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Yukio Tono's CV †
BIODATA †
EDUCATION †
- Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
- Ph.D. in Corpus Linguistics 2002
- Dissertation: “The Role of Learner Corpora in Second Language Acquisition Research and Foreign Language Learning: The Multiple Comparison Approach”
- Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, JAPAN
- M.Ed. in TEFL 1986
- Thesis: “Exploring cognitive processes of idiom look-up operations”
- Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, JAPAN
- B.Ed. in TEFL 1984
- Thesis: “On the Dictionary User’s Reference Skills”(Reviewed in LEXICOGRAPHICA in 1985)
- Hibiya High School, Tokyo, JAPAN
- I was a president of the Music Club (chorus + orchestra) and sang "Dai 9" (Beethoven's Sym Nr.9) for the 100th Anniversary.
RESEARCH INTEREST †
- Corpus Linguistics
- Corpus-Based Second Language Acquisition
- L2 Dictionary user research
- L2 vocabulary acquisition
- L2 lexicography
- Applications of corpora for language learning & teaching
- Text mining
- Statistics (SPSS; R)
AWARDS †
- JACET Award for Distinguished Scholar
- JACET = Japan Association for College English Teachers
- JACET Award is one of the most prestigious awards for university English teachers to show excellence in research.
- I received this award twice:
- 2003: Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning: Focus on Reading Comprehension.（Lexicographica Series Major 106）Tubingen: Max Niemeyer.
- 2008: English Lexicography in Japan. JACET 英語辞書研究会編. 大修館. 2006 (石川慎一郎、南出康世、村田年、投野由紀夫 共同編集)
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS †
- STEP English Proficiency Test 1st grade (英検1級）
- United Nations Association's Test Special A grade (国連英検 特A級）
- Teacher's certificate for junior and senior high schools (専修教員免許状）
ADMINISTRATIVE/TEACHING EXPERIENCE †
- Meikai University, Urayasu, CHIBA
- 2006 - 2007
- Head of the English department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures
- Meikai University, Urayasu, CHIBA
- 2005 - 2007
- Professor, Graduate School of Applied Linguistics
- Taught both postgraduate and undergraduate programs. Supervised 20+ MA students in 2002-2005.
- Meikai University, Urayasu, CHIBA
- 2001 - 2004
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures
- Design and administer undergraduate programs. Supervised MA students.
- Tokyo Gakugei University, Musashikoganei, TOKYO
- 1990 - 1998
- Assistant Professor, Department of English
- Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in TEFL; Supervised M.Ed and B.Ed students.
- Part time teaching in the past
- Graduate School, Showa Women's University
- Graduate School, Hosei University
- School of Law, Keio University
- TEFL, Seikei University
- TEFL, Japan Christian Junior College
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE †
- Shogakukan, INC
- Consultant, Corpus Manager for the Shogakukan Corpus Network
- 1999-Present
- Help produce the web query interface of BNC, WBO, PERC, JEFLL, among others for the Shogakukan Corpus Network
- Nihon Hoso Kyokai (NHK)
- Instructor, Program designer
- 2003-2005
- Designed the corpus-based English language teaching syllabus for a 10-minute English-conversation program, titled “100-Go De START Eikaiwa”100語でスタート！英会話. Also appeared on screen for commenting today’s points.
- 2009
- Tokyo Shoseki, Inc.
- 2008 - present
- Produced vocabulary books (tango-cho) called "Corpus 1600", "Corpus 3000", "Corpus 4500", which have been very popular in high schools.
- See the shop page at Tokyo Shoseki HERE
- ALC Press
- 1997-1999
- Produced the Standard Vocabulary List 12000 (supervised by Ken Kanatani)
- See the details of SVL12000 HERE
- Sanseido Publishing Co.Ltd.
- 2008
- Produced my first English-Japanese dictionary "ACE CROWN English-Japanese Dictionary"
- Become a very popular paper dictionary for high schools
- See the official web page HERE
- Benesse Corporation
- The GTEC for STUDENTS Writing Corpus (15,000 students with GTEC scores).
- Cerego
- Academic advisor
- Designed the collocation learning programs for Smart.fm
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS (ENGLISH ONLY) †
- You can see the list of all the publications and links to my papers in PDF HERE
BOOKS †
- Ishikawa, S., Minamide, K., Murata, M., and Tono, Y. (eds.) (2006) English Lexicography in Japan. Tokyo: Taishukan Publishing Co. (*JACET award 2008)
- MeEnery?, T., Xiao, R. and Tono, Y. (2005) Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book. London: Routledge.
- Murata, M., Yamada, S. and Tono, Y. (eds.) Dictionaries and Language Learning: How can Dictionaries Help Human & Machine Learning? Papers submitted to the Third ASIALEX Biennial International Conference. Meikai University, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, August 27-29, 2003. Urayasu: The Asian Association for Lexicography.
- Tono, Y. Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning. (LEXICOGRAPHICA Series Maior 106) Tu"bingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 2001. (*JACET award 2003)
PAPERS †
- Corpus-Based Reasearch and Its Implications for Second Language Acquisition and English Language Teaching. Tien-en Kao and Yaofu Lin(eds.) (2010) A New Look at Language Teaching and Testing: English as Subject and Vehicle. The Language Training and Testing Center, pp.155-173.
- Learner Corpus Research: Some Recent Trends. In Weir, G.and Ishikawa, S. (eds.) (2010) Corpus, ICT, and Language Education. University of Strathclyde Publishing, pp.7-17.
- A Critical Review of the Theory of Lexicographical Functions. LEXICON, No.40: 1-26.
- The potential of learner corpora for pedagogical lexicography. In Ooi, V., Pakir, A., Talib, I., and Tan, P. (eds.) (2009) Perspectives in Lexicography: Asia and beyond K DICTIONARIES LTD pp.105-115.
- The Role of Corpus Linguistics in Redefining SLA. In Hankook Munhwasa (ed.) (2009) Current Issues in Linguistic Interfaces (Volume 2).
- Pocket Electronic Dictionaries in Japan: User Perspectives. In Henning Bergenholtz, Sandra Nielsen, Sven Tarp (eds.) (2009) Lexicography at a Crossroads: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Today， Lexicographical Tools Tomorrow Peter Lang Pub Inc pp.33-67.
- Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition. In Paul Baker (ed.)(2009) Contemporary Corpus Linguistics. Continuum Intl Publ Group, pp.185-203.
- Pocket electronic dictionaries in Japan: User perspectives. In Henning Bergenholtz, Nielsen, S. and Tarp, S. (eds.) (2009) Lexicography at a Crossroads: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Today， Lexicographical Tools Tomorrow. Peter Lang Pub Inc., pp.33-67
- Variability and invariability in learner language: A corpus-based approach. In Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi, and Jacques Durand (eds.) (2009) Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics. John Benjamins Pub Co., pp. 67-82
- The Roles of Oral L2 Learner Corpora in Language Teaching: the Case of the NICT JLE Corpus. In M. C. Campoy and Luzon, M. J. (eds.) (2007) Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics, Peter Lang Pub Inc., pp. 163-179
- Noguchi, J., T. Orr, & Y. Tono (2006) Using a dedicated corpus to identify features of professional English usage: What do “we” do in science journal articles? In Andrew Wilson, Dawn Archer and Paul Rayson (eds.) (2006) Corpus Linguistics Around the World. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, pp.155-166.
- Exploring the potential of learner corpora for pedagogical lexicography. In Ooi, V. et al. (eds.) (2005) Words in Asian Cultural Contexts: Proceedings of the 4th Asialex Conference, pp.315-321.
- Japanese lexicography. In K.Brown (ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Vol.6, pp.105-109. Elsevier.
- Corpus-Based SLA Research: State of the Art of Learner Corpus Studies. In Minami, M., Kobayashi, H., Nakayama, M. & Sirai, H. (eds.) (2005) Studies in Language Sciences (4): 45-77. Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishers.
- Multiple comparisons of IL, L1 and TL corpora: the case of L2 acquisition of verb subcategorization patterns by Japanese learners of English. In Guy Aston, S. Bernardini, & Dominic Stewart (eds.)(2004) Corpora and Language Learners. John Benjamins, pp. 45-66.
- Research on the use of electronic dictionaries for language learning: methodological considerations. In M.Carmen Campoy & Pilar Safont (eds.) (2004). Computer-Mediated Lexicography in the Foreign Language Learning Context, Universitat Jaume-I, pp. 13-28.
- Nakamura, T. and Tono, Y. (2003) Lexical profiling using the Shogakukan Language Toolbox. In Murata, Yamada & Tono (eds.) Dictionaries and Language Learning: How can Dictionaries Help Human & Machine Learning?, pp. 170-176. Asialex 2003 Proceedings.
- What corpora can do for English Language Teaching. English Corpus Studies 10 (2003), 249-265.
- Noguchi, J., Orr, T. & Tono, Y. (2003) Using a dedicated corpus to identify features of professional English usage: What do “we” do in science journal articles? In: Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson, and Tony McEnery? (eds.) Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 Conference. UCREL technical papers Volume 16. Special issue.
- Nakamura, T. and Tono, Y. A lexicographer's workbench for new word selection & identification: web-server-based automatic identification of neologism candidates and the client editing system. Studies in Lexicography 11 (1), 127-138. 2002.
- Tono, Y., Kaneko, T., Isahara, H., Saiga, T. and Izumi, E., The Standard Speaking Test Corpus. Studies in Lexicography 11 (2), 7-18. 2002.
- Review of Pedagogical Lexicography Today by Dolezal & McCreary?, Language 77 (4). 2002.
- Tono, Y., H. Iwasaki, T. Nakamura, M. Suzuki and E. Egawa, Shogakukan Corpus Query System in Collaboration with the American National Corpus Project. Lee, S. (ed.) ASIALEX 2001 Proceedings: Asian Bilingualism and the Dictionary. The Second Asialex International Congress, August 8-10, 2001, Yonsei University, Korea, pp. 231-235.
- Tono, Y., Kaneko, T., Isahara, H., Saiga, T. and Izumi, E., The Standard Speaking Test Corpus: a 1 million-word spoken corpus of Japanese learners of English and its implications for L2 lexicography. Lee, S. (ed.) ASIALEX 2001 Proceedings: Asian Bilingualism and the Dictionary. The Second Asialex International Congress, August 8-10, 2001, Yonsei University, Korea, pp. 257-262.
- Nakamura, T. and Tono, Y. A lexicographer's workbench for new word selection & identification. Lee, S. (ed.) ASIALEX 2001 Proceedings: Asian Bilingualism and the Dictionary. The Second Asialex International Congress, August 8-10, 2001, Yonsei University, Korea, pp. 156-161.
- On the effects of different types of electronic dictionary interfaces on L2 learners' reference behaviour in productive/ receptive tasks. In Heid, U., Evert, S., Lehmann, E. and Rohrer, C. (eds.) (2000) Proceedings of the 9th EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2000. Stuttgart: Institut fur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universitat Stuttgart, pp. 855-862.
- A computer learner corpus-based analysis of the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes. In Burnard, L. and McEnery?, T. (eds.) (2000) Rethinking Language Pedagogy from a Corpus Perspective: Papers from the third international conference on Teaching and Language Corpora. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 123-132.
- A corpus-based analysis of interlanguage development: Analysing part-of-speech tag sequences of EFL learner corpora. In Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. and Melia, J.P. (eds.) (2000) PALC'99: Practical Applications in Language Corpora. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp.323-340.
- Developmental patterns of Japanese EFL learners' POS tag trigrams. Japanese Society for Language Sciences: First Conference Handbook, pp. 13-16. 1999.
- Tono, Y. and Aoki, M. (1998) Developing the optimal learning list of irregular verbs based on the native and learner corpora. In: First International Symposium on Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching: Symposium Proceedings (14-16 December, 1998. The Chinese University of Hong Kong), pp. 113-118.
- Interacting with the users: research findings in EFL dictionary user studies. In McArthur??, T. and Kernerman, I. (eds.) (1998) Lexicography in Asia: selected papers form the Dictionaries in Asia Conference, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1997 and other papers. Jerusalem: Password Publishers Ltd, pp.97-118.
- Learner Corpora and SLA: morpheme acquisition order revisited. TALC98 Proceedings, 1998.
- Guide Word or Signpost?: an experimental study on the effect of meaning access indexes in EFL learners' dictionaries. English Studies, 28: 55-77. 1997.
- Using Learner Corpora for L2 Lexicography. LEXIKOS 6 (AFRILEX SERIES 6) (1996), Stellenbosch: Universiteit van Stellenbosch.
- TONO, Yukio & KANATANI, Ken (1996) EFL Learners’ Proficiency and Roles of Feedback: Towards the Most Appropriate Feedback for EFL Writing. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 6, pp.1-11.
- The Effect of Menus on EFL Learners' Look-up Processes. LEXIKOS 2 (AFRILEX SERIES 2) (1992), 229-253. Stellenbosch: Universiteit van Stellenbosch.
- Can a Dictionary Help One Read Better? On the Relationship between E.F.L. Learners' Dictionary Reference Skills and Reading Comprehension. Gregory James (ed.) (1989) Lexicographers and Their Works. (Exeter Linguistic Studies Vol.14, Ed. Gregory James), pp.192-200.
ACADEMIC SERVICES †
- Vice President, Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX)
- Editorial board, International Journal of Lexicography (Oxford University Press)
- Editorial advisory board, Corpora (Edinburgh University Press)
- Editorial advisory board, The Dictionary (Polimetrica Publisher, Italy)
- Editorial board, Journal of Language and Literature (University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan)
- Academic committee, Corpus Linguistics 2011, Birmingham
- Executive board, Japanese Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS)
- Scientific commission (Lexicology and Lexicography), AILA
- Advisor, Urayasu-city Gateway to English Language Program (ELT at elementary school) 2004-2006
- Advisor, Super English Learning High School (SEL-Hi) program, Showa Women’s University High School 2006-2008
- Advisor, Super English Learning High School (SEL-Hi) program, Yamato-Nishi High School 2006-2008
MEMBERSHIPS †
- Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
- Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS)
- Japan Association for College English Teachers (JACET)
- Japan Association for Language Teachers (JALT)
- Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX)
- European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX)
- British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
- AILA, SC for lexicology and lexicography (AILA)
- Gengo Shigen Konsoshiam (Language Resources Consortium) (GSK)
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