Kazunori Suzuki

Main subjects

Global Communication Research (Second Language Acquisition Theory), Japanese Language Education Research (Japanese Language Acquisition Research), Global Communication Seminar I, II, III, IV

Research Themes and Keywords

Acquisition and development of linguistic knowledge, language comprehension and production, noun modification structures, over-(under)generalization

Final academic background/degree

Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Environment and Society, Doctoral Program, Completed coursework / Master of Arts

licence · Qualification

High school teacher's license "Foreign language (English)", junior high school teacher's license "Foreign language (English)", school librarian teacher

Affiliated academic society

Japan Second Language Acquisition Association, Society of Linguistic Sciences, Japan Association of Japanese Language Education, Linguistic Society of Japan, Japanese Grammar Association, Second Language Acquisition Research Group, Japanese Language Education for Chinese Speakers Research Group, Japanese Language Teaching Methods Research Group, University Japanese Teacher Training Course Research Council

Major achievements

Suzuki, K. (2023) “Acceptability of English relative clauses containing repredicative pronouns: Observations based on data from second language learners.” Research of English Linguistics and English Education, Vol. 28, No. 42, pp. 101–120.
Suzuki, K. (2020) “Interpretation of free quantifiers in intransitive sentences in Japanese: from data on Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese,” Japanese Language Research for Chinese Speakers, no. 11, pp. 142–156.
Suzuki, K. and Hirakawa, M. (2019), “Interpretation of psychological adjectives by native Japanese speakers and native Spanish speakers: Is the lecturer bored or boring?” in Shirahata, T. and Suda, T. (eds.), Second Language Acquisition Research Monograph Series 3: Applicability of Language Acquisition Research: From Theory to Instruction and Neuroscience, pp. 1–29, Kuroshio Publishing.
Suzuki, K. and Yamashita, J. (2019). “Overproduction of ‘no’ in the nominative-genitive alternation phenomenon: An empirical Research of Korean learners of Japanese.” Research on the Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language, no. 22, pp. 62–76.
Suzuki, K., Shioda, K., Kikuchi, N., Maetsu, M., and Hirakawa, M. (2016). Cross-linguistic effects in L2 acquisition of causative constructions. In J. Scott and D. Waughtal (Eds.), BUCLD 40 Online Proceedings Supplement (pp. 1–10). Boston University Conference on Language Development.

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extracurricular activities

Steering Committee Member, Society of Linguistic Sciences (July 2023-)
Japanese Language Education for Chinese Speakers Research Member of the steering committee of the conference (from April 2022)
Chuo University Humanities Research Institute Visiting Research Member (since April 2021)

Social contribution activities

Lecturer at the "Tsukumo Time (Multicultural Coexistence)" event Chiba Prefectural Narutō High School (lecture theme: "Rethinking Foreign Language Learning") (May 15, 2024)