OGAWA Mutsumi

General EducationAssociate Professor

Degree

  • Bachelor of Arts, Kwansei Gakuin University
  • Master of Language and Culture, Osaka Prefecture University
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Essex

Research Keyword

  • Second Language Acquisition

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Foreign language education, Foreign language education
  • Humanities & social sciences, English linguistics, English linguistics
  • Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Linguistics

Career

  • 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

Educational Background

  • 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

Paper

  • Accounting for the Variability of L2 Article Choices
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    総合文化研究, 2020, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • The Count-Mass Distinction and English Articles
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    Second Language, 2019, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • The Effect of Animacy on L2 Choice of Referential Expressions: An Analysis of Written English Narratives
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    中部地区英語教育学会紀要, 2017, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Pronoun or Noun: Animacy over Processing
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    Conference Proceedings of PacSLRF2016, 2017, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • 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
    Lead
  • 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
    Lead
  • The Dissociation of Individuation and Plural Markers in L2 Quantity Judgment
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • The Acquisition of the Mass-Count Distinction in English by Japanese Native Speakers
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    2009, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • 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

Books and other publications

  • 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

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Input frequency account for L2 learners' underuse of third-person plural pronouns in reference maintenance contexts
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    第48 回全国英語教育学会香川研究大会, Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
    第45回全国英語教育学会弘前研究大会, Aug. 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
    Tomohiko Shirahata; Koji Suda; Takako Kondo; Mutsumi Ogawa; 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
  • Boundedness based on lexical aspect and L2 countability judgment of English abstract nouns
    Mutsumi Ogawa
    The 23rd 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 22nd 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

Research Themes

  • 英語の可算・不可算の区別の習得における明示的指導の効果検証
    2022 - 2024
  • 第二言語習得研究成果を活用したより効果的な英語指導法の開発
    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
  • 抽象名詞の可算性とその習得の難しさ:日本人英語学習者への実証研究
    2015 - 2017