Katsumi NAGAI

1-1 Saiwaicho Takamatsu, 760-0016 JAPAN

Please drop in if you are in the area. Nagai lab is on the fourth floor of bldg #5 in Saiwaicho North Campus. (Nihongo)

Degrees

• Osaka University, Japan: Ph.D. 1999
• University of Edinburgh, Scotland: M.Sc. 1996 (with TEFL(ESL) certificate)
• Osaka University, Japan: M.A. 1995 (with Sen-shu Kyo-in Menkyo)
• Yamaguchi University, Japan: B.A. 1987

Employment History

• 2006- : Associate Professor, Centre for Research and Educational Development in Higher Education, Kagawa University, Japan
  
• 2000-2006 : Associate Professor, Tsuyama National College of Technology, Japan.
• 1998-2001 : (Part-time) Lecturer, Kansai University of Foreign Studies.
• 1997-1998 : (Part-time) Lecturer, International Student Center, Osaka University.
• 1987-2000 : (Full-time Kyo-yu) Teacher of English, Prefectural Senior High Schools, Osaka.

Grants (Principal investigator only)

• 2021- : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #21K00680)
• 2017-2019 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #17K04797)
• 2012-2014 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #24531137)
• 2007-2008 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #19520494)
• 2005-2006 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #17530678)
• 2003-2004 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #15520384)
• 2001-2002 : Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research System, (Monbu Kagakusho #13780159)
• 1996-1997 : Rotary International Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Recent Writings (Web versions only)

• Nagai Katsumi. 2024 'Understanding the relationship between letters and sounds --- Write 4 sounds with 3 letters ---' (abstract). Spring Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. (30 March 2024).
• Nagai Katsumi. 2023 'Does phoneme recognition facilitate vocabulary acquisition? --- Listening of plosive consonants by Japanese speakers ---' (pdf). Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. (17 September 2023).
• Nagai Katsumi. 2023 'Practice of British English /l/ and /r/ by Japanese learners.' (pdf). Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences. 24:17-31.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2020. 'Grammaticality judgement tests on an artificial language which includes (i) words that start with /s/ + voiced consonant and (ii) /s/ + Ce1 + V + C2 words where C1 and C2 have different places of articulation.' (pdf). Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences. 21:113-120.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2019. 'Phonemic awareness may not constitute a crucial part of language learning.' (pdf). Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences. 20:21-30.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2018. 'Prefortis Vowel Clipping and Lexical Decision of CC(C)V(C) Words by Japanese Learners of English.' (pdf). Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 22(2):44-55.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2018. 'Free cross-platform softwares for perception experiment.' (slides). Japan Society for Speech Sciences (21 Jan 2018).
• Nagai Katsumi. 2017. 'Questionnaire about English education.' Journal of Research in Higher Education. 14:107-114.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2016. 'New Curriculum and Questionnaire at Kagawa University.' Journal of Research in Higher Education. 13:83-89.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2015. 'TOEIC scores and Questionnaire about English Education.' Journal of Research in Higher Education. 12:129-134.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2014. 'Back formation of nonsense words increases speech sound errors by Japanese learners of English.' (pdf) Studies in phonetics and speech communication (Onsei Gengo VII). Kinki Society for Phonetics. 7:113-126.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2011. 'Effect of Repetition in pronunciation practices on Retrieval of Nonsense Words' (pdf). Cognitive Studies. Japanese Cognitive Science Society. 18: 320-328.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2010. 'TOEIC and English classes at Kagawa University (Japanese)' Journal of higher education and research, Kagawa University. 8:103-107.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2009. 'Effect of pronunciation practices on the acquisition of artificial languages' (pdf). Studies in phonetics and speech communication (Onsei Gengo VI). Kinki Society for Phonetics. 6:225-233.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2008. 'Data analysis of TOEIC test at Kagawa University: 2007-2008 (Japanese)' Journal of higher education and research, Kagawa University. 5:21-28.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2007. 'Differences of pronunciation practices: A study of "Repeat with me" and "Repeat after me". (pdf) Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 11:79-93.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2007. 'Mouthing vowels interferes with language rhythm but writing circles does not: evidence from dual-task experiments'. (pdf) Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences. 8:1-18.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2006. 'Data analysis of TOEIC test at Kagawa University: 2005-2006 (Japanese)' Journal of higher education and research, Kagawa University. 4:40-52.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2005. 'Effect of Time Order Error on perception of Japanese geminate consonants.' (pdf) Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 9:85-92.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2004. 'Application of Conjoint analysis to a need analysis.' Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences. 5:37-44.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2004. 'Desirable working knowledge of English at a Japanese national college of technology.' Journal of Education in the College of Technology. 27:311-316.
• Nagai Katsumi (Ikuo Koike et al.). 2003. Dictionary of Applied Linguistics. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2002. 'Speech timing by Japanese learners of English. (Japanese)' Proceedings of the 16th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 71-76.
• Nagai Katsumi. 2002. 'Conjoint analysis of college students' desirable working knowledge of English' Bulletin of Tsuyama National College of Technology. 44:123-126.
• Ishigaki E., Saito A., and Nagai K. 1999. 'Teaching Pronunciation of Japanese by the Verbo-Tonal method. (Japanese)' Proceedings of the First Conference on Teaching Method of Pronunciation of Japanese. Kyoto: Doshisha Women's University.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1999. 'Reaction time measurement with multitasking operating systems (Japanese)'. Speech and Communication 3:86-87. Tokyo: Eicho-sha.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1998. 'Compensatory Lengthening by Learners of Japanese'. Japanese-Language Education around the Globe. (pdf) 8:87-97. Tokyo: The Japan Foundation.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1998. 'Mora timing by British Learners of Japanese.' (Allan James ed.) Newsounds97. 240-248. Klagenfurt: Klagenfurt University Press.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1998. 'Pitch Descending by British Learners of Japanese.' Bulletin of the Society for the Study of English Education. 33:71-80. Osaka: Society of English Education.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1997. 'A concept of 'critical period' for language acquisition.' Bulletin of the Society for the Study of English Education. 32:39-56. Osaka: Society of English Education.
• Nagai Katsumi. 1996. 'A Study of Rhythm Perception Model'. (pdf (erratum: p.194 Table 1, 1/4=50 ? -> 1/4=50 Analytic)). Language and Culture. 5:189-201. Osaka: Osaka University.