Hiromasa Kotera

Universität Potsdam · Department Linguistik

Young infants can discriminate most non-native sounds, but the discrimination ability decreases within the first year of life; this is thought to be due to perceptual attunement to the native language. However, most studies tested infants’ perception crosssectionally, without examining within-group change. To this end, the current study tested Germ...

While the Indonesian higher education has been growing rapidly, poor student mental health including a high level of mental health shame, is a cause for concern in Indonesia. This study aimed to evaluate their mental health, shame and self- compassion. 156 participants completed self-report measures regarding mental health problems (depression, anx...

Workplace mental health is a cause for concern in many countries. Globally, 78% of workforce experienced that their mental health was impaired in 2020. In Japan, more than a half of employ-ees are mentally distressed. Previously research has identified that self-compassion (i.e., being kind and understanding towards oneself) and work motivation wer...

While the demand for online education and the diversity of online students have been increasing worldwide, how online students motivate themselves to continuously engage in learning remains to be appraised. Research in the face-to-face contexts reports that academic motivation is central for student success and wellbeing, and the type of motivation...

A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/). /L+/ was a...