Tomoaki Morikawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4506582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomoaki Morikawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomoaki |
| FAMILY NAME | Morikawa |
| SIGNATURE | MORIKAWA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7319-9573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who sings at Upopoy
The resurgence of eibungaku in Japanese ELT
Recently, a number of eibungaku [English and American literature]-based eibumpō [English grammar] textbooks have been published in Japan. Historically, teaching English by using eibungaku materials at university level was mainstream or at least common in Japanese English language teaching (ELT) up to the 1990s. However, the government-led educational reforms over the past couple of decades shifted the focus from eibungaku to practical English. Ag…
EMI, EAP, and pedagogy
Kanazawa University, a national university in Japan, offers an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program to its first-year students as a required subject of general education. It is an English-medium instruction (EMI) program with an English-only policy. In this article, I utilize autoethnography as a method to examine this EMI EAP program based on my experiences as a teacher while contextualizing my personal accounts in the extant studies of E…
Diversification, desire, and hierarchization of unequal Englishes on online eikaiwa
Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper analyzed multimodal …
(Il)Legitimating Filipino Teachers' English on Webpages for Japanese Learners of English
Recent studies indicate that many foreign students now choose to go to the Philippines for university and language education. In this paper, we examine how Filipino Teachers' English (FTE) is represented on English language schools' webpages to market the Philippines as an alternative destination for acquiring “good” English among Japanese nationals. By examining a combination of online texts, photos, and videos through the lens of multimodal dis…
Heroes’ Missions
While being marginalised in mainstream American history, Japanese Americans have been aiming to elevate their status in the U.S. This is also the case in Hawaiʻi where Japanese Americans hold strong economic and political standings. Up until today, members of the Japanese community in Hawaiʻi have strived for power, and in the realm of culture, one of their attempts came into fruition as a comic book. Titled Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 10…
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty Tomoaki Morikawa (bio) Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, curated by Christine Yano and Jamie Rivadeneira, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 10 11, 2014, to 05 31, 2015. Hello Kitty, a memorable icon of kawaii(a Japanese word roughly translated as cute) culture born in Japan in 1974, is by no means confined by national boundaries. Hello Kitty prod…
Diversification, desire, and hierarchization of unequal Englishes on online eikaiwa
Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper analyzed multimodal …
(Il)Legitimating Filipino Teachers' English on Webpages for Japanese Learners of English
Recent studies indicate that many foreign students now choose to go to the Philippines for university and language education. In this paper, we examine how Filipino Teachers' English (FTE) is represented on English language schools' webpages to market the Philippines as an alternative destination for acquiring “good” English among Japanese nationals. By examining a combination of online texts, photos, and videos through the lens of multimodal dis…
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty Tomoaki Morikawa (bio) Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, curated by Christine Yano and Jamie Rivadeneira, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 10 11, 2014, to 05 31, 2015. Hello Kitty, a memorable icon of kawaii(a Japanese word roughly translated as cute) culture born in Japan in 1974, is by no means confined by national boundaries. Hello Kitty prod…
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty
Hello! Exploring the World of Japanese Americans through Hello Kitty Tomoaki Morikawa (bio) Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, curated by Christine Yano and Jamie Rivadeneira, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 10 11, 2014, to 05 31, 2015. Hello Kitty, a memorable icon of kawaii(a Japanese word roughly translated as cute) culture born in Japan in 1974, is by no means confined by national boundaries. Hello Kitty prod…
Heroes’ Missions
While being marginalised in mainstream American history, Japanese Americans have been aiming to elevate their status in the U.S. This is also the case in Hawaiʻi where Japanese Americans hold strong economic and political standings. Up until today, members of the Japanese community in Hawaiʻi have strived for power, and in the realm of culture, one of their attempts came into fruition as a comic book. Titled Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 10…
(Il)Legitimating Filipino Teachers' English on Webpages for Japanese Learners of English
Recent studies indicate that many foreign students now choose to go to the Philippines for university and language education. In this paper, we examine how Filipino Teachers' English (FTE) is represented on English language schools' webpages to market the Philippines as an alternative destination for acquiring “good” English among Japanese nationals. By examining a combination of online texts, photos, and videos through the lens of multimodal dis…
The resurgence of eibungaku in Japanese ELT
Recently, a number of eibungaku [English and American literature]-based eibumpō [English grammar] textbooks have been published in Japan. Historically, teaching English by using eibungaku materials at university level was mainstream or at least common in Japanese English language teaching (ELT) up to the 1990s. However, the government-led educational reforms over the past couple of decades shifted the focus from eibungaku to practical English. Ag…
EMI, EAP, and pedagogy
Kanazawa University, a national university in Japan, offers an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program to its first-year students as a required subject of general education. It is an English-medium instruction (EMI) program with an English-only policy. In this article, I utilize autoethnography as a method to examine this EMI EAP program based on my experiences as a teacher while contextualizing my personal accounts in the extant studies of E…
Diversification, desire, and hierarchization of unequal Englishes on online eikaiwa
Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper analyzed multimodal …
Who sings at Upopoy
Sociology (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Ideology (2 works)