Kunihiro KUSANAGI, Ph.D

　I'm associate professor at the Faculty of Regional Development and the Graduate School of Comprehensive Scientific Research, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan. My research covers a wide range of topics related to mathematical methods and its applications to linguistics, education, and psychology, putting great emphasis on interdisciplinarity and social implementation.

　I was once engaged in lab-based research focusing on language teaching in Japan. Recently, however, a lot of my academic effort is rather dedicated to working on Evidence-Based English Education (EBEE) in Japan, open science for educational research, teacher development, and promoting mathematical methods such as Bayesian modeling.

Personal Information

Name: Kunihiro KUSANAGI
Gender: Male
Nationality: Japan
Born: July 27th, 1986
Work Address: Faculty of Regional Development, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Ujina-Higashi 1-71, Minami ward, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Email: kusanagi [at] pu-hiroshima.ac.jp & kusanagi.kuni [at] gmail.com
Current Positions

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Regional Development and the Graduate School of Comprehensive Scientific Research, Prefectural University of Hiroshima
Part-time lecturer at Fukuyama City University, Hiroshima Jogakuin University, and Tokyo Metropolitan University
Visiting associate proffessor at Hiroshima University

Past Positions

2014-2016 Research Fellow at the Japan Society of Promotion of Science
2016-2020 Specially-appointed lecturer at the institute for Foreign Language Education and Research, Hiroshima University

Degrees

BA in School Education, Akita University, Japan (2010)
MA in Arts, Nagoya University, Japan (2012)
Ph.D in Arts, Nagoya University, Japan (2018)

Selected Papers in English

Please see also my comprehensive works here.

Kusanagi, K., & Yamashita, J. (2013). Influences of linguistic factors on the acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge: Focusing on agreement type and morphosyntactic regularity in English plural morpheme. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 24, 205-220.
Kusanagi, K. (2014). Speeded effect on accuracy, sensitivity, response bias and reaction time of L2 learners' grammaticality judgments: Using signal detection theory. JABAET Journal, 18, 37-54.
Kusanagi, K., Fukuta, J., Kawaguchi, Y., Tamura, Y., Goto, A., Kurita, A., & Murota, D. (2015). Foreign language grammatical carefulness scale: Scale development and its initial validation. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 26, 77-92.
Kusanagi, K., Tamura, Y., & Fukuta, J. (2015). The notional number attraction in English as a foreign language: A self-paced reading study. Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences, 16, 77-96.
Kusanagi, K., & Fukuta, J. (2015). Japanese EFL learners' implicit knowledge of prenominal adjective orders: A priming study. International Journal of Curriculum Development and Practice, 17, 1-13.
Tamura, Y., & Harada, Y., Kato, D., Hara, K., & Kusanagi, K. (2016). Unconscious but slowly activated grammatical knowledge of Japanese EFL learners: A case of tough movement. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 27, 169-184.
Kusanagi, K., Enokida, K., Kida, S., Sakaue, T., Takita, F., Tatsukawa, K., Uenishi, K., Yamamoto, G., & Yoshikawa, L. (2017). Foreign language learning mode preferences of Japanese university students. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 28, 193-208.
Enokida, K., Kusanagi, K., Kida, S., Morita, M., & Sakaue, T. (2018). Tracking online learning behaviour in a cross-platform web application for vocabulary learning courses. Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters–short papers from EUROCALL 2018, 47-53.
Kusanagi, K., & Kida, S. (2019). Individual differences in rule-based grammaticality judgment behavior: A Bayesian modeling approach. Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 30, 177-192.
Ikarashi, K., Mahar, P., & Kusanagi, K. (2022) Subjective perceptual nuance in the usage of up against. Journal of English Grammar and Usage, 29, 149-155.
Yamashita, J., Shiotsu, T., & Kusanagi, K. (2023). Predictors of second language reading comprehension ability: A longitudinal study with learners from grade 9 to 11 in an English as a foreign language context. Reading and Writing. Online First Publication.
Yamashita, J., Kusanagi, K., & Shiotsu, T. (2024). Development of EFL reading rate in adolescents in Japan: A longitudinal study. Journal of Second Language Studies, 6(2), 238-265.
Yamashita, J., & Kusanagi, K. (2024). Direct and indirect contributions of three aspects of morphological knowledge to second language reading comprehension. Education Sciences, 14(3), 270.

Kunihiro KUSANAGI, Ph.D