 - 3/31/2009 Professor, Department of Foreign Languages/Graduate School of Language Education
                                   Reitaku University

Current Position: Professor, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures
                                 Nagoya University

Field of Specialization:
　　Psycholinguistics
　　Cognitive Psychology
　　Applied Linguistics
　　Second Language Acquisition
　　Japanese Language Education

Full-time Lectureship:

Educational Methodology and Principles (4 credits, 1990-1992, in Japanese)
This course is offered to undergraduate students who wish to receive teaching certification at the junior high school level. The course covers educational philosophy, teaching techniques, psychological theories on education.

Introduction to Psychology (4 credits, 1992-1998, in Japanese)
This course is offered to all undergraduate students at Matsuyama University. The course introduces general theories of psychology including clinical, cognitive, experimental psychology.

Educational Psychology (4 credits, 1992-1998, in Japanese)
This course is offered to undergraduate students who wish to receive teaching certification at the junior high school level. Course content deals with various theories of teaching, leaning, memory, group dynamics in the classroom, developmental theory, etc.

Psycholinguistics (4 credits, 1992-1998, in Japanese)
This course is provided to senior undergraduate students at Matsuyama University. The course focuses on language processing from phonology to semantics. This course was unique in comparing human cognitive language processing to mechanisms of computerized word processing software.

Japanese Language Environment: Psycholinguistics (4 credits, 1998-2002, in Japanese)
This course is provided to both undergraduate and graduate international students at Hiroshima University. The course covers phonological processing units, kanji morphology, mental lexicon to sentence parsing.

Japanese Cultural Understanding (2 credits, 1998-present, in English)
This course is provided in English to international students preparing for graduate studies at Hiroshima University. In class, various contemporary and historical topics related to Japanese culture and history are introduced for discussion.

Japanese Language: Intermediate Level (2 credits, 1998-1999, Japanese Language Education)
This course is provided to all international students at Hiroshima University pending placement test results. This course places equal emphasis on developing the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Japanese Language and Culture (4 credits, 1998-present, Japanese Language Education)
For international students with advanced Japanese comprehension skills, this year-long course introduces a wide range of Japanese vocabulary and expressions from the perspective of the contextual learning approach. During the year, the course covers various topics related to the regions, people and culture in Japan in order to expand students’ inter-related lexical knowledge and expressions. Inter-cultural experiences of international students are also incorporated into class discussions.

Part-time and Intensive-course Lectureship:

English as a Second Language (4 credits, 1993-1994, primarily in English with some Japanese explanation) at the School of Nurses, Iwakuni National Hospital, Japan
This course is provided to students enrolled at the School of Nurses. This course was aimed to develop students’ speaking and listening abilities in the profession-specific settings.

Special Lecture on Psycholinguistics (4 credits, 1993-1998, in Japanese) at the Department of Special Education, College of Education, Ehime University, Japan
This course is provided for graduate students specializing in children with language disabilities (one-year post-graduate program). A majority of students already has some experience working with disabled students at school or hospital, so that the course focused on the theoretical perspectives related to language disabilities, especially the mechanism of Japanese language processing and its malfunctions.

Special Theoretical Lecture on Psycholinguistics (4 credits, 1998-2003, in Japanese) at the Department of Special Education, College of Education, Ehime University, Japan
This course is provided for graduate students at the Master’s Degree level who are specializing in children with language disabilities. The course focuses on experimental and theoretical perspectives related to language disabilities, especially the mechanism of Japanese language processing and its malfunctions.

Special Seminar on the Study of the Japanese Language (4 credits, intensive course, 2000, Japanese) at the Department of Humanities, Yamaguchi University, Japan
This course is provided for undergraduate and graduate students at Yamaguchi University. Psychological studies on Japanese script, phonology, morphemes, lexicon and syndics are introduced.

Lecture Series ‘Science of Languages’ (one class in 2000, Japanese) at the Department of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
I gave one lecture in the lecture series ‘Science of Languages’ for undergraduate students at the Department of Engineering. In this class, I introduced a cognitive processing mechanism of kanji and their compound words with the statistic approach of regression analysis.

Special Lecture III on Language and Information Sciences (4 credits, 2003, in Japanese) at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
This intensive course is provided for graduate students specializing in studies of Japanese and English as second languages. In the course, I introduced actual questionnaires, testing and experimental research conducted on the Japanese and English languages to explain research design, statistics methodology, result reporting.

Second Language Acquisition I (4 credits, 2003-present, in Japanese) at the Graduate School of International Studies, Obirin University, Japan
This intensive course is provided for graduate students specializing in acquisition studies of the Japanese and English languages as second languages. Hypothesis construction, research design, statistics methodology, result reporting and research arguments are taught with data materials of second language acquisition studies.

Special Studies in the Japanese Language (2 credits, 2003-present, in Japanese) at the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan
This intensive course is provided for graduate students specializing studies of Japanese as a second language. In the course, I introduce examples of actual questionnaire, testing and experimental research conducted on the Japanese language to explain research design, statistics methodology, result reporting.

Lexicon Forum published by Japanese Association of Morphological and Lexicological Studies (chief editor Taro Kageyama). In this journal, research papers are published in both Japanese and English with evaluation by referees.
　

The Mental Lexicon published by John Benjamin Publishing Company (chief editors Gonia Jarema, University of Montreal, Canada and Gary Libben, University of Alberta, Canada). The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain.

Cognitive Sciences published by the Japanese Association of Cognitive Sciences. This journal publishes a wide range of studies using the cognitive and scientific approach.

Japanese Cognitive Science Society
　　(An appointed administrative board member from 2003-2006)
Japanese Reading Association
　　(An appointed administrative board member from 1996-present)
International Reading Association
　　(A member of the International Development in Asia Committee from 1994-present and
　　presently a chair of this committee)
Linguistic Society of Japan
　　(An elective administrative board member from 2003-2006)
Phonological Society of Japan
　　(An appointed administrative board member from 2003-2007)
Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
　　(An administrative member of research meeting in the Chugoku region from 1999-2003)
Japanese Psychological Association
Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
Japanese Society of Cognitive Psychology
Mathematical Linguistic Society of Japan
Association for Natural Language Processing
Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Society of Japanese Grammar
The Psychonomic Society