Naoko Taguchi

Naoko Taguchi is a Professor in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University with over 100 scholarly publications spanning two decades. Her academic profile demonstrates sustained research productivity, including 102 documented works with significant citation impact (h-index 35, 3617 citations). She maintains active research leadership through editorial roles and contributions to major reference works in applied linguistics.

Her research program centers on pragmatic competence development in second language acquisition, specializing in speech acts (particularly request-making), appropriateness judgments, and proficiency impacts. Key investigation areas include how learners acquire culturally appropriate language use across contexts, with growing emphasis on technological applications. Her fingerprint analysis reveals dominant expertise in Speech Acts (100%), Pragmatic Competence (61%), Proficiency (61%), and Request strategies (40%), indicating consistent theoretical focus over time.

Recent publications (2024-2025) show strategic expansion into technology-mediated pragmatics, examining digital games for request-learning feedback systems and social VR environments for Spanish conversation management. This technological pivot complements ongoing work on prosody in Chinese pragmatics, demonstrating methodology evolution while maintaining core theoretical commitments across multiple target languages.

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