Education

B.A., Hons (University of Newcastle,1993)

M.Ed (Hiroshima University, 2009)

PhD Candidate (Hiroshima University, present)

Presentations

A Deconstruction of Three Kawabata Yasunari Short Stories (Japanese Literature Society (regional). Fukuoka, Japan. 1999).

A Study of the Effects of Frequency on Implicit Vocabulary Learning (JACET (regional), Hiroshima, Japan. 2008).

Corpus Linguistics and Vocabulary Instruction (with Kenneth Fordyce, ETJ Expo (regional), Hiroshima, Japan. 2010).

Corpus Linguistics Workshop for English Language Teachers (JALT (regional), Hiroshima, Japan. 2010).

Linear Corpus Modelling (Japan Association English Corpus Studies (national), Tokyo, Japan. 2010).

An Introduction to Corpus Lingsuistic Tools (with Kenneth Fordyce and Simon Frazer, Hiroshima University, Japan. 2011).

Miscellaneous

Hiroshima JALT Committee (Publicity Chair, 2010)

JALT PanSIG 2012 Sub-committee (Local Publicity, 2012)

Keywords

corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, spatial prepositions, second language acquisition, english language teaching.