Jun Yamashita
Biographic Data
| ID | 275000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jun Yamashita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jun |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamashita |
| SIGNATURE | YAMASHITA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0912-6350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Defining collocational congruency with expert judgment, corpus-derived frequency, and norming study data
Collocational congruency relates to the degree of form-meaning overlap between an L2 collocation and its L1 translation. Congruency effect research consistently shows that low-proficiency language learners respond more slowly and less accurately than their higher-proficiency counterparts to collocations that are incongruent between the L1 and L2, rendering congruency an important quality for applied psycholinguistic collocation research. However,…
More Than the Sum of Multiple Care
A growing population in economically developed societies are simultaneously providing childcare and older adult care, or sandwich care. The existing studies reveal that sandwich carers are more physically, mentally and financially challenged than those providing dyadic care. This article explores an understudied area of sandwich care and ambivalence. Ambivalence encompasses the difficulties, challenges, and range of feelings, including guilt, ang…
A Review of Meta-Analyses of Correlation Coefficients on L2 Reading Comprehension
Quantitative meta-analyses have gained popularity among L2 reading researchers in recent years. Meta-analyses, especially meta-analyses that investigate the relationships among variables (e.g., meta-analyses of correlation coefficients, meta-analytic structural equation modeling), are well-suited for L2 reading research due to their componential nature. The present study reviews 14 meta-analyses on L2 reading comprehension published between 2010 …
Pandemic reflections on the Care and Control exhibition
This article presents reflections on our pre-Covid-19 exhibition Care and Control, and our interdisciplinary collaboration between artist Alice Tatton Brown and social scientists Maud Perrier and Junko Yamashita. The reflections expand current feminist debates about self-care and collective care by centring the importance of public space, refusals and contracts. Care and Control was designed as both an exhibition and a meeting place, created thro…
Inequalities in Resources for Preschool-Age Children by Parental Education
This paper provides new evidence on inequalities in resources for children age 3–4 by parental education using harmonized data from six advanced industrialized countries—United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Japan—that represent different social welfare regime types. We analyze inequalities in two types of resources for young children—family income, and center-based child care—applying two alternative measures of parent…
Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies
Visual search studies have shown that East Asians rely more on information gathered through their extrafoveal (i.e., peripheral) vision than do Western Caucasians, who tend to rely more on information gathered using their foveal (i.e., central) vision. However, the reasons for this remain unclear. Cognitive linguists suggest that the difference is attributable linguistic variation, while cultural psychologists contend it is due to cultural factor…
Diversity and structure of soil fungal communities unveil the building history of a burial mound of ancient Japan (Tobiotsuka Kofun, Okayama Prefecture)
Effects of Learning Direction in Retrieval Practice on Efl Vocabulary Learning
In paired-associate learning, there are two learning directions: L2 to L1 (L2 words as stimuli and L1 words as responses) and L1 to L2 (L1 words as stimuli and L2 words as responses). Results of previous studies that compared the effects of the two learning directions are not consistent. We speculated that the cause of this inconsistency may be L2 proficiency, as the strengths of the lexical links between L2 and L1 are different depending on the …
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge
This study investigates how implicit and explicit learning and knowledge are associated, by focusing on the salience of target form–meaning connections. The participants were engaged in incidental learning of artificial determiner systems that included grammatical rules of [± plural] (a taught rule), [± actor] (a more salient hidden rule), and [± animate] (a less salient hidden rule). They completed immediate and delayed post-tests by means of a …
A comparative analysis of children’s time use and educational achievement
Various forms of empirical evidence suggest that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly related to educational outcomes and many countries attempt to close achievement gaps among children. Parenting practice is one important mechanism through which educational inequality emerges across families with different SES. In this paper, we show that the class gap in children’s time use and academic achievements reflects parenting styles and pare…
Word Frequency, Collocational Frequency, L1 Congruency, and Proficiency in L2 Collocational Processing
This study investigated the effects of word frequency, collocational frequency, L1 congruency, and L2 proficiency, on L2 collocational processing. Two groups of L1 Japanese speakers of English (intermediate and advanced) and one group of English native speakers (NSs) performed an online acceptability judgment task on four types of adjective-noun constructions: (1) congruent collocations, (2) English-only collocations, (3) Japanese-only collocatio…
Comprehension and Knowledge Components That Predict L2 Reading
Among predictors of second language (L2) reading, both first language (L1) reading and L2 listening embody the complexities of comprehension ability in their construct. Their contributions to L2 reading have rarely been examined together, probably because of the different theoretical frameworks in which they are postulated. Therefore, the field lacks evidence regarding how these two predictors concurrently explain variance in L2 reading. Employin…
A Vision for Postmaternalism
Social policy development under neo-liberal logic glorifies paid work in the market over relationships involving care, nurture and dependency. Under neo-liberal conditions, the social policy framework in a large number of welfare states has moved towards the norm of the adult worker model. The prevalence of this model, which signalled a 'farewell to maternalism', has had the consequence that supporting mothers' care-giving roles are dismissed in …
Effects of cognitive demands on attention orientation in L2 oral production
L2 Reading Comprehension and Its Correlates
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2 decoding, L2 vocabulary knowledge, L2 grammar knowledge, first language [L1] reading comprehension), an…
Citizen Participation or Low-Cost Care Providers? Welfare Non-profit Organisations in Japan
This article examines the extent to which the increasing number of non-profit organisations (NPOs) can be considered a vehicle for promoting participatory democracy. Based on the analysis of data generated from my research, I argue that the rise of NPOs in Japan should not be uncritically considered the enhancement of participatory democracy. Based on the analysis of data generated from my research on NPOs that provide welfare services for older …
Resource-Free Parenting
This article examines recent Japanese and UK policy recommendations on parenting practices and highlights the absence of material resources in these discussions. Parenting has gained increased prominence in recent decades. In the realm of policy, there has been an expansive shift; from a narrowly focused concern with detecting neglect and abuse to the wider project of promoting ‘good’ parenting. Focusing on advice offered in relation to education…
Reliability of lexical richness measures based on word lists in short second language productions
A holistic theoretical framework for studying disaster mental health
Parental Attitudes Toward Public School Education in Tokyo
In recent years and with increasing frequency, Japan’s mass media has reported on the phenomenon of parents making ‘impossible’ demands of schools. Researchers have also recognized the importance of understanding parents’ expectations toward public school education. It is against this backdrop of heightened awareness that this paper sets out to uncover variations in parental attitudes by categorizing mothers into some groups and assessing how muc…
Care regimes and responses
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
Comparative framework for care regime analysis in East Asia
This special issue focuses on the changing care regimes for children and older people in the East Asian societies of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a result of dramatic changes in family structures and behaviours, each society has been struggling to reform its care regime. Each chapter addresses the impact of demographic trends on the care regimes, and the conclusion highlights the similarities and differences among these societies…
Child care and elder care regimes in Japan
Japan has one of the lowest fertility rates (1.37 in 2009) and one of the highest proportions of seniors (22.1% in 2009) in the world. Pronatalist policy reforms have been developed in recent years, which call into question long-standing assumptions about the provision of care by the state, the market, non-profit organisations and the family. This article examines how the balance of the four poles of the “care diamond” is changing in terms of fin…
Exploring the Impact of the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance Act on the Gendered Stratification of the Care Labour Market Through an Analysis of the Domiciliary Care Provided by Welfare Non-Profit Or…
Japan's implementation of the Long Term Care Insurance Act in 2000 provides a good example with which to examine the restructuring process of care services for older people, as these have come to be commodified by the welfare state. By focusing on Welfare Non-Profit Organisations provision, this article explores the significance of gender in the restructuring process. It reveals that care services are stratified with institutional care placed at …
L1 Influence on the Acquisition of L2 Collocations
This study investigated first language (L1) influence on the acquisition of second language (L2) collocations using a framework based on Kroll and Stewart (1994) and Jiang (2000), by comparing the performance on a phrase‐acceptability judgment task among native speakers of English, Japanese English as a second language (ESL) users, and Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The test materials included both congruent collocations, …
L2 Reading Comprehension and Its Correlates
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2 decoding, L2 vocabulary knowledge, L2 grammar knowledge, first language [L1] reading comprehension), an…
L1 Influence on the Acquisition of L2 Collocations
This study investigated first language (L1) influence on the acquisition of second language (L2) collocations using a framework based on Kroll and Stewart (1994) and Jiang (2000), by comparing the performance on a phrase‐acceptability judgment task among native speakers of English, Japanese English as a second language (ESL) users, and Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The test materials included both congruent collocations, …
Extensive reading and development of different aspects of L2 proficiency
Reliability of lexical richness measures based on word lists in short second language productions
Resource-Free Parenting
This article examines recent Japanese and UK policy recommendations on parenting practices and highlights the absence of material resources in these discussions. Parenting has gained increased prominence in recent decades. In the realm of policy, there has been an expansive shift; from a narrowly focused concern with detecting neglect and abuse to the wider project of promoting ‘good’ parenting. Focusing on advice offered in relation to education…
Child care and elder care regimes in Japan
Japan has one of the lowest fertility rates (1.37 in 2009) and one of the highest proportions of seniors (22.1% in 2009) in the world. Pronatalist policy reforms have been developed in recent years, which call into question long-standing assumptions about the provision of care by the state, the market, non-profit organisations and the family. This article examines how the balance of the four poles of the “care diamond” is changing in terms of fin…
Comparative framework for care regime analysis in East Asia
This special issue focuses on the changing care regimes for children and older people in the East Asian societies of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a result of dramatic changes in family structures and behaviours, each society has been struggling to reform its care regime. Each chapter addresses the impact of demographic trends on the care regimes, and the conclusion highlights the similarities and differences among these societies…
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge
This study investigates how implicit and explicit learning and knowledge are associated, by focusing on the salience of target form–meaning connections. The participants were engaged in incidental learning of artificial determiner systems that included grammatical rules of [± plural] (a taught rule), [± actor] (a more salient hidden rule), and [± animate] (a less salient hidden rule). They completed immediate and delayed post-tests by means of a …
Care regimes and responses
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
The Relationship of Reading Attitudes Between L1 And L2
This study investigated the transfer of reading attitudes from L1 to L2, drawing on the linguistic threshold hypothesis. Participants were Japanese university‐level EFL students. Their L1 and L2 reading attitudes were estimated using a Likert scale, and their L2 proficiency was measured using a test. The study found that the students' L1 and L2 reading attitudes were different. Multiple regression analyses identified significant contributions of …
A Vision for Postmaternalism
Social policy development under neo-liberal logic glorifies paid work in the market over relationships involving care, nurture and dependency. Under neo-liberal conditions, the social policy framework in a large number of welfare states has moved towards the norm of the adult worker model. The prevalence of this model, which signalled a 'farewell to maternalism', has had the consequence that supporting mothers' care-giving roles are dismissed in …
Inequalities in Resources for Preschool-Age Children by Parental Education
This paper provides new evidence on inequalities in resources for children age 3–4 by parental education using harmonized data from six advanced industrialized countries—United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Japan—that represent different social welfare regime types. We analyze inequalities in two types of resources for young children—family income, and center-based child care—applying two alternative measures of parent…
A comparative analysis of children’s time use and educational achievement
Various forms of empirical evidence suggest that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly related to educational outcomes and many countries attempt to close achievement gaps among children. Parenting practice is one important mechanism through which educational inequality emerges across families with different SES. In this paper, we show that the class gap in children’s time use and academic achievements reflects parenting styles and pare…
Effects of cognitive demands on attention orientation in L2 oral production
Exploring the Impact of the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance Act on the Gendered Stratification of the Care Labour Market Through an Analysis of the Domiciliary Care Provided by Welfare Non-Profit Or…
Japan's implementation of the Long Term Care Insurance Act in 2000 provides a good example with which to examine the restructuring process of care services for older people, as these have come to be commodified by the welfare state. By focusing on Welfare Non-Profit Organisations provision, this article explores the significance of gender in the restructuring process. It reveals that care services are stratified with institutional care placed at …
Spatial Interaction and Spatial Structure
Reading Strategies in L1 and L2
This study compared LI (Japanese) and L2 (English) reading strategies reported by four groups of readers with different reading ability backgrounds. Information on the strategies was extracted by a think aloud method. The following points emerged. (1) Generally speaking, readers tend to transfer their LI reading strategies to their L2 reading. (2) Language independent strategies are more likely to be transferred from LI to L2 than language depend…
An Analysis of Genitive Relative Clauses in a British Written English Corpus
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Processes of taking a gap-filling test
The present study investigates how skilled and less skilled readers answered a gap-filling (or rational deletion cloze) test in order to examine whether such tests can measure text-level processing ability. Twelve Japanese EFL students (six skilled and six less skilled readers) completed a gap-filling test while thinking aloud about their test-taking processes. Their verbal protocols were categorized according to the classification of cloze item …
A corpus-based validation study of the universal processing hypothesis in English relative clause formation
The present study focuses on spoken and written data in the British National Corpus (BNC). Based on a review of recent studies on English relative clauses, we formulated a Universal Processing Hypothesis (OS >OO>SS> SO) as target hypothesis to be validated using a corpus data approach. A computer program was designed to calculate the frequency of appearance of the four types of relative clauses (OS, OO, SS, and SO). The results indicated this hyp…
The Relationship of Reading Attitudes Between L1 And L2
This study investigated the transfer of reading attitudes from L1 to L2, drawing on the linguistic threshold hypothesis. Participants were Japanese university‐level EFL students. Their L1 and L2 reading attitudes were estimated using a Likert scale, and their L2 proficiency was measured using a test. The study found that the students' L1 and L2 reading attitudes were different. Multiple regression analyses identified significant contributions of …
Extensive reading and development of different aspects of L2 proficiency
L1 Influence on the Acquisition of L2 Collocations
This study investigated first language (L1) influence on the acquisition of second language (L2) collocations using a framework based on Kroll and Stewart (1994) and Jiang (2000), by comparing the performance on a phrase‐acceptability judgment task among native speakers of English, Japanese English as a second language (ESL) users, and Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The test materials included both congruent collocations, …
A holistic theoretical framework for studying disaster mental health
Parental Attitudes Toward Public School Education in Tokyo
In recent years and with increasing frequency, Japan’s mass media has reported on the phenomenon of parents making ‘impossible’ demands of schools. Researchers have also recognized the importance of understanding parents’ expectations toward public school education. It is against this backdrop of heightened awareness that this paper sets out to uncover variations in parental attitudes by categorizing mothers into some groups and assessing how muc…
Care regimes and responses
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
Comparative framework for care regime analysis in East Asia
This special issue focuses on the changing care regimes for children and older people in the East Asian societies of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a result of dramatic changes in family structures and behaviours, each society has been struggling to reform its care regime. Each chapter addresses the impact of demographic trends on the care regimes, and the conclusion highlights the similarities and differences among these societies…
Child care and elder care regimes in Japan
Japan has one of the lowest fertility rates (1.37 in 2009) and one of the highest proportions of seniors (22.1% in 2009) in the world. Pronatalist policy reforms have been developed in recent years, which call into question long-standing assumptions about the provision of care by the state, the market, non-profit organisations and the family. This article examines how the balance of the four poles of the “care diamond” is changing in terms of fin…
Exploring the Impact of the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance Act on the Gendered Stratification of the Care Labour Market Through an Analysis of the Domiciliary Care Provided by Welfare Non-Profit Or…
Japan's implementation of the Long Term Care Insurance Act in 2000 provides a good example with which to examine the restructuring process of care services for older people, as these have come to be commodified by the welfare state. By focusing on Welfare Non-Profit Organisations provision, this article explores the significance of gender in the restructuring process. It reveals that care services are stratified with institutional care placed at …
Citizen Participation or Low-Cost Care Providers? Welfare Non-profit Organisations in Japan
This article examines the extent to which the increasing number of non-profit organisations (NPOs) can be considered a vehicle for promoting participatory democracy. Based on the analysis of data generated from my research, I argue that the rise of NPOs in Japan should not be uncritically considered the enhancement of participatory democracy. Based on the analysis of data generated from my research on NPOs that provide welfare services for older …
Resource-Free Parenting
This article examines recent Japanese and UK policy recommendations on parenting practices and highlights the absence of material resources in these discussions. Parenting has gained increased prominence in recent decades. In the realm of policy, there has been an expansive shift; from a narrowly focused concern with detecting neglect and abuse to the wider project of promoting ‘good’ parenting. Focusing on advice offered in relation to education…
Reliability of lexical richness measures based on word lists in short second language productions
L2 Reading Comprehension and Its Correlates
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2 decoding, L2 vocabulary knowledge, L2 grammar knowledge, first language [L1] reading comprehension), an…
Effects of cognitive demands on attention orientation in L2 oral production
A Vision for Postmaternalism
Social policy development under neo-liberal logic glorifies paid work in the market over relationships involving care, nurture and dependency. Under neo-liberal conditions, the social policy framework in a large number of welfare states has moved towards the norm of the adult worker model. The prevalence of this model, which signalled a 'farewell to maternalism', has had the consequence that supporting mothers' care-giving roles are dismissed in …
Comprehension and Knowledge Components That Predict L2 Reading
Among predictors of second language (L2) reading, both first language (L1) reading and L2 listening embody the complexities of comprehension ability in their construct. Their contributions to L2 reading have rarely been examined together, probably because of the different theoretical frameworks in which they are postulated. Therefore, the field lacks evidence regarding how these two predictors concurrently explain variance in L2 reading. Employin…
Word Frequency, Collocational Frequency, L1 Congruency, and Proficiency in L2 Collocational Processing
This study investigated the effects of word frequency, collocational frequency, L1 congruency, and L2 proficiency, on L2 collocational processing. Two groups of L1 Japanese speakers of English (intermediate and advanced) and one group of English native speakers (NSs) performed an online acceptability judgment task on four types of adjective-noun constructions: (1) congruent collocations, (2) English-only collocations, (3) Japanese-only collocatio…
A comparative analysis of children’s time use and educational achievement
Various forms of empirical evidence suggest that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly related to educational outcomes and many countries attempt to close achievement gaps among children. Parenting practice is one important mechanism through which educational inequality emerges across families with different SES. In this paper, we show that the class gap in children’s time use and academic achievements reflects parenting styles and pare…
Effects of Learning Direction in Retrieval Practice on Efl Vocabulary Learning
In paired-associate learning, there are two learning directions: L2 to L1 (L2 words as stimuli and L1 words as responses) and L1 to L2 (L1 words as stimuli and L2 words as responses). Results of previous studies that compared the effects of the two learning directions are not consistent. We speculated that the cause of this inconsistency may be L2 proficiency, as the strengths of the lexical links between L2 and L1 are different depending on the …
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge
This study investigates how implicit and explicit learning and knowledge are associated, by focusing on the salience of target form–meaning connections. The participants were engaged in incidental learning of artificial determiner systems that included grammatical rules of [± plural] (a taught rule), [± actor] (a more salient hidden rule), and [± animate] (a less salient hidden rule). They completed immediate and delayed post-tests by means of a …
Psychology (20 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works)