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Author:   Kyoko Masuda ,  Amy Snyder Ohta ,  Rie Tsujihara
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032628622

ISBN 10:   1032628626
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part I: Concept‑based language instruction: A radical blending of theory and practice 1. Concept-based language instruction: combining sociocultural theory and usage-based linguistics to transform language pedagogy 2. Promoting internalization in concept-based language instruction Part II: Using concept‑based language instruction to teach Japanese pragmatics 3. Teaching pragmatics with concept-based language instruction 4. Japanese style-shifting through concepts 5. Teaching subjective construal and interactional particles as invaluable linguistic resources in Japanese conversation 6. Teaching thanking in Japanese: a conceptual approach to speech acts Part III: Using concept‑based language instruction to teach Japanese grammar 7. Teaching motion verbs: perspective as foundational to Japanese grammar 8. Japanese benefactives and the speaker’s perspective 9. Teaching Japanese tense and aspect conceptually 10. Teaching the Japanese causative by incorporating insights from corpus studies 11. The passive and the speaker’s perspective in Japanese: focusing on “undergoing” 12. Moving forward with concept-based language instruction Index

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Kyoko Masuda is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research areas include Japanese discourse studies, applied cognitive linguistics, sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and role language/mimetic words used in Manga. Amy Snyder Ohta is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research uses sociocultural theory to consider the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, interlanguage pragmatics, classroom research, interview research, and autoethnography. Rie Tsujihara is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington, lecturer of Japanese at the University of Washington, and lecturer of Japanese at Cascadia College. Her research focuses on the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, both pragmatics and grammar, with a special interest in sociocultural theory.

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