Keiko Yoshioka
Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.
- Name
- Dr. K. Yoshioka
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2553
- k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5217-588x
Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones, and politeness in language use. Her recent research examines how speakers, in both native and second languages, use gestures, intonation, and ideophones to describe everyday events like motion. She also studies how gesture features such as form, size, and synchronisation with speech reveal L2 language development. Additionally, she is interested in how politeness shapes the use of gestures in conversations and classroom settings.
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Research
Field of interest
My research interests focus on the psychology of second language acquisition. I am particularly interested in how the knowledge of learners’ L1 (mother tongue) and L2 (the second, third etc. language(s)) possibly interact in various L2 situations. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach (linguistic and psychological), and analyze speech as well as gestures which co-occur with speech. The domains of language use that I am interested are those of space and time. I am also interested in language pedagogy with a specific focus on Japanese as a second language.
Dissertation
PhD University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Dissertation title: “Linguistic and gestural introduction and tracking of referents in L1 and L2 discourse”, completed October 2005.
CV
Education
PhD Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands. Area of concentration: Second language acquisition, gesture studies and Japanese linguistics.
MA Department of Foreign Languages, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, U.S.A. Area of concentration: Second language acquisition, teaching English as a second language (TESOL).
BA Department of English Language Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Key publications
Selected work
(in print) (with Beryl Hilberink-Schulpen). The role of grammar in the conceptualization of ‘progression’: A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions. In Filipović, Luna and Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Eds.), Space and time across languages and cultures. Cambridge: John Benjamins.
2009. Dainigengo shuutoku kenkyu ni okeru gesuchaa kenkyu (Gesture studies in SLA research). Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language (in Japanese), 12: 127-144.
2008. Gesture and information structure in L2 discourse, Gesture 8(2): 236-255.
Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS Japan
- Yoshioka K. & Iwasaki N. (2024), What does gesture size tell us about L2 language acquisition and use?: Gestures accompanying ideophones in L2 Japanese. In: Brown A. & Eskildsen S. (Eds.), Multimodality across epistemologies in second language research. London: Roudledge. 268-282.
- Yoshioka K. & Iwasaki N. (2021), Grammatical integration of mimetics and accompanying gestures in L2 Japanese discourse. In: Jeon H.S., Sell P., You Z., Kita S. & Yeon J. (Eds.). Japanese/Korean Linguistics no. 28. Stanford: CSLI publications. 377-391.
- Iwasaki N. & Yoshioka K. (2020), Thinking-for-speaking to describe motion events: English-Japanese bilinguals’ L1 English and L2 Japanese speech and gesture. In: Pappalardo G. & Heinrich P. (Eds.), European approaches to Japanese language and linguistics. Ca'Foscari Japanese Studies: Arts and Literature no. 13: Ca'Foscari. 71-98.
- Iwasaki N. & Yoshioka K. (2019), Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers' multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency. In: Akita K. & Pardeshi P. (Eds.), Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 265-302.
- Yoshioka K. (2017), Acquisition of mimetics and the development of proficiency in L2 Japanese: a longitudinal case study of an L1 Dutch speaker's speech and gesture. In: Iwasaki N., Selles P. & Akita K. (Eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation: Routledge. 172-192.
- Sekine K. Stam G., Yoshioka K., Tellier M. & Capirci O. (2015), Cross-linguistic views of gesture usage, VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 12: 91-105.
- Yoshioka K. & Hilberink-Schulpen B. (2012), The role of grammar in conceptualization of 'progression': a comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions. In: Filipovic L. & Jaszczolt K.M. (Eds.), Space and time in languages and cultures: linguistic diversity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 417-436.
- Sekine K. & Yoshioka K. (2011), Does stereo types for gestures exist?, Proceedings of the 22nd Japan Society of Developmental Psychology. 96.
- Yoshioka K. (2011), Integrating can-do statements in Japanese reading courses, The state of the art of Japanese language education in Europe: Language teaching practices based on CEFR-standards and possibilities of implementing JF standards. 118-123.
- Yoshioka K. (2010), Gesture and information structure in L2 discourse. In: Gullberg M. & Bot K. de (Eds.), Gestures in Language Development: John Benjamins. 93-112.
- Yoshioka K. (2009), Gesture studies in SLA research, Acquisition of Japanese as a second language 12: 127-144.
- Yoshioka K. (2008), Gesture and information structure in first and second language, Gesture 8(2): 236-255.
- Yoshioka K. (2008), Linguistic and gestural introduction of inanimate referents in L1 and L2 narrative. In: McCafferty S. & Stam G. (Eds.), Gesture: Second language acquisition and classroom research. New York: Routledge. 211-230.
- Yoshioka K. (2008), Linguistic and gestural reference to ground information in L2 narrative. In: Ogura T., Kobayashi H., Inagaki S., Hirakawa M., Arita S. & Terao Y. (Eds.), Studies in language Sciences 7. Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishers. 197-212.
- Yoshioka K. (2008), Reference introduction in speech and gesture-a comparison of Dutch and Japanese. In: Heinrich H. & Sugita Y. (Eds.), Japanese as foreign language in the age of globalization. München: Iudicium. 189-2006.
- Yoshioka K. (2008), Gesture and information structure in L2 discourse, Gesture 8(2): 236-255.
- Yoshioka K. (2006), Manual introduction of animate referents in L2 Narrative. In: Negishi M., Umino T. & Yoshitomi A. (Eds.), Readings in second language pedagogy and second language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 179-199.
- Yoshioka K. & Kellerman E. (2006), Gestural introduction of ground reference in L2 narrative, International Review of Applied Linguistics 44(2): 173-196.
- Yoshioka K., Matsuo K., Ogiso S., Oshima K., Sakurai N., Sato N., Sulzbergerger-Miki S. & Tanaka K. (2005), Leraning and teaching Japanese language in Europe and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Tokyo: The Japan Foundation.