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Kyoko Masuda is a Professor of Japanese and Linguistics and Director of the Japanese Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Modern Languages. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (2002) and has been at Georgia Tech since 2004, advancing to Associate Professor (2010) and Full Professor (2024). Her expertise spans Japanese Discourse, Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, and Sociocultural Theory. She specializes in integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory into language pedagogy, focusing on Japanese particles, interactional competence, and concept-based instruction.
Dr. Masuda has authored/co-authored influential books such as *Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese Pedagogy* (2018) and *Concept-based Language Instruction* (2025). Her research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical language teaching, emphasizing corpus analysis and learner-centered approaches. Her recent work explores interactional particles in academic contexts and style-shifting in student-professor conversations.
Her teaching portfolio includes courses like Discourse and Grammar, Applied Japanese Linguistics, and Critical Readings in Japanese Arts and Culture. She actively develops new curricula to enhance Japanese and linguistics education at Georgia Tech. Notable research trends include combining sociocultural theory with cognitive frameworks to address teaching challenges in Japanese as a foreign language.
Her contributions to language pedagogy have shaped methodologies for teaching polysemous particles and promoting interactional competence. She advises students in linguistics and Japanese studies, contributing to academic communities through editorial roles and conference presentations on pedagogy and Japanese language structure.
