Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education
Academic & Professional Experience
2022/04 - Today 東洋大学文学部国際文化コミュニケーション学科 教授
2020/04 - Today Kinjo Gakuin UniversityCollege of Humanities Department of Englishprofessor
2013/04 - Today Kinjo Gakuin UniversityAssociate Professor
2012/04 - 2020/03 Kinjo Gakuin UniversityDepartment of English, College of HumanitiesAssociate Professor (tenured)
2007/04 - 2011/03 Kinjo Gakuin UniversityDepartment of English, College of HumanitiesAssistant Professor (tenured)
Education
1999/04 - 2001/03 The Graduate School of Language and Culture, Nagoya University
1995/04 - 1999/03 Waseda University
Association Memberships
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY American Association for Applied Linguistics
Fogal, G; Nitta, R; Baba, K (ContributorChapter 7 "A complex dynamic systems account of written corrective feedback and L2 writing development")Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020 9781527548145 Newcastle upon Tyne
G. G. Fogal & M. Verspoor (Eds). Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task?
BABA, Kyoko (ContributorChap.1 Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task?)John Benjamins 2020
K. Koda, & J. Yamashita (Eds) Reading to learn in a foreign language
BABA, Kyoko (ContributorChap. 3 Challenges for an EFL teacher and basic writers: Negotiating space for change under a rigid curriculum (pp. 111-133).)Routledge 2019
M. Bygate (Ed). Understanding benefits of repetition from a complex dynamic systems perspective: The case of a writing task.
Nitta, Ryo; BABA, Kyoko (ContributorChapter 11. Understanding benefits of repetition from a complex dynamic systems perspective)2018
『はじめての第二言語習得論講義―英語学習への複眼的アプローチ』
馬場今日子; 新多了 (Joint work)大修館 2016 9784469246087
中野 弘三, 服部 義弘, 小野 隆啓(編)『最新英語学・言語学用語辞典』
馬場今日子 (Contributor)開拓社 2015
Z. Dörnyei, P. MacIntyre, & A. Henry (Eds). Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning
Nitta, R; Baba, K (ContributorChap. 21 Self-Regulation in the Evolution of the Ideal L2 Self: A Complex Dynamic Systems Approach to the L2 Motivational Self System)Multilingual Matters 2015
H. Byrnes & R. M. Manchón (Eds). Task-based Language Teaching: Insights from and for L2 writing
Nitta, Ryo; BABA, Kyoko (ContributorChap. 5 Task Repetition and L2 Writing Development: A Longitudinal Study from a Dynamic Systems Perspective)John Benjamins 2014
P. M. McCarthy & C. Boonthum (Eds.) Applied Natural Language Processing and content analysis: Identification, Investigation, and Resolution
BABA, Kyoko; Nitta, Ryo (ContributorChap.23 Dynamic effects of repeating a timed writing task in two EFL university courses: Multi-element text analysis with Coh-Metrix)IGI Global 2011
A. Cumming (Ed.) Goals for academic writing: ESL students and their instructors
Kim, T.-Y; Baba, K; Cumming, A (ContributorChap. 8 Goals, motivations, and identities of three students’ writing in English.)John Benjamins 2006
インターネットと英語学習
馬場今日子 (Contributor英語学習用マルチメディア教材の選び方)開文社 2001
Conference Activities & Talks
Researching learner agency from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory perspective: A multilayered approach [Not invited]
Nitta, R; Baba, K
European Second Language Association 32 2023/08 Oral presentation
Understanding L2 writing development from the perspective of learner agency: Biographical retrodiction [Invited]
Nitta, R; Baba, K
the colloquium “L2 writing research: The dynamics and complexity of writing development (Chair: Gary Fogal)” at AILA 2021, Virtual 2021/08 Nominated symposium
Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task? [Invited]
Dynamic effects of task type practice on the Japanese EFL university student's writing: Text analysis with Coh-Metrix [Not invited]
BABA, Kyoko; NITTA, Ryo
FLAIRS2010 (Florida, United States) 2010/05 Oral presentation
Does task type practice serve the university student’s L2 writing development?: A longitudinal study from a dynamic systems perspective [Not invited]
BABA, Kyoko; NITTA, Ryo
AAAL2010 (Atlanta, United States) 2010/03 Oral presentation
Effects of task type practice on the Japanese EFL university student's writing from a dynamic systems perspective: A longitudinal study utilizing multi-level text analysis [Not invited]
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2012/04 -2017/03
Author : BABA, Kyoko
We investigated, from a complex dynamic systems perspective, how Japanese EFL students changed their L2 writing by repeating a timed-writing task every week for one year. We found that writing fluency can develop following the same pattern, regardless of the learners’ writing proficiency or the content of their essays. We also found that the learners’ self-regulation, motivation, and writing performance interacted with and co-adapted to each other in a complex way.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2009/04 -2012/03
Author : BABA, Kyoko
We investigated from a dynamic systems perspective how Japanese EFL students changed their L2 writing by repeating a timed-writing task every week for one year. We found(1) that grammatical complexity rose to a greater extent than did fluency when a class as a whole was analyzed, (2) that there was long-term effects on grammatical complexity and lexical complexity, but few short-time effects on these aspects of writing, and (3) that if students wrote detailed reflective comments in Japanese after a timed-writing task, their fluency was improved notably.
Canadian Modern Language Review Student Presentation Award
Canadian Modern Language Review:
Date (from‐to) : 2006/04
Author : BABA, Kyoko
Government of Canada Award
Government of Canada:
Date (from‐to) : 2004 -2006
Author : BABA, Kyoko
Graduate Assistantship
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto:
Date (from‐to) : 2002 -2006
Author : BABA, Kyoko
OISE/UT Scholarship
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto:
Date (from‐to) : 2001 -2005
Author : BABA, Kyoko
Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto:
Date (from‐to) : 2005
Author : BABA, Kyoko
Academic Excellence Award
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto:
Date (from‐to) : 2005
Author : BABA, Kyoko
TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment
Educational Testing Service:
Date (from‐to) : 2004
Author : BABA, Kyoko
The Rotary Foundation Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship
The Rotary Foundation:
Date (from‐to) : 2001 -2003
Author : BABA, Kyoko
Social Contribution
Member of the editorial board of Journal of Second Language Writing
Date (from-to) : 2023/01-Today
Role : Others
Category : Others
Reviewer for Journal of Second Language Writing
Date (from-to) : 2022
Role : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Elsevier
Language Teachingの査読委員
Date (from-to) : 2021
Role : Others
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL)の査読委員
Date (from-to) : 2021
Role : Others
Studies in Language Sciencesの査読委員
Date (from-to) : 2020
Role : Others
American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2020の査読委員
Date (from-to) : 2020
Role : Others
the International Review of Applied Linguisticsの査読委員
Date (from-to) : 2020
Role : Others
Reviewer for American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2020
Date (from-to) : 2019
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : アメリカ応用言語学会
Reviewer for Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Date (from-to) : 2019
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Elsevier
Reviewer for American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2019
Date (from-to) : 2018
Role : Others
Category : Others
Reviewer for Journal of Second Language Writing
Date (from-to) : 2018
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Elsevier
Reviewer for Applied Linguistics
Date (from-to) : 2017
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Oxford Academic
Reviewer for American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2018
Date (from-to) : 2017
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : アメリカ応用言語学会
Reviewer for American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2017
Date (from-to) : 2016
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : アメリカ応用言語学会
Reviewer for The Modern Language Journal
Date (from-to) : 2016
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Wiley
Reviewer for Journal of Second Language Writing
Date (from-to) : 2016
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Elsevier
Reviewer for Applied Linguistics
Date (from-to) : 2016
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Oxford Academic
Reviewer for Journal of Second Language Writing
Date (from-to) : 2015
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Elsevier
Reviewer for American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2016
Date (from-to) : 2015
Role : Others
Category : Others
Reviewer for Applied Linguistics
Date (from-to) : 2015
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Oxford Academic
Reviewer for The Modern Language Journal
Date (from-to) : 2015
Role : Others
Category : Others
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : Wiley
Local Associate for Symposium on Second Language Writing 2007