Faculty Database - Rubrecht Brian Guenter

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Conference Presentations

Academic Qualifications

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Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches

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（Last updated : 2024-12-02 15:41:48）

Rubrecht Brian Guenter
Department Undergraduate School , School of Commerce

Position Professor

■ Books and Papers

1.	2024/09	Book	Teaching paraphrasing in the age of AI 10(9),pp.40-43 (Single)
2.	2024/09	Book	Treating digital devices like the tools that they are JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG September 2024 Think Tank: Innovative Ideas 10(9),pp.44-46 (Single)
3.	2024/06	Article	Custom-made course administration spreadsheets as an electronic gradebook alternative Education and New Developments 2024: Volume 1 1,pp.323-327 (Single)
4.	2024/06	Article	Questioning Japan’s English-only and other language teaching communicative directives Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Education, Teaching and Learning 1(1),pp.1-12 (Single)
5.	2024/04	Book	Is there value in monitoring student course attendance? University World News (Single)
6.	2024/04	Article	Looking forward, looking backward: Using remote teaching and learning during COVID-19 to reexamine and reexplore the taking of student attendance Education in Crisis: Lessons from Today pp.166-187 (Single)
7.	2023/03	Book	Students' perspectives of attendance taking and student-teacher communication via the ARS during the first year of emergency remote teaching IICE 2023 (The IAFOR International Conference on Education in Hawaii) pp.135-151 (Single)
8.	2022/09	Article	Transforming student-teacher communication under COVID-19: Using the ARS to give students voice in remote Japanese university EFL courses, Part 1 ISLS Readings in Language Studies, Volume 9 9,pp.83-105 (Single)
9.	2022/03	Book	Examining the file renaming errors made by Japanese university EFL students during the first year of emergency remote teaching IICE 2022 (The IAFOR International Conference on Education in Hawaii) pp.1-17 (Single)
10.	2021/11	Book	Transforming teacher-student communication under COVID-19: Completing analyses of remote progress and information conveyance by students studying English as a foreign language at Japanese universities ICERI 2021 (14th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation) pp.218-227 (Single)
11.	2021/05	Book	Taking attendance at university: Some thoughts brought on by COVID-19 (Single)
12.	2021/02	Book	Student views of attendance at Japanese universities in the era of COVID-19: A preliminary look pp.185-199 (Single)
13.	2020/12	Article	Can clarity surpass familiarity? Japanese EFL learners’ /r/ and /l/ phoneme production post-pronunciation training as assessed by listeners with diverse English variety backgrounds Readings in Language Studies 8,pp.217-244 (Single)
14.	2020/09	Other	Using ARS: Promoting teacher-student interaction at a distance Teacher Journeys 2020: Experiences in Remote Teaching (Single)
15.	2020/06	Article	Program implementation without pedagogical standardization: A case of English language program teachers utilizing disparate classroom language policies The changing face of ESP in today's classroom and workplace pp.127-147 (Single)
16.	2020/01	Article	Examining the pitfalls behind a failed Japanese university ESP program English for specific purposes instruction and research: Current practices, challenges and innovation pp.105-123 (Single)
17.	2019/06	Article	Research, writing, and active learning in a specialized content class: The case of teaching and learning Western philosophy in English at a Japanese university 26(1),pp.35-47 (Single)
18.	2018/12	Article	A decade of the SOCEC Program: Lessons taught, lessons learned 537,pp.37-54 (Single)
19.	2018/12	Article	Foreign popular media: Boon or bane for peaceful educational outcomes in Japanese university EFL learning contexts? 7,pp.1-22 (Single)
20.	2018/12	Article	Go with the flow! Tracing language learning motivation research to Directed Motivational Currents 533,pp.91-110 (Single)
21.	2017/12	Article	Comparing native speakers' intelligibility and acceptability judgments of Japanese EFL learners Current Trends in Experimental Phonetics pp.282-285 (Single)
22.	2016/12	Article	Falling on deaf ears: Questioning why pronunciation is overlooked in second and foreign language instruction The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 3(2),pp.197-212 (Single)
23.	2016/01	Article	Classroom as society: Using peer review to teach an unfamiliar writing style in foreign language writing instruction Readings in Language Studies, Vol. 5: Language and society pp.3-22 (Single)
24.	2014/07	Article	Preparing to study or travel abroad: The Travel Abroad Motivation Equation (TAME) Journal of Business Cases and Applications 11,pp.1-16 (Collaboration)
25.	2013/01	Article	Perceptions of Japanese EFL learners' /r/ and /l/ pronunciation: Comparing native speakers' ratings of word-level utterances Proceedings from Asian Conference on Education 2012 pp.54-65 (Single)
26.	2012/10	Article	Language environment and identity: The effects of a short-term trip abroad on a Japanese adolescent double Readings in language studies volume 3: Language and identity pp.67-84 (Collaboration)
27.	2012/10	Article	Language learning motivation: Applying the L2 Motivational Self System International Journal of Language Studies 6(4),pp.71-96 (Collaboration)
28.	2012/09	Article	End-user databases: An effective digital data management tool for teachers and researchers 明治大学教養論集 (487),pp.123-144 (Single)
29.	2012/04	Article	Managing downloaded and created digital "home data": End-user databases for teachers and researchers Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 pp.2490-2499 (Single)
30.	2011/07	Article	Seeing what was said: Using audio recording and visualiztion software in language teaching Proceedings from the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education pp.3899-3911 (Single)
31.	2011/07	Article	Yes we scan! Using consumer scanners for teaching and research Proceedings from the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education pp.3920-3939 (Single)
32.	2010/12	Article	Do pronunciation preferences have the power to motivate? Examining non-English major Japanese university students' perceptions of English accents Readings in language studies, volume 2: Language and power 2,pp.405-423 (Single)
33.	2010/12	Article	English loanwords in Japanese television programming: Assessing high-frequency baseword vocabulary usage The Asian Conference on Education 2010 Conference Proceedings pp.851-859 (Collaboration)
34.	2009/11	Article	Assessing native pronunciation raters from different English variety backgrounds The Asian Conference on Education 2009 Conference Proceedings pp.662-668 (Single)
35.	2009/10	Article	Part-of-speech shift in English loanword adoption Proceedings of the Annual JALT International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning (Tokyo, Japan, November 2008) pp.377-385 (Collaboration)
36.	2008/12	Article	A scanner brighter: Scans, the literature review, and note taking The Language Teacher 32(12),pp.22-23 (Single)
37.	2008/10	Article	A cause for pause: A personal reflection on the use of punctuation in Japanese university EFL writers' compositions Proceedings of the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii pp.642-658 (Single)
38.	2008/10	Article	English loanword use on Japanese television JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.307-316 (Collaboration)
39.	2008/10	Article	Promoting autonomy by promoting groupwork in Japanese university EFL classes Proceedings of the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii pp.666-691 (Single)
40.	2008/10	Article	Reintroducing kumi-type structures at university JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.562-573 (Single)
41.	2008/10	Article	Shifting goals, instructor roles, and Japanese university students' English study methods Readings in Language Studies Vol. 1 1 (Single)
42.	2008/10	Article	Teachers' beliefs about language learning strategies: An exploratory study Readings in Language Studies Vol. 1 1 (Single)
43.	2008/08	Article	Relating gender with culture and society: The silence of Japanese female learners of English in Japan Soonchunhyang Journal of Humanities 22 (Single)
44.	2007	Article	Expanding the Gardnerian model of motivation JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.1-6 (Single)
45.	2007	Article	Teaching /l/ and /r/ to Japanese EFL learners: Support for segmental-level pronunciation instruction Asian EFL Journal 19 (Single)
46.	2007	Article	Using listening for writing? Playing podcasts in composition courses The Language Teacher 31(10),pp.22-23 (Single)
47.	2006	Article	A scanner brightly: Tips for information organization and retrieval The Language Teacher 30(10),pp.28-30 (Single)
48.	2006	Article	Japanese university students' English study methods: Learning to learn more than course content Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii pp.1367-1405 (Single)
49.	2006	Article	Reasons and methods for learning students' names The Language Teacher 30(4),pp.17-22 (Single)
50.	2006	Article	Research by means of the Multiple Interview Method JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.141-149 (Single)
51.	2006	Article	When being bilingual is not enough: Investigating the "other duties" of judicial interpreters in Japan Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii pp.1406-1429 (Collaboration)
52.	2005	Article	From high school to university: Preliminary case study findings of Japanese students' changing English study methods Proceedings of the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii pp.1842-1872 (Single)
53.	2005	Article	Japanese high school students, motivation, and future goals behind English learning JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.164-173 (Single)
54.	2005	Article	Knowing before learning: Ten concepts students should understand prior to enrolling in a university translation or interpretation class Translation Journal 9(2) (Single)
55.	2005	Article	Questioning the extent to which adult female learners of Japanese as a second language should adhere to Japanese "female language" conventions JALT International Conference Proceedings pp.219-226 (Collaboration)
56.	2004	Article	Are Japanese high school graduates really equipped for university language study? A call for research into the study habits of Japanese students studying English after matriculation to university NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 6(1),pp.101-112 (Single)
57.	2004	Article	Case studies of language learners as a tool for helping teachers understand the experience of language learners Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics 9(1),pp.1-14 (Collaboration)
58.	2004	Article	Examining gender and the Japanese female EFL learner: Connections of culture, silence, and power NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 6(2),pp.13-23 (Single)
59.	2004	Article	Perceived obligation and language learning motivation: A preliminary inquiry into the individual versus group obligation orientations of Japanese EFL high school students and their motivation to learn English UMI
60.	2003	Article	"Yakudoku" and EFL instruction in Japan Studies in English Language and Literature 11,pp.73-78 (Single)
61.	2003	Article	Japanese writing and the writing of English in Japan: A progression toward simplicity or increased complexity? Literacy Across Cultures 6,pp.11-24 (Single)
62.	2003	Article	Motivation and Japanese high school EFL students: The overlooked learners Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education 8(1),pp.53-69 (Single)
63.	2000	Article	The influence of television on language acquisition in the absence of human interaction: A study on a bilingual child (Single)
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■ Conference Presentations

1.	2024/11/15	Celling like hotcakes: The spreadsheet gradebook solution (JALT2024)
2.	2024/06/17	Proposing custom-made course administration spreadsheets as an electronic gradebook alternative (Education and New Developments (END) 2024 Conference)
3.	2024/05/17	Questioning Japan's English-only and other language teaching communicative directives (8th International Conference on Research in Education, Teaching and Learning)
4.	2024/04/28	Adapting to change: Navigating attendance challenges in the era of remote learning (International Conference on Future of Teaching and Education 2024)
5.	2023/06/16	For play or a study way? Investigating Japanese university students' perceptions and uses of the Golden Week holiday period (7th International Conference on Future of Teaching and Education)
6.	2023/01/07	Students’ perspectives of attendance taking and student-teacher communication via the ARS during the first year of emergency remote teaching (IICE 2023 (The IAFOR International Conference on Education Hawaii))
7.	2022/01/06	Examining the file renaming errors made by Japanese university EFL students during the first year of emergency remote teaching (IICE 2022 (The IAFOR International Conference on Education Hawaii))
8.	2021/11/08	Transforming teacher-student communication under COVID-19: Completing analyses of remote progress and information conveyance by students studying English as a foreign language at Japanese universities (ICERI 2021 (14th Annual International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation))
9.	2021/05/15	Taking attendance at university: Some thoughts brought on by COVID-19 (GIRES (Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship) Education, Technology & Culture in Crisis: Secondary & Higher Education in a Time of Virtual Instruction)
10.	2021/03/12	Staying connected: A digital approach to taking attendance at Japanese universities during COVID-19 (The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA))
11.	2020/12/15	Student views of attendance at Japanese universities in the era of COVID-19: A preliminary look (Osaka Conference on Education 2020)
12.	2020/09/06	Using ARS: Promoting teacher-student interaction at a distance (Teacher Journeys 2020: Experiences in Remote Teaching)
13.	2019/09/14	Marking twelve seasons of The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon Cooper, the DSM-5, and the lost Asperger's label (12th Autism-Europe International Congress 2019)
14.	2019/06/21	Language learning motivation: And you thought the focus had always been the learner (International Society for Language Studies 2019 Conference)
15.	2018/11/25	Diversity in Rater Dialects: Japanese EFL Learners Post-pronunciation Training (3rd Pronunciation Symposium)
16.	2018/06/21	Learning philosophy through English at a Japanese university (The Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Learning)
17.	2018/06/09	Vision and voices: Examining the ideal L2 self currents of a bilingual Japanese adolescent (The Third International Psychology of Language Learning conference)
18.	2017/06/17	Foreign popular media: Boon or bane for peaceful educational outcomes in Japanese university EFL learning contexts? (International Society for Language Studies 2017 Conference)
19.	2014/06/15	Classroom as society: Using peer review to teach an unfamiliar writing style in foreign language writing instruction (International Society for Language Studies 2014 Conference)
20.	2013/01/09	"Because it's a different me in each country": The influence of location on the language and identity of a Japanese double (11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education)
21.	2012/10/26	Perceptions of Japanese EFL learners' /r/ and /l/ pronunciation: Comparing native speakers' ratings of word-level utterances (Asian Conference on Education 2012)
22.	2011/10/18	Managing downloaded and created "home data": End-user databases for teachers and researchers (E-Learn 2011)
23.	2011/07/02	Identity and language learning motivation: Examining a bilingual double's short-term return to the U.S. (CUE 2011)
24.	2011/01/06	Seeing what was said: Using audio recording and visualization software in language teaching (9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education)
25.	2011/01/06	Yes we scan! Using consumer scanners for teaching and research (9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education)
26.	2010/12/05	English loanwords in Japanese television programming: Assessing high-frequency baseword vocabulary usage (Asian Conference on Education 2010)
27.	2009/10/24	Assessing native pronunciation raters from different English variety backgrounds (Asian Conference on Education 2009)
28.	2009/06/13	"Japanese females, silence, and English language learning" (2009 ISLS Conference)
29.	2009/06/11	Japanese university students' views of English varieties' pronunciation (2009 ISLS Conference)
30.	2008/11/03	"English loanword usage on Japanese television, continued" (JALT2008 International Conference)
31.	2008/06/02	Japanese university students' autonomy and groupwork (7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences)
32.	2008/05/31	Japanese university students' English writing (7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences)
33.	2007/11/23	English loanword usage on Japanese television (JALT2007 International Conference)
34.	2007/11/23	Group learning structures in English courses at Japanese universities (JALT2007 International Conference)
35.	2007/10/06	Kumi and han learning at university fostering culturally appropriate autonomous learning (Independent Learning Association)
36.	2007/09/15	Punctuation use by Japanese EFL learners (Symposium on Second Language Writing)
37.	2007/04/03	Instructor roles and Japanese university students' English study methods (2007 ISLS Conference)
38.	2007/04/03	Teacher beliefs regarding students' use of language learning strategies (2007 ISLS Conference)
39.	2006/11/03	Expanding the Gardnerian framework of language learning motivation (JALT2006 International Conference)
40.	2006/06/03	"Japanese university students' changing study methods, continued" (5th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences)
41.	2006/06/01	"Pilot study on the ""other duties"" of judicial interpreters in Japan" (5th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences)
42.	2005/10/10	Conducting interviews for qualitative research (JALT2005 International Conference)
43.	2005/06/11	Japanese university students' changing English study methods (4th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences)
44.	2004/11/23	Language learning motivation and the lifelong learning of Japanese high school students (JALT2004 International Conference)
45.	2001/11/03	Pilot study on the language learning motivation of Japanese English language learners (TexTESOL Conference)
46.	2000/10/27	Television and the bilingual child (TexTESOL Conference)
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■ Academic Qualifications

1.	2000/08～2004/03	〔Doctorial Course〕外国語教育学, Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language, The University of Texas at Austin, Completed, Doctor of Philosophy
2.	2000/08～2004/03	〔Doctorial Course〕, The University of Texas at Austin, Completed, 博士（応用言語学）
3.	1995/07～2000/05	〔Master Course〕, Georgetown University, Completed, Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T)
4.	1989/09～1993/08	Philosophy, Austin College, Graduated, Bachelor of Arts

■ Teaching Activities

● Efforts to Improve Educational Contents and Method (Including Teaching Evaluation)
1.	2023/04/01～	Teaching about the world through the Star Wars universe
2.	2009/04/01～	Advanced English
3.	2009/04/01～2023/03/31	English phonetics and phonology

■ Academic Associations Membership

1.	2023/04～	JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers)
2.	2007/04～2023/03	International Society for Language Studies
3.	2015/04～2016/03	∟ Book editor
4.	2004/09～	The Japan Association for Language Teaching

■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches

1.	2024/04～	Golden Week's effects on students' learning (Key Word : Golden Week)
2.	2024/04～	Japanese university students' level of understanding of instructions in English learning (Key Word : Japan, university, instructions, English learning)
3.	2023/09～	Students' views on a course of Star Wars and popular culture (Key Word : Star Wars, popular culture)
4.	2023/09～	The use of Japanese in the English classroom (Key Word : Japanese, English, pedagogy)
5.	2015～	English jokes and puns (Key Word : 英語のユーモア、冗談、だじゃれ)
6.	2015～	The language of Star Wars (Key Word : スター・ウォーズ、言語)
7.	2010/08～2012/03	Returnee identity (Key Word : )
8.	2008～	Pronunciation training for production and discrimination between English /l/ and /r/ by native Japanese (Key Word : 発音,)
9.	2002～	Foreign language learning motivation (Key Word : 外国語,勉強方法,)
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■ Committees and Associations

2023/09～

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Editorial Advisory Board member

■ Award History

2014/10

Academic and Business Research Institute Best Paper of Track Award

■ Current Specialized Field

English linguistics, Foreign language education