About me
About me
Hi! I am Yusuke Kuroki (黒木 祐輔) [jɯːsɯ̥ke̞ kɯɾo̞ki]. I am originally from Miyazaki, Japan. I'm a PhD student in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. My research interests include the cognitive processes underlying second language acquisition and the role of multimodal interaction in computer-assisted language learning.
Education
Fall 2024 - Present
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI, United States)
Kansai University (Osaka, Japan)
Miyazaki Municipal University (Miyazaki, Japan)
BA in Humanities
Exchange Student at Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo, BC, Canada)
Career College International House Vancouver (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
International Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ID TESOL)
Professional Teaching Experience
Tsuno Junior High School (Public), Miyazaki, Japan
Toumi Junior High School (Public), Miyazaki, Japan
Chikuzan Junior High School (Public), Fukuoka, Japan
Publication/Presentation
Godfroid, A., Gorshkova, E., Guan, X., Kim, N., Kuroki, Y., Nakanishi, Y., & Smith, S. (2025, June 16–18). Emotions and vocabulary learning: A partial replication and extension of Driver (2022), with eye tracking [Paper presentation]. Vocab@Maryland, College Park, MD, United States. https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/vocabatmaryland/home?authuser=0
Kuroki, Y. (2024). The effects of typing on the acquisition of declarative and non-declarative vocabulary knowledge [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Kansai University.
Kuroki, Y. (2024, March 23). "Is it really easy to use?" An introduction to the online experiment tool Gorilla Experiment Builder [Workshop]. The Society of Kansai University Foreign Language Education and Research 18th Research Conference, Suita, Osaka, Japan. http://kufler-s.jp/index.php?key=joo3zu2gf-118#_118
(The workshop was held in Japanese.)
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