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RESEARCH

Teaching and Learning

​Research at the LERC is conducted for the specific purpose of improving the quality of education at the center. Unlike many other university research environments in Japan, the LERC actively encourages both full-time and adjunct faculty to conduct research. Collaboration amongst faculty is common, and individualized support is provided to less experienced researchers.

The LERC provides a publishing forum in the form of a center bulletin called the LERC Journal. Proposals and submissions to this annual publication undergo a rigorous vetting and revision cycle. A number of research initiatives that started as smaller-scale projects featured in the LERC Journal have been subsequently expanded and reanalyized. Some of these have found their way into international publications that boast a wide readership base.

In addition, faculty are encouraged to publish in Vocabulary Learning and Instruction. This academic journal, published by the JALT Vocabulary SIG, was established in 2012 with significant contributions from LERC faculty.

The driving engine behind a number of these projects has been grant funding, provided intra-institutionally as well as externally from the Ministry of Education. Faculty continually strive to secure grant funding that allows exciting new research ideas to be brought to life.
​International journals in which our faculty have published​
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  • British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Computers & Education
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
  • The Internet and Higher Education
  • Language Assessment Quarterly
  • Language Testing
  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • ​System
  • TESOL Quarterly​

​Associations which have organized conferences in collaboration with the LERC​
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  • Fukuoka JALT
  • JACET Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter
  • JALT CALL Special Interest Group
  • JALT Vocabulary Special Interest Group
  • Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society

International conferences at which our faculty have presented
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  • The Biennial EARLI Conference
  • The EARLI International Conference on Motivation
  • EuroCALL conference
  • International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (FLTAL)
  • JACET International Convention
  • JALT International Conference​
  • Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)
  • Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
  • TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo​

​List of Subscribed Journals 
(on-campus access only)
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  1. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  2. Applied Linguistics
  3. The Canadian Modern Language Review
  4. ELT Journal
  5. International Journal of Applied Linguistics
  6. Language Assessment Quarterly
  7. Language Learning
  8. Language Teaching
  9. The Modern Language Journal
  10. Reading Research Quarterly
  11. RELC Journal
  12. Studies in Second Language Education
  13. TESOL Journal
  14. TESOL Quarterly

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