Robert Shoichi Murphy

• PhD Applied Linguistics (Nottingham), MA TESOL (Birmingham UK)
• Professor (Associate) at The University of Kitakyushu

A paper on DMC research conducted in the Japanese context. Theoretical and practical avenues are explored.

This chapter will discuss EFL syllabus/curriculum design and development. It will cover five major designs from a historical perspective and discuss their pedagogical significance. Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 discuss the purposes, functions, and reasons behind syllabus/curriculum design while section 6 provides a critical review of these five major Syl...

2008 (WD/08/03) Choose an authentic text (in English) which could be used in a language classroom to raise students awareness of genre conventions. Present a genre analysis of the text. Discuss the potential applications of genre analysis to the teaching of reading and writing in your teaching/learning context. [This is a master’s degree assignmen...

A pilot study into the relationship between sleep patterns and academic performance of Japanese university students.

University of Kitakyushu, Kiban Kyoiku Center Kiyo Journal (Center for Fundamental Education Bulletin). ISSN 1883-6739

University of Kitakyushu, Kiban Kyoiku Center Kiyo Journal (Center for Fundamental Education Bulletin). ISSN 1883-6739

University of Kitakyushu, Kiban Kyoiku Center Kiyo Journal (Center for Fundamental Education Bulletin). ISSN 1883-6739

University of Kitakyushu, Kiban Kyoiku Center Kiyo Journal (Center for Fundamental Education Bulletin). ISSN 1883-6739 This paper has explored: a) creativity as a need, b) VM frontal cortex lesions and what happens without emotion, c) Somatic Marker Theory, d) nurturing creativity in different environments, e) the importance of bias in decision-ma...

Practical examples of how a brilliant elementary school teacher taught self-efficacy to his students via multi-media usage, differentiated instruction, autonomous management, and solo-to-group learning (and much more) in the early 1980s.

This thesis documents the dynamically changing efficacy of an EFL coursebook series that has been evolving in various ways since 2008, via action research methodology. The Optimal Levels EFL coursebook series was specifically written for the Japanese EFL context―but with the strong intent of raising students’ cognitive maturity along with their L2...

Tramadol has been used as an analgesic for several decades. µ-Opioid receptors (µORs) are the major receptors that mediate the analgesic effects of opioids. Although µORs have been thought to be one of the sites of action of tramadol, there has been no report that directly proves whether tramadol is an agonist of μOR or not. In this study, we exami...

During the assessments of the correlation of the diseases and the microbiota of various clinical specimens, unique 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences (less than 80% similarity to known bacterial type strains) were predominantly detected in a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) specimen from a patient with chronic lower respiratory tract infect...

An interview with Dr. Jean Berko Gleason (most famous for the Wug Test), Professor Emeritus, Boston University.

What is Psycholinguistics? How does it differ from Cognitive Linguistics? Why is this general area of linguistics in the limelight these days? Dr. Zoltan Dornyei is a professor at Nottingham University who is at the forefront of this research. He recently wrote a book titled, The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (Dornyei, 2009). In it, Dor...

Through use of word association as detailed in McCarthy (1990) this paper will explore pedagogic implications derived from the following three points in relation to the lexical development of Japanese learners of English: 1) the ability of word association tests to examine the mental links between words in learners' developing mental lexicon, 2) th...