Nakamura, S., & Spring, R. (2025). Learning and practicing idiomatic expressions using multimodal video materials. In B. Lacy, M. Swanson, & P. Lege (Eds.), Moving JALT Into the Future: Opportunity, Diversity, and Excellence (pp. 268–274). JALT. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTPCP2024-32
MacFarlane, E., Takeda, J., & Spring, R. (2025). Initial Findings from an Online Fluency Tool for 1st-year University Students Center for Culture and Language Education, Tohoku University 2023 Nenpo, 10, 87–94. <link>
スプリング・ライアン（2024）「英語教育のためのマネーボール」東北大学出版会会報（宙）第37号, 3–5. <link>
Spring, R. (2024). Rage Against the Machine: An Argument for Caution When Using ChatGPT in EFL and for Increased Human-AI Integration. In Proceedings of the 2024 STEM International Conference. (pp. 37–40). Seoul, Korea. <link>
Spring, R. (2024). A Free Human-AI Integrated Text-readability Tool: Making the Best of Teacher Intuition and Corpus Research. LET関東支部第150回（2024年春季）研究大会 <link>
Takeda, J., & Spring, R. (2024). The creation and impact of multimodal online tools for English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) at Tohoku University. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 10, 125–129. <link>
Spring, R. (2023). A human-AI integrated rating scheme for improving second language writing: The case of Japanese learners of English for general academic purposes. Reports Vol. 15 of Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET), Kansai Chapter, Methodology Special Interest Group (SIG) (pp. 22–43). https://mizumot.com/method/15-03_Spring.pdf or https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3350837/v2
Spring, R. (2023). The Possibility of Using Satellite-framed Expressions as Measure of Phrasal Complexity in EFL Writing: Preliminary Findings and Considerations. In Proceedings of the 49th Conference of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) (pp. 7-12). https://jaecs.com/conf/proceedings49_2023.pdf
Spring, R. (2023). A big-data investigation of Satellite-framing over time: Is English writing becoming more satellite-framed? The 24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) Handbook (pp. 125-128). <available upon request>
Spring, R., Sakurai, S., Okada, T. (2023). Improvements and Continual Development to the EGAP-based English Curriculum at Tohoku University. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 9, 125–129. <link>
Spring, R. (2022). Free, Online Multilingual Statistics for Linguistics and Language Education Researchers. Center for Culture and Language Education, Tohoku University 2021 Nenpo, 8, 32–38. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12037.63202
Sakurai, S., & Spring, R. (2022). Analysis of difficulty in listening to lectures: What makes lectures more or less difficult for Japanese EFL students? Center for Culture and Language Education, Tohoku University 2021 Nenpo, 8, 26–30. <link>
Spring, R. (2022). Common pronunciation mistakes that affect intelligibility: A preliminary error analysis of Tohoku University EFL students. 2020年言語・文化教育センター年報第 7号, 37–44. <link>
Spring, R. & Johnson, M.W. (2022). Improvements in automatically calculating vocabulary use in EFL writing. OASIS Summary of Spring, R. & Johnson, M.W. (2022) in System. https://oasis-database.org/concern/summaries/v692t668h?locale=en
Spring, R., & Johnson, M.W. (2022). Comparing syntactic complexity measures counted by Tregrex-based tagging and UD-based tagging for evaluating L1 Japanese EFL paragraph writing. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (pp.319-323). <link>
Scura, V., Meres, R., Kavanagh, B., & Spring, R. (2022). The new normal: How the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of a new English curriculum. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 8, 61–68. <link>
Spring, R. (2022). A pilot study of an integrated AI-human writing-rater system: How I learned to stop worrying and love the machine. The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) Handbook (pp. 130–134). <available upon request>
スプリング・ライアン、田淵龍二（2021）「he/sheエラーと母語干渉と地域性の訛り」The JACET 60th Commemorative International Convention Proceedings (p.210–211). <link>
Sakurai, S., Spring, R., & Takebayashi, S. (2021). The Tohoku method: A new academic English curriculum at Tohoku University and its preliminary evaluation. The JACET 60th Commemorative International Convention Proceedings (pp. 53–54). <link>
田淵龍二、スプリング・ライアン（2021）「スピーキング 3 秒採点と赤ペン添削システム開発とオンライン授業 人手による主観評価から機械(AI)による客観評価へ」『言語処理学会第27回年次大会予稿集』(pp. 298–303) <link>
Spring, R., & Okada, T. (2021). Report on teaching English A1 and B1 core skills in 2020: Implications from student survey, core skills tests, and TOEFL data. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 7, 315–324. <link>
Spring, R. (2021). Creating formative assessments for English A1 and B1 classes. 2019年言語・文化教育センター年報第 6号, 25-28. <link>
Spring, R. & Hien, A. (2020). Can Studying an L3 Make Meaningful Impact on the Acquisition of an L2? A primary analysis of students studying third languages at Tohoku University. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 6, 79–88. <link>
Spring, R. (2019). Proposal of a hierarchy for manner salience affecting motion-framing choices in English: At what point did I make this weird? Proceedings of the 35th annual conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (pp. 175–181). Kaitakusha: Tokyo. <link>
Spring, R. (2019). Student perspectives of learning phrasal verbs with animations. Proceedings of the 2019 ET2 Educational Transmedia Teaching ETAK-STEM Joint International Conference (p.41–46). Kongju, Korea: Kongju National University. <link>
スプリング・ライアン、加藤冨美江、森千加香（2019）「スカイプ・パートナーとのプロジェクト型外国語学習：初挑戦における有効性と問題点」東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要 5, 287–296. <link>
Spring, R. (2019). A survey of tools to objectively evaluate L2 speech. 2017年言語・文化教育センター年報第 4号, 35–39. <link>
Spring, R., & Shewack, E. (2018). The importance of L1 awareness in teaching English as a foreign language: Examples from Korean and Japanese EFL learners. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要, 4, 269–276. <link>
Spring, R. (2017). Applying Advances in Cognitive Linguistic Typology to Phrasal Verb Instruction. Conference handbook of the 35th annual conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 145–148. <link>
Spring, R., Kato, F. & Mori, C. (2017). The possibilities and challenges of incorporating project based language learning into E-learning to improve Japanese language learning. Proceedings of CASTEL / J 2017 in Waseda, 218–223. <link>
スプリング・ライアン、加藤冨美江、森千加香（2016）「東北大学・ノースカロライナ大学間のスカイプ・パートナー・プログラム：英語コミュニケーション能力向上ツールとしての効果に関する調査」東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要 2, 263–269. <link>
Kato, F., Mori, C. & Spring, R. (2015). Pilot Study: Investigation of the Effectiveness of Skype for Enhancing the Oral Abilities of Japanese and English Learners. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ), 87–100. <link>
Spring, R. (2015). Getting in the right frame of mind to learn English as a second language. 東北大学高度教養教育・学生支援機構紀要 1, 115–124. <link>
Spring, R. & Ono, N. (2013). Cognitive Typology and Second Language Acquisition Beyond Motion: The Effects of Change-of-State Framing. 日本言語学会第１４７回大会予稿集, 100–105. <link>
Spring, R. (2010). A look into the acquisition of English motion event conflation by native speakers of Chinese and Japanese. Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pp. 563–572 <link>