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English ability and cognitive change seen in brain images

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370696
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionGifu University

Principal Investigator

KASAI Chise  岐阜大学, 地域科学部, 准教授 (90352450)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords第二言語習得 / バイリンガルの認知 / Bilingual cognition
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The current study investigated the effects of second language acquisition on learners' cognition. From psychological experiment it was revealed that there was a cognitive difference between high and low English proficiency groups. From an fMRI study, the results showed that even if the learner's second language proficiency was high, the brain regions responsible for processing second language grammar were different from that of native speakers. Also, it was found that working memory plays an important role for the process of second language grammar.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

Research Products

(16 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (8 results) (of which Open Access: 6 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Shape / material preference on an intem categorizing task : cases of monolingual and bilingual speakers of German and Japanese2017

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Misaki MINOURA and Lucas SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 40 Pages: 35-41

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A Game-Pragmatic Approach to Interpreting Ambiguous Utterances2017

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, and Lucas SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 40 Pages: 29-34

    • NAID

      120006342083

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Preliminary Description of a Toy Model for Bilingual Concepts2016

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, and Lucas SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 38 Pages: 65-72

    • NAID

      110010001589

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Preliminary Description of a Toy Model for Bilingual Concepts2015

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Lucas SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 38 Pages: 65-72

    • NAID

      110010001589

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A preliminary report on a correlation between the Minimal English Test and the Music Ability Test2015

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Kenichi HAYASHI, Lucas SINCLAIR, Yo HAMADA
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 37 Pages: 19-24

    • NAID

      120006341981

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Game Theory, Pragmatics, and Conceptual Spaces2015

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Lucas, SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 37 Pages: 25-34

    • NAID

      110009934998

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A preliminary report on a correlation between the Minimal English Test and German Diploma in Japan : Future possibilities of measuring third language learners’ second language proficiency2015

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Yidan ZHANG, Lucas SINCLAIR
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 36 Pages: 59-64

    • NAID

      120006341898

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] A preliminary report – the effect of the Minimal English Test for Listening, the results from 2012 and 20132014

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Lucas SINCLAIR, Jun. A. TAKAHASHI, Natsumi HATTORI, , Misaki MINOURA, Rin MIURA, and Yidan ZHANG
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University

      Volume: 35 Pages: 63-67

    • NAID

      40020206159

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Brain activation associated with Japanese case particles processing - Comparison between native and non-native speakers of Japanese2017

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Motofumi SUMIYA, Takahiko KOIKE, Takaaki YOSHIMOTO, Naoya AOKI, Norihiro SADATO
    • Organizer
      The 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2017)
    • Place of Presentation
      Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
    • Year and Date
      2017-06-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Neural Substrates of Automatized Syntactic Processes2016

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Motofumi SUMIYA, Naoya AOKI, Mika YAMAZAKI-MURASE and Norihiro SADATO
    • Organizer
      The Seventh CLS International Conference CLaSIC 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      National University of Singapore
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-01
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Bilingual Cognition? Comparison Between Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers on an Item Categorisation Task2016

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Lucas SINCLAIR, and Tim PALMROOS
    • Organizer
      Pacific Second Language Research Forum: PacSLRF, Japan Second Language Association: J-SLA
    • Place of Presentation
      Chuo University, Tama Campus
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-09
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Is a musically talented person also talented at learning English? A correlation between English proficiency and the Music Ability Test (MAT)2015

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Kenichi HAYASHI, Lucas SINCLAIR, & Yo HAMADA
    • Organizer
      The 17th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2015)
    • Place of Presentation
      Beppu International Convention Center (B-ConPlaza)
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Does music learning experience help learning English? - A correlation between English proficiency and the Music Ability Test (MAT)2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenichi HAYASHI, Chise KASAI, Sinclair, Lucas SINCLAIR, & Yo HAMADA
    • Organizer
      The 15th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2015)
    • Place of Presentation
      Hiroshima University
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-06
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] English proficiency and cognitive changes, the case of Japanese high school students learning English2014

    • Author(s)
      Chise Kasai, Jun A. Takahashi, Lucas Sinclair, Natsumi Hattori, Kenichi Hayashi, Rin Miura, & Yidan Zhang
    • Organizer
      The Sixth CLS International Conference (CLaSIC 2014)
    • Place of Presentation
      The National University of Singapore
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-04 – 2014-12-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Bilingual perception- Analytic-holistic difference and second language proficiency2014

    • Author(s)
      Chise Kasai, Jun A. Takahashi, Lucas Sinclair, Natsumi Hattori, Kenichi Hayashi, Rin Miura, & Yidan Zhang
    • Organizer
      The 16th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS20134)
    • Place of Presentation
      Bunkyo University
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-28 – 2014-06-29
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Bilingual Cognition – Is English learned in Japan cognitively effective?2014

    • Author(s)
      Chise KASAI, Lucas Sinclair, Jun A. TAKAHASHI, Natsumi HATTORI, Arisa IWAI, Misaki MINOURA, Rin MIURA, Yidan ZHANG
    • Organizer
      The 14th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association,
    • Place of Presentation
      Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya Uegahara
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-31 – 2014-06-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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