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Hello. I am Yu KANAZAWA (金澤 佑).

I am an associate professor (lecturer) at the Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka. I hold Ph.D. in Language, Communication and Culture [Language Education]. I have Advanced and First-Class Teacher's Licenses (English) for junior and senior high schools along with First-Class Teacher’s License (Civics) and has extensive experience of teaching EFL for both remedial and proficient students at secondary and tertiary education. Besides my scholarly study, I am eager in ICT application in education to foster students' engagement and developed a method named 'Three-E-Imaginizer' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Wts-v_fIk) (Kanazawa, 2016). My research interests include emotional philosophy, cognitive psychology, vocabulary, and ICT. I am the project leader of LET-FMT-SIG and the lead coordinator of ELINET Japan Branch. I received the LET New Researcher Award in 2017. The latest works in 2024-2025 are in epistemic emotions (See the link below for links to papers and videos: https://researchmap.jp/yu-kanazawa/epistemicity?lang=en

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Research Fields and Major Interests ("Inner Circle")

Applied Linguistics (AL), Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition (SLVA), Cognitive Psychology (esp. Lexical Processing, Mental Lexicon, Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Working Memory, and Levels of Processing), Philosophy (esp. of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Henri Bergson, and Alfred North Whitehead), Cognition and Emotion/Affect (esp. L. Ciompi’s Affect-Logic, and Vygotskian Emotional Theory), Emotion-Involved Processing[1], Language Pedagogy (esp. Humanistic Approaches to Learning such as Suggestopedia), Teaching English as a Foreign Language

[1] Emotion-Involved Processing is the concept the author (Y. Kanazawa) propose

Peripheral Fields and Interests (“Outer Circle” / “Expanded Circle”) - which are not directly related to my research but  essential sources

Developmental Psychology (esp. H. E. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory, Educational Psychology (esp. A. N. Whitehead’s Thoughts on Education, J. Dewey's Progressive Education), Neuropsychology, Ecological Psychology (esp. Gibsonian Theory of Affordance), Positive Psychology (esp. M. Csikszentmihalyi’s Theory of Flow, Mindfulness, and Creativity), Neuroscience (e.g. Mirror Neuron by G. Rizzolatti; esp. Theories on Cognition, Emotion and Body; e.g. A. Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis, J. LeDoux’s Emotional Brain, J. H. Schumann’s Sustained Deep Learning), Application of Emotional Science (e.g. D. Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence, and D. Norman’s Emotional Design), Multilingualism (esp. C. Kramsch’s Symbolic Competence in L2 Learning, A. Pavlenko’s Bilingual Mental Lexicon, and J. –M. Dewaele et al. ’s Emotions in Multilingualism), Multiculturalism (esp. R. D. Lewis’s Multiple Concepts of Time), Intercultural Communication, Anthropology (esp. Play Theory of J. Huizinga and R. Caillois), Semiotics (esp. of C. S. Peirce), Western Philosophies (esp. Stoic Ethics, Spinozistic Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Existentialism), Eastern Philosophies (esp. Confucianism, Taoism, Zen, Japanese Medieval Aesthetics/Ethics), Modern Philosophies (esp. Bergsonian Metaphysics, and A. N. Whitehead’s Process Philosophy)

【JASELE2014 Student Forum】On my way to interdisciplinarity: An example of a doctorial student from Yu Kanazawa