Faculty Information - TOMOKO HASHIMOTO |

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TOMOKO HASHIMOTO

Department / Course Tokyo Future University School of Child Psychology Department of Child Psychology Speciality of Childcare

Job Associate Professor

Academic conference presentation
2025/02	Architectural Innovation and Educational Philosophy in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Case of Fuji Kindergarten in Japan (Teacher 2025 – International Teaching Conference)
2025/01	Research in and for Social Action: Canadian Grassroots Soccer as Global Childhood Education in Japan (23rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education)
2024/09	Parents of Pre-primary School Children in Japan: Expectations of English Education (ELLME'24 International Conference)
2024/08	Engagement in pre-primary second language acquisition settings (21st AILA World Congress)
2024/07	Creating a Role-play Task Appropriate for Japanese Fifth Graders: An Exploratory Study (Task-Based Language Teaching in Asia 2024)
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Book and thesis
2025/03	Papers	Cooperative Learning in Elementary English Education: Insights Based on a Review of Previous Studies (Sole-authored)
2025	Books	Architectural innovation and educational philosophy in early childhood education and care: The case study of Fuji Kindergarten in Japan Emerging Trends in Education 9,pp.14-28 (Co-authored)
2025	Books	Strategies to Improve Children’s English Speech Production in Kindergarten Immersion Settings Emerging Trends in Education 9,pp.1-13 (Co-authored)
2025	Papers	English education in Japanese elementary schools MindBrainEd Think Tanks: Learning Inside and Outside the Language Classroom 11 (6),pp.29-35 (Co-authored)
2024/09	Papers	The Motivational Journey to Take the Japanese Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioner License Examination: Autoethnography on Becoming a Hoikushi The Journal of Childcare and Education (11),pp.57-68 (Sole-authored)
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Academic background
2019/04～2022/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) Doctorate Program Graduate School of Global Japanese Studies Meiji University Finished Ph.D.
2017/04～2019/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) Master's program Graduate School of Global Japanese Studies Meiji University Finished Master
2001/04～2003/03	Master School education Graduate School of Education Tokyo Gakugei University Finished Master
1996/04～2000/03	Faculty of Literature Waseda University Graduated

Business career
2023/04 ～	Part-time researcher for university or other academic organization
2023/04 ～	Part-time researcher for university or other academic organization
2022/04 ～ 2023/04	Felicia College of Childhood Education Global Childhood Education Department
2017/09 ～ 2023/03	Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
2017/08 ～ 2018/08	Tsurukawa Women's Junior College
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Main Subject
English II, English Communication II, Methodology for Teaching Elementary English

Belonging society
2024/09 ～	Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network (ELLME)
2021/11 ～ 2023/03	Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (KoTESOL)
2018/03 ～ 2024/03	International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning (IAPLL)

Activity in society
2014/07	E-learning teaching material "TOEIC (R) test utilization course to improve Business English"

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2023/04 ～ 2026/03	What encourages English oral production of kindergarten children in an English immersion classroom? (KAKEN Early Researchers Grant) Research by External Competitive Fund
2022/04 ～ 2023/03	2022 Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) CUE Research Grant Research by External Competitive Fund
2019/04 ～ 2020/03	2018 Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Research Grant Research by External Competitive Fund

Research Field
2019/03	Meiji University Graduate School Dean's Award

Present specialized field
Applied Linguistics, English Education keyword(Applied Linguistics, English Education)

Department laboratory expense researcher number
50816238