Japan Study Abroad Project

What is the japan study abroad research project?

The Japan Study Abroad Project is the publicly-facing name we have given to our Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) funded kakenhi grant number 21H00554.

The Japan Study Abroad Project essentially aims to answer three primary questions about the effectiveness of study tours abroad on the development of intercultural competence among Japanese undergraduate students.

Do study tours abroad change increase students' intercultural development?
Are changes in students' intercultural development that happens on study abroad tours long-lasting?
What individual, programmatic, pedagogical, and destination differences influence students' intercultural development while on study tours abroad?

The research team

Aaron C. Sponseller

Principal Investigator (代表)

Aaron C. Sponseller is associate professor in the Department of English and International Studies at Osaka Jogakuin College. He holds an MA TESOL from San Francisco State University and a PhD in Education (Applied Linguistics) from Temple University. His research focuses on both study abroad and early childhood L2 literacy development through storybook reading.

Links: Academia, Research Map, LinkedIn

Russell S. Kabir

Co-Investigator (分担者)

Russell S. Kabir is an assistant professor in the School of Education and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Hiroshima University and has trained at ORISE in the United States and the OECD in France. Recently Level 1 certified in CQ through the Cultural Intelligence Center, Russell conducts research that connects variables in self-regulation and attention across the disciplines of cross-cultural, cognitive, and community psychology.

Links: Personal Website, Loop, Research Map, ResearchGate

Brandon L. Kramer

Co-Investigator (分担者)

Brandon Kramer is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Kwansei Gakuin University. He holds both an M.S. Ed. degree in TESOL and a Ph.D. in Education (Applied Linguistics) from Temple University. His research interests fall at the intersection of vocabulary acquisition, language testing, and corpus linguistics.

Links: Personal website, Research Map

Stuart McLean

Co-Investigator (分担者)

Stuart McLean is an associate professor at Momoyama Gakuin University. He holds an M.S. Ed. degree in TESOL from Temple University, and PhDs in Medicine and TESOL. He greatly enjoys post-graduate teaching and supervision. He has published in Studies in Second Language Accusation, Reading in a Foreign Language, Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, Language Teaching Research, TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Language Testing, System, and Language Assessment Quarterly.

Links: Academia, Research Map

We can be contacted at japansaproject@gmail.com.

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