AKITA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY GLOBAL REVIEW Volume VII 2015 AIU Global Review Volume 7 2015 Published by Akita International University Press Akita, Japan 2015 Editorial Board Editor-in-chief: Peter MCCAGG, Ph.D. Editor: Clay WILLIAMS Assistant Editor: TOYODA Tetsuya and AKIBA Takeshi Editorial Assistant: HASEYAMA Yoriko ISSN 1883-8243 © COPYRIGHT 2015 Akita International University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Publisher: SUZUKI Norihiko Akita International University Press Akita city, Yuwa, Japan 010-1292 http://www.aiu.ac.jp Tel : 81-18 886-5900 Fax: 81-18-886-5910 Printed in Japan iii CONTENTS List of Contributors ........................................................ i Call for Manuscripts ...................................................... iv 1. Articles Malaysian University Students and Japanese: The Effectiveness of Using Cantonese in the Phonetic Teaching of Kanji UNI Kazuhito and Paul Chamness MILLER ................... 1 Factors Influencing Motivation Formation for Learning English in Japan TOYOSHIMA Saeko....................................................... 23 How to Teach the Japanese Pitch Pattern Visually WATANABE Seiji ........................................................... 47 Modernist Gendaishi Poetry on the Postwar Crossroad Alexander DOLIN ........................................................... 59 The Passage to Paris and Far East Artistic Awakening through Japanese painters: Tsuguharu Léonard Foujita (1886-1968) and Koichiro Kondo (1884-1962) ABE Kuniko .................................................................... 91 2. President’s Project Research Fund, Project Reports The Benefits of Spending a Longer Period in EAP Rachael RUEGG and NAGANUMA Naeko ................ 112 v 3. Book Review: by TOYODA Tetsuya Mineo Nakajima, The Origin of the Images of Contemporary China: Mineo Nakajima’s Selected Works, J. F. Oberlin University Institute for Northeast Asian Studies, 2015 ................................................................. 134 vi List of Contributors (Alphabetical Order by Surname) ABE, Kuniko Dr. Kuniko Abe is an Assistant Professor of Basic Education, International Liberal Arts, at AIU. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (France). After graduating from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, she contributed to Cultural Heritage missions of the French Ministry of Culture / UNESCO and the Louvre Museum. She is the author of articles on World Art through André Malraux’s aesthetic theories (CIHA, 2018) as well as Cultural identity and Universal value. In 2013, she presented one of her academic papers at the International conference: Artworks between ambition for identity and aspiration to the universal at the Catholic University of Paris. Alexander DOLIN Alexander Dolin (b.1949 ) started his academic career at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and there received a Ph.D. degree in Japanese Literature. After moving to Japan in 1992 he worked for twelve years as Professor of Comparative Literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and then at Akita International University as Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture. Dr. Dolin is the author of several comprehensive monographs on Japanese literature and culture, including History of New Japanese Poetry in 4 volumes, The Bronze Age of Japanese Poetry et al. His works on Japanese and Russian literature, culture, and society have been published in Russian, German, English and Japanese. He has also published translations of numerous masterpieces from classical and modern Japanese literature, especially a number of anthologies and individual collections introducing Japanese poetry ranging from ancient times to the present day. Paul Chamness MILLER Paul Chamness Miller, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes at Akita International University in Japan. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on instructional methods of teaching languages, critical pedagogy and the issues of under-represented youth and teachers in the K-12 setting. He is currently serving a term as President of the International Society for Language Studies, and the Immediate Past Chair of the Second Language Research SIG of vii the American Educational Research Association. He is also Editor of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, an international journal published by Taylor & Francis and co-editor of Research in Queer Studies, a book series published by Information Age in the U.S. He has published seven books and has six others in press, and has published 16 peer-reviewed journal articles. NAGANUMA Naeko Naeko Naganuma is an Assistant Professor in the English for Academic Purposes program at Akita International University. She has an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (emphasis on Applied Linguistics) from Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota, U.S.A. Her research interests include pragmatics, CALL, and intercultural competence. Rachael RUEGG Rachael Ruegg is a lecturer in the English for Academic Purposes department and Coordinator of the Academic Achievement Center. She has an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include teaching and assessment of writing and reading. She can be contacted at: rachaelruegg@gmail. com TOYODA Tetsuya Toyoda Tetsuya is teaching international law and international organisations at AIU since 2007, with an interruption from August 2013 to April 2014 for his fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, D.C. in the U.S. Before joining AIU, he was a project researcher at the University of Tokyo (2006-2007) and an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994-2000). He graduated from the University of Tokyo and obtained his Diplôme d’études approfondies from the University of Paris II- Panthéon-Assas in France. He is the author of Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) and number of articles in Japanese, English and French. TOYOSHIMA Saeko Toyoshima Saeko is an Assistant Professor in the Teacher’s License Program at Akita International University. She completed her PhD in Education at the University of York, UK, in 2007. She worked as an English teacher at a private senior high school for six years and studied applied linguistics (SLA theory) in a master course. She has nine viii years of experience at universities in Tokyo, Yamanashi, and Saitama Pref., primarily teaching English language and English teaching methods for primary and secondary schools. She was also the program director for English courses at Tsuda College Open School for seven years, organizing the curriculum for adult learners and managing faculty development for instructors. Her research interests are primary, secondary, and tertiary English education in Japan, Japanese learners of English, language learning motivation and strategies, the relationship between reading comprehension and vocabulary size and quality, and qualitative research methods (especially interview methods). WATANABE Seiji Seiji Watanabe graduated from Saitama University. After working in the Nerima ward office for seven years, he taught Japanese at the University of Oklahoma for one year from 1994-1995. He received an MA in linguistics from the University of Teas at El Paso in 2000 and received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2009. He specializes in Japanese phonology and phonetics. The title of his dissertation is “Cultural and Educational Contributions to Recent Phonological Changes in Japanese”. He has taught Japanese as a Foreign Language at Akita International University since 2009. UNI Kazuhito Kazuhito Uni is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2010, he obtained a master’s degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. His research interests include teaching Japanese, English, and French as foreign languages. ix Call for Manuscripts Manuscripts for Volume 8 (2016) of the AIU Global Review must be sent to AIU Press ([email protected]) as an attachment to an email by September 30, 2016. Manuscripts undergo blind peer review by at least two qualified scholars. Manuscripts MUST conform to the following guidelines: 1. All articles must be the result of original academic research bringing new elements to scholarship and of up to 10,000 words (or up to 1,000 words for a book review), including footnotes and bibliography. Please note that the journal also welcomes articles on pedagogy, empirical or theoretical in nature, with a clear potential for contributing to the relevant academic field either by their innovative approaches or by their theoretical elaboration going beyond a narration of personal experiences. 2. Manuscripts are to be submitted in Microsoft Word format, single-spaced, Times New Roman font, size 11 for texts and size 10 for footnotes. Margins 25.4 mm from each of four sides, with custom page size 159.8 mm wide and 236 mm high. 3. Include a concise abstract at the beginning of the manuscript, with three to five key words. 4. Capitalize each major word in the manuscript’s title, section heading and illustration titles. 5. Embolden section headings. 6. Italicize all foreign words (including Japanese words) and titles