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ひびきのキャンパス

Kiyomi OKAMOTO

Kiyomi OKAMOTO

Title Associate Professor
Degree Master of Arts
Department Center for Fundamental Education, Hibikino
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Education 2006: MA in Foreign Language Education, Kansai University
Employment History 2008: School of Engineering, Osaka University
2008-2012: Center for Language Research, University of Aizu
Teaching Activities For undergraduates:
English Communication I/II
English Literacy I/II

For graduate students:
English for Science and Technology
Research Interest English for specific purposes
Corpus linguistics
Vocabulary acquisition
Publications *Thesis
A Comparison of academic vocabulary between the disciplines of nursing and medicine: A corpus-based study, MA Thesis Submitted to Kansai University, 2006.

*Book chapters
K. Okamoto, Y. Yasumuro, E. Yamamoto & M. Fuyuki (2009). From a Language Learner to a Language User: An Alternative Approach to ESP Teaching. V. K. Bhatia,W. Cheng, B. D. Babcock and J. Lun (Eds.), Language for Professional Communication Research, Practice & Training, 250-257.

K. Okamoto, H.Dan, E. Yamamoto & M. Fuyuki (2007). A Collaborative Approach to ESP Teaching on CEAS. J. Yoshida and H. Sasabe (Eds.), Next Generation Photonics and Media Technologies, 206-209, PWC Publishing.

K. Okamoto (2007). Do Nurses Use the Same Words as Doctors in Research Articles?: A Corpus-based Comparative Study of Academic Vocabulary between Nursing and Medicine. 齋藤榮二先生記念論文集編集委員会(編)Explorations of English language instruction : papers in honor of professor Eiji Saito on his retirement from Kansai University, 245-255, Sanseido.

*Research articles

K. Okamoto (2010). Incorporating Corpora into English Language Teaching for Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Students with Limited Proficiency. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 152-156.

K. Okamoto (2009). Introductory ESP: A Multifaceted Blended Learning Approach. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Humans and Computers, 240-244.

K. Okamoto, H.Dan, E. Yamamoto & M. Fuyuki (2007).Consolidative ESP. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 2007.

<Honours>
Student Prize, IEEE Kansa Chapter(2009)

Encouragement Prize, Japan e-Learning Association(2008)

Student Award First Prize, 7th Chitose International Forum on Photonics Science and Technology (2007)
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