ESRC-JSLARF Applied Linguistics

Funded by ESRC UK-Japan Connection Grant (ES/S013024/1), and forming a team of UK- and Japan-based researchers in education and neuroscience, this is the very first international and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our goal was to conduct an interdisciplinary research synthesis about the neurocognitive foundations of successful second language learning. As such, we have attempted to identify training methods matched to individual cognitive profiles and maximize the benefits of L2 instruction.

UK TEAM
PI Kazuya Saito (UCL, Education)
CI Adam Tierney (Birkbeck, University of London, Neuroscience)
CI Andrea Revesz (UCL, Education)

JP TEAM
CI Motoaki Sugiura (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Hyeonjeong Jeong (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Yuichi Suzuki (Kanagawa University, Education)

Special support members
Masaru Yamamoto (University of British Columbia)
Ingrid Mora-Plaza (University of Barcelona)
Yui Suzukida (Juntendo University)