last modified：2025/10/09
Associate Professor YAMAMURA, Kimie
Faculty, Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts and Science
College and School Educational Field
Laboratory
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Language and Information Sciences Accomplished credits for doctoral program
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
University of Tsukuba College of Comparative Culture
【Degree】
Doctor of Philosophy
Career
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
Writing Centers Association of Japan
Award
Specialities
Applied linguistics, Qualitative applied linguistics, Language education
Speciality Keywords
Situated qualitative research, multimodal analysis of interaction, learning and teaching of skills, self-access resource centers
Research Themes
Books
Papers
- Washback from Four-Skills English Exams in the Japanese Secondary School Context David Allen, Kimie Yamamura, Sayaka Meguro, & Takamichi Nakamura Language Assessment Quarterly 21 4–5 473–505 2024/12/16
- The Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Self-study Activity and Vocabulary Test Scores in an EAP Course Dale Brown, Michiko Yaguchi, Kimie Yamamura, Eisuke Kawada, Jacob Runner, Mami Kanno, Kana Oyabu Forum of Language Instructors 19 5–16 2025/03
- Insights into Learning Support in Writing Centers: Aiming for steady advancement of the Kanazawa University Library Writing Center Yamamura, Kimie Forum of Language Instructors 18 49–69 2024/03
- STEM students’ in-between identities and ambiguous desires toward learning EFL writing. In Glen Hill, Joseph Falout, & Matthew Apple (Eds). STEM English in Japan: Education, Innovation, and Motivation Kimie Yamamura pp. 259–279 2022
- The discourse of kyōyō and English Education in Japan. Yamamura, K, Gakutani, R., Karpinska, M., Tanojiri, T., Gally, T. Komaba Journal of English Education 10 23-39 2019
- Unproduced text and unexpressed ideas: Compromise and give-up in the L2 writing process Kimie Yamamura Language and information sciences 16 143–159 2018
- Science tutorials in an English-language program for science students Kimie Yamamura, Vasques, D. T., Gally, T. Komaba Journal of English Education 7 73–97 2016/03
Conference Presentations
- Reimagining embodied learning: Sociocognitive alignment through hands-on practice in occupational therapy training(conference：American Association for Applied Linguistics 2026 Conference)(2026/03/21)
- Investigating ecologies of multilingual writing(conference：American Association for Applied Linguistics 2026 Conference)(2026/03/21)
- Object-mediated learning: Understanding the “sowaseru (fitting)” skill with elastic materials in occupational therapy training (conference：American Association for Applied Linguistics 2025 Conference)(2025/03/22)
- Expanding the boundaries of writing centers: Supporting writers’ academic practices(conference：The 14th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia)(2025/02/15)
- The assemblage of EFL researchers' social practice in English(conference：The 21st World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA))(2024/08/13)
- A longitudinal study of identity and desire transformation in writing scientific papers in English [Round Table](conference：American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024 Conference)(2024/03/16)
- Motivations for STEM Students Learning EFL: Teacher Research (STEM Students’ In-Between Identities)(conference：49th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition (JALT2023))(2023/11/26)
- Washback in High School: Four-Skills and Traditional Exams(conference：49th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition (JALT2023))(2023/11/25)
- The impact of Cambridge exams and traditional university exams in a high school in Japan(conference：Annual Conference, Asian Association of Language Assessment (AALA).)(2023/09/03)
- A study of Cambridge B1 Preliminary and B2 First in the Japanese high school context(conference：The 10th New Directions Conference)(2022/12/09)
- Pipette talk? [Online presentation]. In G. Budach & C. Kell (Convenors), New materialist and post-humanist perspectives in sociolinguistic/educational research: Engaging with current critiques [Colloquium]. (conference：Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (SS24))(2022/07/13)
- Performing experiments with ants and bananas for EFL scientific writing: Alloplastic amalgamation shaping the assemblages of “science”(conference：The 19th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA))(2021/08/19)
- The spatial repertoire of tutorials on experiments for EFL scientific writing(conference：The 2021 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL))(2021/03/20)
- The assemblage and spatial repertoire of tutorials on experiments for EFL scientific writing [Accepted Individual Presentation].(conference：The 2020 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). )(2020/03/03)
- A preliminary study on students’ cultural capital in project-based scientific writing. (conference：The 12th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia.)(2020/02/23)
- Tutors’ networked practices and tutor-tutee interactions of heterogeneous semiotic resources: Assemblages of students’ EFL scientific writing(conference：The 2019 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL))(2019/03/09)
- A Community of Scientific Practice Shaped by Negotiated Identities of Peripheral Members: The Ecology of Science Tutorials.(conference：JACET 56th International Convention)(2017/08/29)
- Science writing as sociopolitical practice: A case of resistance by a Japanese first-year science undergraduate(conference：The 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA))(2017/07/25)
- Science tutorials for an EFL scientific writing course at a Japanese university: Telling identities being built through LPP(conference：The 2017 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL))(2017/03/18)
- Transmission of language and expertise in tutorials for science students taking an English-Language Program. (conference：The 8th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia)(2016/03/05)
- Three-way tutorials for creating a simulated STEM community(conference：The 7th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia)(2015/03/07)
- Determination of places that need feedback(conference：40th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition)(2014/11/23)
- An interview study using stimulated recall(conference：The 6th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia,)(2014/03/08)
- ALESS: Collaborative Tutorials by Science and Writing TAs(conference：The 5th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia)(2013/04/20)
Others
- What are the benefits of using the Writing Center at university? Kimie Yamamura Kanazawa University Library Newsletter Kodama 2025/10/01
- The Realities and Challenges Faced by Writing Centers in Japan and the Path Forward Through the Thirteenth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia Kimie Yamamura, Maiko Nakatake Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders A Blog of WLN: A journal of Writing Center Scholarship 2023/09/15
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○「英語語彙・表現の複雑な習得過程の解明：理系研究者を対象とした質的調査」(2025-2027)
○「「分散した」言語現象としての科学英語論文に備える執筆教育プログラム構築」(2020-2024)
Competitive research funding,Contribution
○The assemblage of EFL researchers' social practice in English Travel Grant Awards Murata Science and Education Foundation(2024-2024)
○Exploring learning resources supporting EFL academic writing: Development of students’ cultural capital Grants for Research Projects Related to SDGs Aoyama Gakuin University Research Institute (2019-2019)
○Science writing as sociopolitical practice: A case of resistance by a Japanese first-year science undergraduate Travel Grant Awards Shibusawa Ethnology Funds (2017-2017)
Collaborative research,Consignment study
○Cambridge English Funded Research Programme: Investigating the impact of Cambridge B1 Preliminary and B2 First in a senior high school in Tokyo(2021-2022)