Misako TajimaProfessor
■Researcher basic information
Organization
Degree
Educational Background
- Otsuma Women's University, Faculty of Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature
- Seijo University, Graduate School of Literature, Department of English Studies
- University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Education, Master Course (Language and Literacy)
- University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Education, Master Course (Applied Linguistics)
- University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Doctor Course (Education)
Member History
- Apr. 2024 - Present, journal editorial committee member, Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)
- Apr. 2022 - Present, board member, Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)
- Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026, board member, The Japanese Association for Asian Englishes
- Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2024, annual conference committee member, Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)
■Research activity information
Award
Paper
- A self-reflection on language teaching practice through a 'spectrum lens': A case study of an online student exchange between Japan and Australia
Tajima, M.
Journal of Liberal Arts Education (Institute for Innovation in Education, Ibaraki University), Mar. 2026, [Reviewed] - Ideological positioning of Serbian teachers in Japan's online eikaiwa industry: Peripheral whiteness and exploitation of Eastern European labor
Tajima, M.
Japan Forum, Feb. 2026, [Reviewed] - Effectiveness of an online student exchange program between Japan and Australia: Focusing on STEM students at a Japanese university
Tajima, M.
Asian English Studies, Dec. 2025, [Reviewed] - Response or responsibility? Japanese language teacher education: Rethinking frameworks in the era of "governance as education" [in Japanese]
Minamiura, R.; Seo, M.; Tajima, M.
Journal of Japanese Language Education, Apr. 2025, [Invited] - Opening teaching practices: Shared knowledge as commons
Tajima, M.
Journal of Liberal Arts Education (Institute for Innovation in Education, Ibaraki University), Mar. 2025, [Reviewed] - Caring and loving teachers online: Personality in the feminized labour of,Filipina English language teachers
Simpson; W.; Tajima; M., De Gruyter Mouton
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Jan. 2024, [Reviewed] - Translation of academic books by a researcher and language teacher who is not a professional translator: Producing shared knowledge as commons [in Japanese]
Association of Language and Cultural Education
Studies of Language and Cultural Studies, Dec. 2022 - Rethinking the notion of language learning: Engagement with English
Tajima; M.
JALT2021: Reflections and New Perspectives, Aug. 2022, [Reviewed] - The significance of crossing the boundaries: A case study of an online student exchange project between Ibaraki University and UNSW, Sydney [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.; & Fukui; N., Lead
Journal of Liberal Arts Education (Institute for Liberal Arts Education, Ibaraki University), Mar. 2022, [Reviewed] - Engagement with English as a neoliberal endeavor: Reconsidering the notion of language learning
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Mar. 2020, [Reviewed] - A Study on the necessary English skills for engineering students: Results of a needs survey on faculty members' perception [in Japanese]
Journal of Global Education (Institute for Liberal Arts Education, Ibaraki University), Feb. 2020, [Reviewed] - Gender concerns in Japan's Skype eikaiwa industry
JALT2018: Diversity and Inclusion, 2019, [Reviewed] - Engagements with English in Japan: Ideological constitutions of the language and its speakers
University of Technology Sydney
(doctoral dissertation), Aug. 2018, [Reviewed] - Gendered constructions of Filipina teachers in Japan’s English conversation industry
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Feb. 2018, [Reviewed] - Implications for the WE and ELF paradigms arising from the view of ‘language as practice’: A suggestion for textbook analysis [in Japanese]
Asian English Studies, 2016, [Reviewed] - Introducing the Extremely Short Story Competition (ESSC) into a secondary school: A teacher’s self-reflection and student voices [in Japanese]
田嶋 美砂子, 日本「アジア英語」学会
Asian English Studies, 2014, [Reviewed] - Ideological messages embedded in an EFL textbook
JALT2010 Conference Proceedings, 2011, [Reviewed] - Ideological messages embedded in an EFL textbook
The Language Teacher, 2011, [Invited] - Critical self-reflection: A performative act
The Language Teacher, 2010, [Reviewed] - The shifting demographics of student population in Australia's adult education: Under the name of multiculturalism and internationalization of higher education [in Japanese]
The Otemon Journal of Australian Studies, 2008, [Reviewed] - A critical analysis of an approved English textbook for lower secondary school students in Japan: Embedded cultural values and ideologies
田嶋 美砂子, Seijo University
Seijo English Monographs, 2008
Books and other publications
- [Translation] Pennycook, A. (2021). Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Re-Introduction
Tajima, M., Single translation, Pennycook, A.
Sangensha, Apr. 2026
9784883036271 - MY WAY English series English Communication I (revised)
飯野厚他, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2026 - NEW CROWN English series 1-3
工藤洋路他, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2025 - English, me, and the public sphere: A critical applied linguistics perspective [book chapter, in Japanese]
Tajima, M.
Akashi Shoten, Oct. 2024
9784750358383 - MY WAY English series English Communication III
飯野厚他, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2024
9784385727776 - Commodification of teachers in the Filipino online eikaiwa industry [in Japanese]
Tajima, M., Others
ココ出版, Dec. 2023
9784866760681 - MY WAY English series English Communication II
飯野厚,他12名, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2023
9784385727714 - Discursive positioning of the Philippines and Filipino teachers in the online Eikaiwa industry (in M. Mielick, R. Kubota, & L. Lawrence (Eds.). Discourses of Identity: Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan)
Tajima; M.
Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2023, [Reviewed]
9783031119873 - MY WAY English series English Communication I
飯野厚,他12名, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2022 - [Translation] Kumaravadivelu, B. (2012). Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing
Minamiura; R.; Seo; M.; & Tajima; M., Joint translation, Kumaravadivelu; B.
Shumpusha, Feb. 2022
9784861107597 - NEW CROWN English series 1-3
根岸雅史, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2021 - 'Engagements' with English in Japan: Leisure activities, self-development, and dogged perseverance [book chapter, in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
Sangensha, Dec. 2020
9784883035212 - MY WAY English series Communication English I (revised)
森住衛, Contributor
Sanseido, Apr. 2017 - Rethinking 'Japanese English' for EIAL [in Japanese] In M. Imura & K. Haida (Eds.). Collection of academic papers in celebration of Professor Mamoru Morizumi’s retirement: Questioning Japan’s language education with special reference to eight objections.
Tajima; M., Single work
Sanseido, May 2015, [Reviewed] - Collection of academic papers in celebration of Professor Mamoru Morizumi’s retirement: Questioning Japan’s language education with special reference to eight objections [in Japanese, co-edited]
Imura, M.; Haida, K., Joint editor
Sanseido, May 2015
9784385362106
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- Who constructs knowledge in applied linguistics? — An “epistemological racism” perspective
JASELE 2025, 10 Aug. 2025 - Critical self-reflection on language education practices through a lens of 'spectrum': A case study of online student exchange with an Australian university [in Japanese]
The 11th ALCE Annual Conference, 02 Mar. 2025 - Decolonizing critical applied linguistics: What can be done in the field of ELT in Japan? [in Japanese]
JASELE 2024, 24 Aug. 2024 - AI and language [in Japanese]
Sasai; K.; & Tajima; M.
The 10th ALCE Annual Conference, Mar. 2024 - English language learning and fitness: language, body, and governmentality [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
2023JSAA-ICNTJ, 02 Sep. 2023 - Discourse analysis as a resource to transform ideologies: Living together in difference [in Japanese]
Shimazu; M.; Kumagai; Y.; Kamiyoshi; U.; Doerr; N.; and Tajima; M.
2023JSAA-ICNTJ, 01 Sep. 2023 - Rethinking the frameworks of World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and English imperialism: A perspective of critical applied linguistics [in Japanese]
JASELE Conference 2023, 20 Aug. 2023 - Language learners’ boundary crossing: How they crossed boundaries and what they learned [in Japanese]
Shimasaki; K.; Kojima; T.; Fukui; N. Thomson; C. K.; Tajima; M.; & Ohara; T.
The 9th ALCE Annual Conference, Mar. 2023 - Convivial technology brought by distributed agency: Implications for language education [in Japanese]
Ostuji; E.; & Tajima; M.
The 9th ALCE Annual Conference, Mar. 2023 - English language learning as a form of neoliberal governmentality [in Japanese]
JASELE Conference 2022, Aug. 2022 - Rethinking the notion of language learning: Engagement with English
Tajima; M.
JALT2021 47th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2021 - Rethinking the notion of language learning: Engagements with English
Tajima; M.
JALT2021 47th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2021 - Online student exchange between Japan and Australia: A collaborative project with UNSW [in Japanese]
JASELE Conference 2021, Aug. 2021 - The meaning of being connected, making use of each other's languages: A collaborative project with UNSW, Australia
Considering global education under COVID-19 Pandemic: Attempts by Ibaraki University, Mar. 2021, [Invited]
202103 - Reconsidering the notion of language use: Engagements with English in Japan [in Japanese]
46th National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, Jan. 2021 - The discursive construction of Filipina Skype eikaiwa tutors as girls
Tajima; M
GALE Forum (Gender, Language, and Community), JALT2020 46th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2020, [Invited] - English as an official corporate language in Japan
Tajima; M.
JALT2020 46th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2020 - The effectiveness of 'multifaceted research projects': Focusing on language ideology studies [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
The 6th ALCE Annual Conference, Mar. 2020 - Their impacts on English education in Japan: A theoretical perspective (On assistant language teachers from ESL regions: Impacts on English language education in Japan) [in Japanese]
45th National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, Dec. 2019, [Invited] - Language ideologies in the Skype eikaiwa context
JALT2019 45th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2019 - "Engagements" with English for self-development: Reconsidering the notion of "language learning" [in Japanese]
JASELE Conference 2019, Aug. 2019 - Ideological constitutions of 'chantoshita, kireina eigo': Focusing on Filipino Skype eikaiwa [in Japanese]
The 5th ALCE Annual Conference, Mar. 2019 - Gender concerns in Japan's Skype eikaiwa industry
JALT2018 44th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2018 - The emergence of Philippines-based Skype eikaiwa and neoliberalism [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
JASELE Conference 2018, Aug. 2018 - Rethinking the view of 'language learning': Proposing the idea of 'engagement' [in Japanese]
Reflective Practitioners 3.0, Jun. 2018 - "There are a lot of cute girls": Gendered constructions of Filipina tutors in Japan's Skype eikaiwa
42nd National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, Jun. 2018 - Rethinking "the view that nativeness equals power": Multiple phases of "nativeness" in contexts of language education [in Japanese]
Okawa; Y.; Tajima; M.; & Yoshida; M.
The 3rd ALCE Annual Conference, Feb. 2017 - The commodified concept of “correct English”: Language ideologies underpinning English language learning materials on the market [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
Symposium on Commodification and Consumption of Language Education, Jul. 2016 - Skype eikaiwa in Japan: A new fashion or refashioned tradition?
Tajima; M.
The 4th International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, Nov. 2015 - An ideological struggle with the notion of the “native English speaker”: A case study of self-study ELL books and readers’ reactions
Tajima; M.
35th National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, Dec. 2014 - (Re)construction of the notion of a native speaker displayed on online shopping sites
Tajima; M.
The 12th Asia TEFL International Conference, Aug. 2014 - The possibilities of the Extremely Short Story Competition (ESSC)
Tajima; M.
The 11th Asia TEFL International Conference, Oct. 2013 - Introducing the Extremely Short Story Competition (ESSC) into a secondary school: A teacher’s self-reflection and student voices [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
JASELE Conference 2013, Aug. 2013 - The effectiveness of the Extremely Short Story Competition (ESSC): Special reference to secondary school students’ voices [in Japanese]
Tajima; M.
32nd National Conference of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, Jun. 2013 - ESSC: A way to perform a new identity in English
Tajima; M.
JALT2012 38th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Oct. 2012 - From CDA to CE
Tajima; M.
JALT2011 37th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2011 - What are the goals of ELT in Japan?: Sharing and exploring some possibilities
Tajima; M.
JALT Toyohashi Chapter Monthly Meeting, Sep. 2011, [Invited] - The possibilities of critical discourse analysis and critical ethnography
Tajima; M.
The 9th Asia TEFL International Conference, Jul. 2011 - Ideological messages embedded in an EFL textbook
Tajima; M.
JALT2010 36th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Nov. 2010
Affiliated academic society
Research Themes
- Engineering researchers' English learning and use: Teaching material development based on posthumanism
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2027 - An International Comparative Study on Perspectives of Language Education that Results in the Transformation of Discourses
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))
Kansai University
Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2027 - Language learning, gender, and language ideologies: Focusing on Filipino Skype eikaiwa
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists
Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2023 - Language Teacher Education for a Global Society [translated book]
Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2022
Academic Contribution Activities
- Postconference Publication (JALT)
Peer review
2025 - Journal of Language, Identity & Education
Peer review
2025 - Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education
Peer review
2024 - SLCE: Studies of Language and Cultural Education
Peer review
2019 - 2023 - Applied Linguistics
Peer review
2022 - Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
Peer review
2021 - International Journal of TESOL Studies
Peer review
2020 - Language and Intercultural Communication
Peer review
2019 - Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Peer review
2019 - Asian English Studies
Peer review
2018 - Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
Peer review
2018
