Masaru Yamamoto
PhD
he / him / his
Research
(Critical) Applied Linguistics, Multilingual Socialization, (Multimodal) Academic Discourse Socialization, Social Network Analysis, Multimodality
Biography
Masaru Yamamoto (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His research interests encompass critical applied linguistics, multilingual socialization, multimodality, and most recently, L2 study-abroad research and social network analysis. His professional commitment has involved accessible knowledge mobilization (print and multimedia), multimedia materials development, and community-building initiatives for local and global applied linguistics communities. Masaru is a recipient of the AAAL Graduate Student Award (2022). His work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse (Prior & Paltridge), BC TEAL Journal, among other venues in English and Japanese. His ongoing doctoral dissertation project explores the sociorelational complexities of multilingual socialization experienced by a cohort of undergraduate students from a Japanese university on a study-abroad program at a Canadian university.