Center for Language Education and Research

The Center for Language Education and Research conducts educational and research activities with the goal of further enriching and developing foreign language education, enabling students to acquire skills in a variety of foreign languages necessary to a globalized world and cultural diversification.

For more information on language education at Sophia University and the latest news on the John Nissel Cup, please visit the Center for Language Education and Research (CLER) website at Sophia University.

CLER

Faculty Members

Director

Tamotsu FUJITA Professor

Research Areas	Second Language Acquisition，Bilingualism，TESOL
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Research Areas	Spanish Language Education，Linguistics
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Research Areas	Second Language Acquisition，Interlanguage Pragmatics，Japanese Language Pedagogy
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Research Areas	English Literature
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Research Areas	German Phonetics，Phonetic Education
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Research Areas	Pedagogical Japanese Grammar & Vocabulary，History of the Japanese Language，Japanese Language Pedagogy
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Research Areas	Second Language Education，Emotion and Learning，Individual Psychology (Adlerian Psychology)
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Research Areas	Japanese-Korean Contrastive Linguistics
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Research Areas	Applied Linguistics，Language Testing，English as a Lingua Franca
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Research Areas	Applied Linguistics，TESOL
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Center for Language Education and Research

Faculty Members

Director Tamotsu FUJITA Professor

Deputy Director Yoshimi HIROYASU Professor

Ayako KITAMURA Special Contract Professor

Kaoru KOYANAGI Special Contract Professor

Fuyuki MINE Professor

Takafumi SHIMIZU Professor

Yoshiaki SUGIKI Professor

Wanting HUANG Professor

Akiko MASAKI Professor

Itsuki NAGASAWA Professor

Yasushi FURUTA Associate Professor

Yasuhiro IMAI Associate Professor

Ahran KIM Associate Professor

Takanori SATO Associate Professor

Katsuya YOKOMOTO Associate Professor

Matthew SCHAEFER Associate Professor by Special Appointment

Elisa ACOSTA Lecturer

Alexander BABULALL Lecturer

Garcia CHAMBERS Lecturer

Brendan GARLAND Lecturer

Reginald GENTRY Lecturer

Michelle JERREMS Lecturer

Mayumi KAWASHIMA Lecturer

Koji KOBAYASHI Lecturer

Angelina KOVALYOVA Lecturer

Jason McEVOY Lecturer

Mana MEHRENBERGER Lecturer

Aiko MINEMATSU Lecturer

Jennifer MORGAN Lecturer

Mika NAGASU Lecturer

Masayuki OKADO Lecturer

Shigenori OYAIZU Lecturer

Philip PATRICK Lecturer

Ignacio QUIROS Lecturer

Tokiko SERA Lecturer

Asami SUZUKI Lecturer

Kinsella VALIES Lecturer

Michael WALKER Lecturer

Kanako YAO Lecturer

Zhang Tong Lecturer

Director

Tamotsu FUJITA Professor

Deputy Director

Yoshimi HIROYASU Professor