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GSICCS | Directed Research and Faculty Members17Study planLanguage and Communication Second Language EducationDETEY, SylvainDocteur en Sciences du Langage (Université de Toulouse II)RESEARCH FIELD:Applied Linguistics (phonetics, phonology)This course aims at nurturing future researchers and university-level teachers specializing in the eld of Second Language Acquisition / Second Language Education (English, French or any other second or third language), with a particular focus on speech perception / production (especially at the phonetic-phonological level), variation, corpora and multimodality, as well as a solid interest in educational applications. The objective of the course will be to offer an advanced comprehensive view of the core framework of the discipline, examining the linguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and pedagogical aspects that must necessarily be taken into account in any research project devoted to second language learning in the perspective of cognitive sciences. After a brief reminder of elementary notions and concepts at postgraduate level for drafting a research plan, carrying it out and writing a thesis/dissertation in the eld of Second Language Acquisition / Second Language Education, we will focus on particular research issues and projects from which students will be able to draw academic knowledge and methodological insights, which, in turn, will be connected to their own research objectives and methods. Language and SocietyIINO, MasakazuPh.D. in Sociolinguistics (University of Pennsylvania) RESEARCH FIELD:Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Language PlanningSpeech Communication and Language AcquisitionKONDO, MarikoPh.D. in Linguistics (Phonetics) (University of Edinburgh)RESEARCH FIELD:Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition, Speech ScienceSociolinguistics is a eld of linguistics which examines the complex relationship between language and society, as they mutually inuence each other. Topics covered include language and power, thought and representation, ethnography of speaking, language and gender, language change, regional and societal variation, multilingualism, language attitudes as well as language policy and language planning issues. The seminar focuses mainly on the macro sociolinguistic studies to critically examine contemporary issues on language policy and language planning from around the world. The goal of this seminar is to provide an opportunity to conduct an original research project and to complete a M.A. thesis or a Ph.D. dissertation written in English in the eld of macro or micro sociolinguistics. Students are expected to keep up with the assigned readings, to actively participate in seminar discussions, to complete a research project, to write a thesis, and to make an oral presentation on their research. Collaborated research activities with partner institutions, presentations at relevant academic conferences, and publications are also encouraged. Courses offered in GSICCS such as Language Policy and Language Planning, and Language and Society are recommended for participants in this seminar. This seminar will focus on theories and application of speech communication science and language acquisition. There is a strong focus on experimental studies of phonetics and phonology, but it also covers other linguistic areas such as psycholinguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and application of linguistic and acquisition theories for education. Student research areas include, but are not limited to: phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, interface between phonetics-phonology and pragmatics-phonology, and language acquisition of various combinations of rst and second (+) languages, e.g. Chinese, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese. We will seek interdisciplinary approaches to build up research potentials. In the seminar, students will read and discuss relevant journal articles. In addition, students will learn the practical and analytical skills they need to conduct their research and techniques to analyse the data they collect. We work closely with linguistic and speech science and technology labs in other faculties and universities, as well as with Waseda University’s Institute of Language and Speech Science. We manage an experimental speech lab, which is equipped with two recording studios and other experimental facilities. Students are encouraged to conduct their own research and present their work at internal and external research seminars and conferences, and to help with the various research projects run by the lab. ProfessorProfessorProfessor※Not in charge of directed research due to sabbatical leave from September 2018 to March 2020.