Academic Profile – Warren M Tang

Education

  • PhD Candidate (Hiroshima University, 2010 to present)
  • M.Ed (Hiroshima University, 2009)
  • B.A. (University of Newcastle, 1994)

Publications

  • Frequencies of the Spatial Prepositions AT, ON and IN in Native and Non-native Corpora (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University (2012) Part II, Vol. 61. Pp. 219-228.)

National Presentations

  • Teaching function words: cognitive and corpus linguistic perspectives (JALT PanSIG Conference, Hiroshima University, 16 June 2012)
  • Linear Corpus Modelling (Japan Association English Corpus Studies, Tokyo, Japan. 2010)

Local Presentations

  • Four people talk about how they acquired Japanese as a second language (25 November, 2012)
  • Zen and (the Art of) English Language Teaching (Hiroshima JET Orientation Program, 15 August 2012)
  • An Introduction to Corpus Lingsuistic Tools (as technical support for Kenneth Fordyce and Simon Frazer, Hiroshima University, Japan. 2011)
  • Corpus Linguistics Workshop for English Language Teachers (JALT, Hiroshima, Japan. 2010)
  • Corpus Linguistics and Vocabulary Instruction (with Kenneth Fordyce, ETJ Expo, Hiroshima, Japan. 2010)
  • A Study of the Effects of Frequency on Implicit Vocabulary Learning (JACET, Hiroshima, Japan. 2008)
  • A Deconstruction of Three Kawabata Yasunari Short Stories (Japan Comparative Literature Association. Fukuoka, Japan. 1999)

Miscellaneous

  • JALT PanSIG 2012 Sub-committee (Local Publicity, 2012)
  • Hiroshima JALT Committee (Publicity Chair, 2010)

Keywords

cognitive corpus linguistics, cognitive grammar, spatial semantics, preposition, conceptual metaphor, philosophy of language, second language acquisition, english language teaching.

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