Researcher and Faculty Information

Hisashi Ishino Ishino Nao

ISHINO Nao

Research Topics: Linguistics English Studies Syntax Language Acquisition Theory

comment: During the process of learning a second language, an intermediate language system that contains errors appears. Our research aims to verify this language ability, called interlanguage, with empirical data and to provide a theoretical explanation. We mainly focus on the interlanguage in the process of English acquisition by native Japanese speakers, and analyze questions such as how acquisition proceeds, what kinds of errors occur, and why, and why acquisition is difficult, based on Japanese and English syntax (sentence construction).

Main publications and papers: Feature Transfer in L2 Acquisition: With special reference to reflexive binding (co-author, 2010, The Proceedings of the Eleventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Hitsuji Shobo)

Error-driven teaching in L2 and the application of parametric shift (Single author, 2010, The Edgewood Review 36, Kobe College)

Selective transfer of zibun-zisin and the L2 acquisition of reflexives (Single author, 2010, Kansai English Literature Studies, Vol. 4, published by the Kansai Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan)

Syntactic Feature Transfer and Reflexive Binding in Interlanguage (Single author, 2012, English Linguistics 29.1, published by the Japan Society of English Linguistics)

Syntactic Mechanism Analysis and Parameter Theory of Distributive Binding (co-author, 2013, English and American Literature, Vol. 57, published by the Kwansei Gakuin University English and American Literature Society)

Main classes taught: "English," "English Pronunciation," "English Presentation," "Cross-Cultural Studies," "Getting Familiar with American and European Culture," and "English Studies."