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46
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3573
National Ranking
210

Overview

Ryuko Kubota is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the domains of social sciences and arts and humanities, with a focused contribution to linguistics and language studies.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics including multilingual education and policy, second language learning and teaching, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, global education and multiculturalism, critical race theory in education, language, discourse and communication strategies, and linguistic variation and morphology.

Ryuko Kubota has published articles in several academic journals, notably:

  • "Your English is so good": Linguistic experiences of racialized students and instructors of a Canadian university, 2021, Ethnicities
  • Critical antiracist pedagogy in ELT, 2021, ELT Journal
  • Decolonizing second language writing: Possibilities and challenges, 2022, Journal of Second Language Writing

Their research contributions also include coauthored works with several frequent collaborators such as Alastair Pennycook, Brian Morgan, Suhanthie Motha, Ryosuke Aoyama, and Takeshi Kajigaya.

Publication venues where they have been frequently featured are:

  • Journal of Second Language Writing
  • TESOL Quarterly
  • Language Culture and Curriculum
  • The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
  • Language Teaching

Main fields of study reflected through their publications include social sciences and arts and humanities, supported by subfields in linguistics and language, literature and literary theory, education, and sociology and political science.

Some key topics that are emphasized across their research are:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Best Publications

  • Japanese Culture Constructed by Discourses: Implications for Applied Linguistics Research and ELT

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Race And TESOL: Introduction to Concepts and Theories

    Ryuko Kubota;Angel Lin

  • The Multi/Plural Turn, Postcolonial Theory, and Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Complicities and Implications for Applied Linguistics

    Ryuko Kubota

  • The impact of globalization on language teaching in Japan

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Ideologies of English in Japan

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Toward critical contrastive rhetoric

    Ryuko Kubota;Al Lehner

  • Questioning linguistic instrumentalism: English, neoliberalism, and language tests in Japan

    Ryuko Kubota

  • An investigation of L1–L2 transfer in writing among Japanese university students: Implications for contrastive rhetoric

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Confronting Epistemological Racism, Decolonizing Scholarly Knowledge: Race and Gender in Applied Linguistics

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Race, culture, and identities in second language education : exploring critically engaged practice

    Ryuko Kubota;Angel M.Y. Lin

  • Learning a foreign language as leisure and consumption: enjoyment, desire, and the business of eikaiwa

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Discursive Construction of the Images of U.S. Classrooms.

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Teaching world Englishes to native speakers of English in the USA

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning: Critical multiculturalism and second language education

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  • The Author Responds: (Un)Raveling Racism in a Nice Field Like TESOL

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Globalization and Language Learning in Rural Japan: The Role of English in the Local Linguistic Ecology.

    Ryuko Kubota;Sandra Mckay

  • A Reevaluation of the Uniqueness of Japanese Written Discourse: Implications for Contrastive Rhetoric

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Re-Examining and Re-Envisioning Criticality in Language Studies: Theories and Praxis

    Ryuko Kubota;Elizabeth R. Miller

  • New Approaches to Gender, Class, and Race in Second Language Writing.

    Ryuko Kubota

  • ‘Language is only a tool’: Japanese expatriates working in China and implications for language teaching

    Ryuko Kubota

  • Women Faculty of Color in TESOL: Theorizing Our Lived Experiences

    Angel Lin;Rachel Grant;Ryuko Kubota;Suhanthie Motha

Frequent Co-Authors

Angel M. Y. Lin
Angel M. Y. Lin Simon Fraser University

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