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Toya Mitsuyo

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Title	Professor
Researcher Number(JSPS Kakenhi)	00295289

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Duty University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Global and Regional Studies international language culture program Professor
Concurrently University of the Ryukyus Graduate School of Community Engagement and Development Language and Representation Professor

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University of Hawaii at Manoa - Master of Arts

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1996.10

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1997.03

University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of General Education, Assistant Professor
1997.04

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2003.01

University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor
2003.02

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2008.03

University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor
2008.04

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2013.09

University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor
2013.10

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2018.03

University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Languages and Cultures, Professor

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English as a Foreign Language
Applied Linguistics

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Humanities & Social Sciences / Foreign language education

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A Diary Study of Bilingual Development in Early Childhood by a Non-Native Japanese Couple (1) - A Longitudinal Study of Bilingual Language Acquisition in a Japanese Girl, 0 to 4 Years 7 Months -

( 103 ) 85 - 98 2023.08

Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)
Local Culture Education at an Immersion Program School ―Perspective of Shimakutuba (Okinawan dialect) ―

24 ( 1 ) 23 - 34 2023.07

Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)
Role of Study Abroad in the Path to Teaching English in English Among Japanese Teachers

Mitsuyo Toya

The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings 2023 599 - 610 2023.03 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (international conference proceedings)

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Even with the newly issued and adopted Course of Study by the Japanese Ministry of Sports, Education, and Science, and Technology (MEXT), the use of English in junior high and high school English classrooms is far from 100 percent. The current project used individual interviews to investigate the professional development of English teachers at public schools in Okinawa, Japan, using the Trajectory Equifinality Approach (TEA, Valsiner & Sato, 2006). In this paper, the TEA charts of two junior high school teachers and six high school teachers are compared, with an emphasis on the effects of their study abroad experiences on attaining the Teaching English in English (TEE) stage (i.e., equifinality point). The findings revealed that the nature of their overseas experience caused the differences in the acquisition of practical means to pursue TEE. More specifically, majors other than TESL significantly improved the participating teachers’ English command. They did not, however, necessarily provide practical ideas for conducting TEE, whereas studying TESL served as a psychological foundation for not abandoning TEE even when the students’ proficiency levels were insufficient to understand the teachers’ English use. TEE is thought to be important in developing students’ classroom proficiency, and study abroad experience for teachers is often thought to be desirable. However, the impact of such experiences must be carefully examined during professional development.
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International and Intercultural Understanding Education Deepened through Interactive Learning: Classroom Practice with Video Project and Silent Discussion at an Immersion Junior High School

( 14 ) 42 - 62 2023.03

Type of publication: Research paper (research society, symposium materials, etc.)
Reading the TIME Articles under the COVID-19 Pandemic -An Attempt of the First Online Teaching-

TOYA, Mitsuyo

Language Learning and Educational Linguistics 2021-2022 2021 29 - 46 2022.03 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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This paper aims at reporting the author's first attempt of teaching an online course for Japanese college learners of English. The class objective was to enhance their English communication skills in the four areas, i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing using the real-time TIME online articles. Although the syllabus had been determined based on the national teaching licensing curriculum in 2017, the first implementation in Spring 2020 fell into the forced online teaching due to the coronavirus pandemic. The class utilized multiple online platforms such as Webclass, Google Forms, Flipgrid, Teams, MS Stream with the course designed as close as possible to the original face-to-face classroom. The author reflects and examines this online teaching and reports the advantages of authentic materials in the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic.