Qualifications Bachelor of Arts - Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Masters of Arts - Bond University Doctor of Philosophy - University of South Australia Masanori spent 7 years in banking business in Japan before he started teaching Japanese as a second language at language institutes in Tokyo, where for 5 years he also taught some teacher training courses for the prospective teachers of Japanese language. His interest in teaching Japanese expanded and brought him to Australia. First, he joined Bond University as a student for the Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics. After the completion of the degree, he started his doctoral research studies and joined the Faculty as an academic staff member. He completed his PhD at the University of South Australia, and continues to study students' motivation and successful second language acquisition.
Articles
Second language learners' motivation and their perception of their teachers as an affecting factor, New Zealand Studies of Applied Linguistics (2011)
International students learning English as a second language in Australia were studied to find how...
Persistence in Japanese language study and learners’ cultural/linguistics backgrounds, Australian review of applied linguistics (2009)
Motivational characteristics of students learning Japanese as a foreign language at universities in Australia were...
Motivational factors and persistence in learning Japanese as a foreign language (with Yasuko Obana), New Zealand journal of Asian studies (2001)
Extract:
This paper aims to discuss correlation of motivation with learning Japanese as a...
Books
Persistence in Japanese language study in universities in Australia: Why do university students drop out of the language courses?, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2010)
Konnichiwa from Australia (with Masako Gavin), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1998)
Extract:
Although many Japanese grammar books are available to Australian students, we have found...
Conference Papers
Motivational changes and their affecting factors among students from different cultural backgrounds, CLaSIC 2012: The Fifth CLS International conference (2012)
University students (N = 140) learning second or foreign languages in Australia were investigated to...
Second language learners' motivation and their perceptions of teachers' motivation, Paper presented at the international conference on teaching and learning in higher education 2009: Quality learning in higher education (2009)
International students learning English as a second language in Australia were studied to find how...
Persistence in Japanese language study and motivation, Paper presented at the Educating: Weaving research into practice: 2nd annual international conference on cognition, language, and special education research (2004)
The diminishing number of students in second language learning (SLL) at more advanced level of...