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Dr Kazuya Saito
612a
20 Bedforway
London
Appointment
- Associate Professor in TESOL & Applied Linguistics
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
Affiliation
-Present: Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL, University College London
2015-2018: Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition, Birkbeck College, University of London
2012-2015: Assistant Professor of English, Waseda University
2011-2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
Education
2008-2011: PhD in Second Language Education, McGill University
2005-2007: M.A. in Linguistics, Syracuse University
Ongoing selected projects
Training a good ear predicts successful second language acquisition: Interfacing neuroscience, hearing, and education research perspectives (2020-2022)
v $50,000 from the Spencer Foundation (USA)
Does having a good ear promote successful L2 speech learning? A behavioural and neural investigation (2020-2023)
v £233,813 from the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant (UK)
Interfacing education and neuroscience perspectives on the cognitive foundation of successful foreign language learning: A Series of Workshops and Symposiums in the UK and Japan (2019-2021)
v £50,294 from the Economic and Social Research Council UK-JAPAN Connection Grant (UK)
Research Groups
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Web
Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RT1sLOYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&is_public_preview=1
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kazuya_Saito4
Research interests
My research interests cover a wide range of topics in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Education, and Psycholinguistics. Specifically, I am interested in the assessment, development, and teaching of adult second language (L2) speech.
Teaching Summary
Areas of research supervision
http://kazuyasaito.net/Kazuya_SLA_Lab/labindex.html
- Second language acquisition
- Second language speech (pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary)
- Effects of instruction (corrective feedback; task)
- Age and experience effects on second language acquisition
- Aptitude and motivation in second language acquisition
- Pronunciation teaching
- Fluency training
- Listening teaching
