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Hi, I'm Chie (pronounced CHEE-eh, two syllables, with each vowel clearly articulated. Like “cheese” without the z, followed by “eh”!)
I am an associate professor at Waseda University in the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS) and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (GSICCS).
My research investigates how language is represented and used in the mind. I am interested in questions such as how language users cope with indeterminacies in language and efficiently generate rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension, and how language is processed differently between native speakers and second language learners beyond the differences in the level of general language proficiency. In my research, I use a variety of eye-tracking experimental methods such as eye-tracking in text reading, eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm, pupillary dilations (pupillometry), as well as neuropsychological techniques. For ongoing research projects, please see here.
Most recent publications
Most recent publications
Nakamura, C., & Flynn, S. (To appear). Prosody and L2 listening. In M. Reed & J. Levis (Eds.), Handbook of Second Language Listening. Wiley-Blackwell.
Nakamura, C. (2025). How do we understand a second language?: Examining sentence processing through prosody. IEICE ESS Fundamentals Review 18 (Text in Japanese)
Nakamura, C., & Flynn, S. (2024). Eye-tracking and self-paced reading: Evaluation of experimental technologies in investigating the processing of relative clause sentence structures by Japanese L2 learners of English. In Handbook of technological advances researching language learning. Ed. Karim Sadeghi. Routledge.
Miyamoto, Y., Otaki, K., Nakamura, C., & Yusa, N. (2024). On the nature of operators in the grammar of L1 Chinese learners of L2 Japanese. In E. Babatsouli (Ed.), Multilingual acquisition and learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Education
Education
Ph.D. (2013) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan
Dissertation title: Online Structural Analysis in the Processing of L1 Japanese and L2 English Access here
M.A. (2010) Keio University, Japan
B.A. (2008) Keio University, Japan
Research Experience and fellowships
Research Experience and fellowships
2017-2019 Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
2016-2019 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Department of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2014-2016 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics, MIT
2013-2016 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Department of Language and Information Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2010-2013 JSPS Research Fellowship for Doctoral Students, Graduate school of Science and Technology, Keio University
2010-2013 Student Trainee, Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2007-2009 Research Assistant, Keio Research Center for Foreign Language Education
Research Grants
Research Grants
April 2025 – March 2029
Waseda Research Acceleration Program for Early-Stage Principal Investigators: JPY 12,000,000
December 2021 – March 2026
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) (PI): 21KK0006, JPY 14,300,000
April 2019 – March 2023
Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI): 19H01279, JPY17,160,000
April 2015 – March 2019
Grand-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (PI): 15H05381, JPY20,020,000
April 2015 – March 2019
Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Co-PI), JPY20,020,000
April 2014 – March 2016
Grand-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (PI): 26580106, JPY3,380,000
April 2013 – March 2016
Grand-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (PI): 13J02332, JPY4,320,000
April 2012 – March 2015
Grand-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (Co-PI), JPY 3,510,000
April 2010 – March 2012
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (PI): 10J03901, JPY 2,100,000
Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
2024 Spring , Waseda University (SILS and GSICCS)
Statistics for Psycholinguistic Research
Introduction to Psycholinguistics
First Year Seminar B
Intermediate Seminar
2023 Fall , Waseda University (SILS and GSICCS)
Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Language and Mind
Research Design
First Year Seminar B
2020 Spring , Waseda University
Laboratory English A & B
Concept Building and Discussion 1
2019 Fall, Waseda University
Academic Study Skills A & B
Concept Building and Discussion 2
2019 Spring, Waseda University
Laboratory English A & B
Academic English A&B
Concept Building and Discussion 1
2017-2018, UCLA
Reading Group Leader: Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics
2016 Summer, MIT
Principle Investigator: Summer 2016 Using Eye-tracking in L2 Research
2016 Spring, MIT
Co-Lecturer: Adult Second Language Acquisition
Guest Lecturer: Using eye-tracking data in L2 sentence processing research", Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition
2013-2014, Tokai University
Part-time lecturer: Academic Reading and Writing (Advanced & Intermediate), Tokai University
2012-2014, Showa medical school of nursing
Part-time lecturer: Medical English I & II
Awards
Awards
2020 The 9th WASEDA e-Teaching Award Good Practice Award
2014 The 14th Annual conference of the Japan Second Language Association Presenter Award
2012 CUNY Conference Student Presenter Award
2008 Keio University SFC Student Award
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