Bachelor of Arts, Kwansei Gakuin University

Master of Language and Culture, Osaka Prefecture University

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Essex

Second Language Acquisition

Humanities & social sciences, Foreign language education, Foreign language education

Humanities & social sciences, English linguistics, English linguistics

Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Linguistics

Oct. 2020 - Present
Nihon University, College of Commerce, Associate Professor

Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2020
Nihon University, College of Commerce, Lecturer

Apr. 2016 - Sep. 2018
Nihon University, College of Commerce, Assistant Professor

Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016
University of Shizuoka, Language and Communication Research Center, Special Instructor

Oct. 2009 - Feb. 2014
University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics

01 Apr. 2007 - 31 Mar. 2009
Osaka Prefecture University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Language and Culture

Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2009
Osaka Prefecture University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Language and Culture

Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2006
Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Humanities, Department of English

Sep. 2004 - Apr. 2005
McGill University

A Systematic Review of Studies on the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to L2 Instruction: A Case of Japanese Learners of English
Mutsumi Ogawa
Journal of Humanities and Sciences, 2024, Refereed

Effects of Explicit Instruction on Intransitive and Transitive Verbs in Second Language English: with a Special Focus on Non-Instructed Verbs
KONDO Takako; SHIRAHATA Tomohiko; SUDA Koji; OGAWA Mutsumi; YOKOTA Hideki
ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 2020, Refereed

Accounting for the Variability of L2 Article Choices
Mutsumi Ogawa
Journal of Humanities and Sciences, 2020, Refereed, Not invited

The Count-Mass Distinction and English Articles
Mutsumi Ogawa
Second Language, 2019, Refereed, Invited

The Learning and Teaching of Inanimate Subjects: The Case of Japanese Learners of English
SHIRAHATA Tomohiko; KONDO Takako; SUDA Koji; OTAKI Ayano; OGAWA Mutsumi; YOKOTA Hideki
ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan, 2019, Refereed

The Effect of Animacy on L2 Choice of Referential Expressions: An Analysis of Written English Narratives
Mutsumi Ogawa
Journal of the Chubu English Language Education Society, 2017, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Pronoun or Noun: Animacy over Processing
Mutsumi Ogawa
Conference Proceedings of PacSLRF2016, 2017, Refereed, Not invited

Input Frequency of Article-Noun Combinations as Another Factor for L2 Article Use
Mutsumi Ogawa
Ars Linguistica: Linguistic Studies of Shizuoka, 2015, Refereed, Not invited

The Role of the Mass-Count Distinction in the Acquisition of English Articles by Speakers of an Article-Less First Language
Mutsumi Ogawa
2014, Refereed, Not invited

The Dissociation of Individuation and Plural Markers in L2 Quantity Judgment
Mutsumi Ogawa
Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011, Refereed, Not invited

The Acquisition of the Mass-Count Distinction in English by Japanese Native Speakers
Mutsumi Ogawa
2009, Refereed, Not invited

The Acquisition of English Articles by Advanced Japanese EFL Learners: Analysis Based on Noun Types
Mutsumi Ogawa
Journal of Language and Culture: Language and Information, 2008, Refereed, Not invited

第二言語習得研究の科学1 言語の習得
Joint work, 第３章 可算・不可算の区別の習得―個別化の観点から―
くろしお出版, Mar. 2023, Not refereed

The acquisition of Nouns and Phonemes
ニール・スネイプ; 小川睦美; 須田孝司; 鈴木孝明; 杉浦香織; 川﨑貴子; ジョン・マシューズ; 田中邦佳, Single work, 第２章 日本人英語学習者による指示表現と有生性の関連：代名詞と名詞句の選択, ニール・スネイプ,小川睦美,須田孝司,鈴木孝明,杉浦香織,川﨑貴子,ジョン・マシューズ,田中邦佳
くろしお出版, 2017, Not refereed

A Preliminary fMRI study on L1-Japanese L2-English Learners’ Judgements of English Articles
Chise Kasai; Mutsumi Ogawa; Neal Snape; Kanae Ogasawara; Eri Nakagawa; Norihiro Sadato; Takahiko Koike
The Japan Second Language Association The 25th International Conference, Jun. 2025, Not invited

指導法研究における効果測定方法に関する考察
小川睦美
第49回全国英語教育学会福岡研究大会, Aug. 2024, Not invited

認知言語学的知見に基づいた指導法の効果：日本人英語学習者を対象とした実証研究のメタ分析を通して
小川睦美
第53回中部地区英語教育学会富山大会, Jun. 2024, Not invited

Input frequency account for L2 learners' underuse of third-person plural pronouns in reference maintenance contexts
Mutsumi Ogawa
48th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2023), Aug. 2023

The influence of animacy of sentential subjects on overpassivization in L2 English
Kondo, T.; Shirahata; T. Suda, K.; Ogawa M.; Yokota, H.
20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2020), Not invited

The influence of animacy on the acquisition of subjects in English
Suda, K.; Shirahata, T.; Yokota, H.; Kondo, T.; Ogawa, M.
Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2020), Not invited

名詞の可算・不可算の習得
Mutsumi Ogawa
外国語教育メディア学会（LET）第94回中部支部研究大会 シンポジウム『第二言語習得データを用いた学習分析・学習者分析を英語教育に活かす』, Dec. 2019, Invited

The acquisition of subject wh-questions by Japanese learners of English
Shirahata, T.; Yokota, H.; Suda, K.; Kondo, T.; Ogawa, M.
14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 14), Not invited

Effects of explicit instruction on intransitive and transitive verbs in L2 English
Kondo, T.; Shirahata; T. Suda, K.; Ogawa M.; Yokota, H.
45th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2019), Not invited

Language proficiency and instructional effects: A cognitive linguistic approach to the count-mass distinction
Mutsumi Ogawa; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji; Suda; Takako Kondo; Hideki Yokota
The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Aug. 2019

Long-term effects of explicit instruction on the count-mass distinction in English: A cognitive linguistic approach
Mutsumi Ogawa; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Hideki Yokota
45th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE 2019), Aug. 2019, Not invited

Effects of animacy in second language acquisition
Otaki, A.; Shirahata, T.; Kondo, T.; Suda, K.; Ogawa, M.; Yokota, H.
19th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2019), Not invited

A comparison of two approaches to teaching ,count and mass nouns: A noun classification and a cognitive linguistic approach
Mutsumi Ogawa; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Hideki Yokota
第 49 回中部地区英語教育学会石川大会, Jun. 2019

The effect of instruction on recognition of noun countability: An application of a cognitive linguistic approach
Mutsumi Ogawa; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Hideki Yokota
3rd International Conference on Teaching Grammar (Congram19), Jan. 2019, Not invited

The acquisition of inanimate subjects by Japanese learners of English
Tomohiko Shirahata; Takako Kondo; Mutsumi Ogawa; Koji Suda; Hideki Yokota; Ayano Otaki
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) 2018, Nov. 2018, Not invited

Effect of Explicit Instruction on Unaccusative Verbs
Takako Kondo; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Mutsumi Ogawa; Hideki Yokota
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) 2018, Nov. 2018, Not invited

The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese learners of English: Focusing on subject wh-questions
Tomohiko Shirahata; Hideki Yokota; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Mutsumi Ogawa
2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, Oct. 2018, Not invited

Teaching boundedness and individuation as a distinction between count and mass nouns in English
Ogawa, M.; Shirahata, T.; Suda, K.; Kondo, T.; Yokota, H.
51st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL 2018), Not invited

Boundedness based on lexical aspect and L2 countability judgment of English abstract nouns
Mutsumi Ogawa
The 28th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association, Sep. 2018, Not invited

可算・不可算の区別に関する明示的文法指導：認知言語学的アプローチによる実践
Mutsumi Ogawa; Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Hideki Yokota
第44回全国英語教育学会京都研究大会, Aug. 2018, Not invited

Intuitive countability judgment and article choice: Do L2 learners rely on intuition to determine noun countability in context?
Mutsumi Ogawa
第48回中部地区英語教育学会静岡大会, Jun. 2018, Not invited

Evaluating effects of explicit grammar instruction: A case of L2 acquisition of the count-mass distinction in English
Mutsumi Ogawa
Departmental seminar for MA students, May 2018, Department of Education, University of York, Invited

Searching for a determining factor in L2 countability judgement on English abstract nouns
Mutsumi Ogawa
American Association for Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2018, Not invited

Animacy of subjects and influence on L2 acquisition: The case of Japanese learners of English
Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Ayano Otaki; Mutsumi Ogawa; Hideki Yokota; Chika Yoshida
The 27th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association, Sep. 2017, Not invited

The investigation of the feature inheritance hypothesis in second language acquisition
Koji Suda; Hideki Yokota; Takako Kondo; Mutsumi Ogawa Chika Yoshida; Tomohiko Shirahata
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 13, Sep. 2017, Not invited

Perceived countability of concrete and abstract nouns in L2 English
Mutsumi Ogawa
第43回全国英語教育学会島根研究大会, Aug. 2017, Not invited

Metalinguistic awareness of concrete and abstract nouns in L1 Japanese and L2 English
Mutsumi Ogawa
第47回中部地区英語教育学会長野大会, Jun. 2017, Not invited

Pronoun or Noun? Animacy over Processing
環太平洋第二言語研究フォーラム2016（PacSLRF2016）, Sep. 2016, Not invited

The Interaction of Animacy with the WhExtraction by Japanese Learners of English
環太平洋第二言語研究フォーラム2016（PacSLRF2016）, Sep. 2016, Not invited

A Countability Hierarchy Based on Boundedness:An Observation of Japanese Abstract Nouns and Count Classifiers ko and tu
The 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Jul. 2016, Not invited

The effect of animacy on L2 choice of referential expressions: A preliminary analysis of written English narratives
第46回中部地区英語教育学会三重大会, Jun. 2016, Not invited

日本語における抽象名詞の個別化と有界性の関係
中央大学人文科学研究所「言語の理解と産出」チーム 2016年度第2回公開研究会, May 2016, Invited

The Over-explicit Use of Nouns in L2 Writing
The 41st Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), 2015, Not invited

「個・つ」の容認度に見られる抽象名詞の個別化と有界性の関係
第61回日本中部言語学会定例研究会, 2015, Not invited

L2学習者の冠詞誤用の一要因 ーインプット頻度の考察ー
第60回日本中部言語学会定例研究会, 2014, Not invited

The L2 Mental Lexicon: Evidence for Reorganization of the Mass-Count Distinction in L2 English by Japanese Speakers
The 12th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA), 2012, Not invited

The Role of Noun Countability: Accounting for the Variability in L2 Article Choices
The 22nd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), 2012, Not invited

Mental Representation of Mass and Count Nouns in L2 English by Japanese Learners
Looking at Language Acquisition XII (LALA), 2012, Not invited

The Investigation into a Mass-Count Distinction in Japanese: Are Bare Nouns All the Same or Not?
The 13th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), 2011, Not invited

L2 Speaker Knowledge of Syntactic and Discourse Constraints on English Verb Phrase Ellipsis
The 21st Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), 2011, Not invited

The verification of the effects of explicit grammar instruction in L2 acquisition of the count-mass distinction in English
2022 - 2024

Development of efficient teaching method of English based on the results of SLA research
2017 - 2020

認知学的アプローチによる教授法の効果の検証
2018 - 2019

第二言語における名詞句習得の難しさの解明
2017 - 2018

第二言語英語学習者による指示表現の習得とAnimacy（有生性）の関連性
2016 - 2017

The countability of abstract nouns and its acquisition difficulties: Research with Japanese learners of English
2015 - 2017