Here are some topics that some of the professors in the General Studies Division at AGU are researching and links to some of the papers that they have published in the journal Foreign Languages & Literature.

2211 Sasaki, Makoto--Text analysis using "sentaku" systemic functional linguistics

2214 Sugiura, Katsuya--

2215 Kondo, Hiroshi--Life and works of Charles Dickens

2216 Dioron, Heather--L2 reading anxiety

(2023). Critique of a Research Study: Does Reading-While-Listening Enhance Studets' Reading Fluency? Preliminary Results from School Experiments in Rural Udanda. Foreign Languages & Literature, 48/1, pp. 123-129.

(2022). Online Expansive Reading. Foreign Languages & Literature, 47/1, pp. 63-70.

2217 Kawaguchi, Yu-saku--Use of computers in foreign language education

2218 Yoshii, Ko-shiro--Novels of Thomas Hardy

2219 Fujita, Atsushi--Modern American drama

2220 Washitake, Masamichi--Text analysis using "sentaku" systemic functional linguistics

(2022). Reading Popular Science Magazines: A Systemic Functional Perspective on Choosing Teaching Materials toward Academic Reading. Foreign Languages & Literature, 47/1, pp. 3-19.

2222 Yamaguchi, Hitoshi--Poetry reading

2223 Sugai, Daichi

2225 Konoko

2226 Notestine, Russell--American culture

(2011). Forrest Gump vs. The Graduate: Contrasting Views of the 1960's. Foreign Languages & Literature, 36/1, pp. 121-130.

(2008). The Pros and Cons of Student Evaluation of Faculty. Foreign Languages & Literature, 33/1, pp. 85-100.

2227 Gagne, Glenn--Language testing

and Oda, Merissa (2022). Factors Affecting the Language Learning Strategies of Japanese University Students. Foreign Languages & Literature, 47/1, pp. 39-62.

(2016). Practical English Instruction for Pharmacists: Explaining How to Administer Medications. Foreign Languages & Literature, 41/1, pp. 29-44.

2314 Ishikawa, Kazuhisa--Generative grammar

2318 Katsumata, Takashi--Folk art of northern China

2319 Sawada, Mayumi--Historical English linguistics

2322 Nakamura, Aya--

2323 Shu, Shinken--Comparitive Chinese phonetics

2324 Maeyama, Shintaro--

2327 Moon, Hijin--Comparison of Japanese and Korean cultures

2416 Fukuyama, Satoru--19th and 20th century German literature

2417 Itoigawa, Osamu--Viennesse literature at the end of the 19th century

2418 Hotta, Toshiyuki--

2420 Noda, Hiroshi--

Teachers that have retired OR left the department:

Blair, R. Jeffrey--Applied linguistics

[see Blair's research index page]

Lightburn, Jane--Mythology, folktales, and fairytales

(2019). The Reimagination of Magic in the Film of Hayao Miyazaki. Foreign Languages & Literature, 44/1, pp. 33-61.

(2017). Looking In, Looking Back: Dream and Flashback in the Early Film of Hayao Miyazaki. Foreign Languages & Literature, 42/1, pp. 107-130.

(2014). Beauty and the Beast: Hayao Miyazaki and the Illustrated Fairytale. Foreign Languages & Literature, 39/1, pp. 131-145.

(2010). Through the Eyes of a Child: Aspects of Narrative in Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Foreign Languages & Literature, 35/1, pp. 97-113.

(2008). The Heart of the Heroine: A Virtue-Based Approach to the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki. Foreign Languages & Literature, 33/1, pp. 63-83.

Nishitani, Mariko--British and Irish poetry

(2017). Visiting Wake Forest University Press: An interview with Jefferson Holdridge and Amanda Keith. Foreign Languages & Literature, 42/1, pp. 229-235.

Pomatie, David--Childhood spirituality and Kenyan education

(2007). Westernization and English Education in the Meiji Public Schools. Foreign Languages & Literature, 32/1, pp. 117-145.