By the way, I hadn’t shared this here, but as of April I’m now at Gakushuin University. It’s within walking distance of Ikebukuro in Tokyo, so if you’re in the area, feel free to get in touch!

For the past few weeks, while accompanying my daughter in hospital, I haven’t been able to get anything done, but I still have so many things I want to write…

Publishing a single-authored book in Japanese is tough enough for me, but writing a monograph in English is on another level. I was hoping to have a clear path by April, but that’s not looking likely at all.

This paper is not a debate-ending paper. It’s a paper designed to generate a new empirical programme.
I’m hoping it will spark many follow-up studies — and if you come up with any interesting ideas, feel free to reach out!

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I also reconceptualise L2 knowledge development not as a simple explicit–implicit back-and-forth, but as a multilayered system. The accepted version is available here (PDF):
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artificial grammar learning, statistical learning). This paper proposes a model to resolve that tension. To do so, I point out the limits of classifying knowledge purely on the basis of performance and instead shift the focus to learners’ mental states.

Current models of implicit/explicit knowledge can no longer account for the complex phenomena reported in the previous studies. In particular, work on consciousness in SLA has accumulated in ways that directly contradict findings from cognitive psychology (e.g.,

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New paper out in Second Language Research! I propose a new model of implicit and explicit knowledge in SLA. The accepted version is open access — thread below.

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Grateful for an amazing collaboration!

While my wife is away on a business trip to Shanghai, my daughter has come down with a cold, and I’m not feeling great either.

By the way, the cost of making a single paper Gold OA is about a year and a half of my personal research budget…

In research that pushes back against cognitive “universality” by emphasizing complexity and packing models with individual-difference factors, cultural variation in those factors is usually left unexamined…there’s no real sense of tension between universality and cultural specificity at all.

I suggest, however, that the divergence runs deeper: the two positions rest on distinct epistemological assumptions. The paper argues for the need to choose theoretical frameworks in light of one’s epistemological commitments and research aims. I hope it will be of interest.

I contrast SLA debates on implicit/explicit knowledge with the conscious/unconscious framework in cognitive psychology, arguing that disagreements are often attributed to issues of external validity because the two traditions rely on different measurement practices.

A new paper is out: Consciousness in Second Language Research: How Epistemological Stances Shape Experimental Design and Interpretation. Second Language 24
Brief details in the thread below.

📢New IRIS upload📢

Hanzawa, K., Suzuki, Y., Yanagisawa, A., & Fukuta, J. (2025). Coding data for scoping review. Analyses from “A scoping review of oral task repetition: Evolving concepts for speaking skills development.” IRIS Database, University of York, UK. doi.org/10.48316/NPD...

Negative entrenchment and statistical preemption in L2 acquisition: A scoping review with methodological directions Recent years have seen a growing number of empirical studies that examine negative entrenchment and statistical preemption as mechanisms of frequency-…

My new paper has been published from RMAL!

Fukuta, J. & Terai, M. Negative entrenchment and statistical preemption in L2 acquisition: A scoping review with methodological directions.

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All of them now has been accepted for publication from Second Lnguage Research, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition!

Four of my papers happened to get minor revision decisions back-to-back this month!

Neuroscience of language has a dilemma: how do we reconcile extensive patient and imaging evidence for **language-specific** processing with the fact that naturalistic language evokes extensive activity all over the brain? We propose a framework that accounts for both.

Hmm… looks like I won’t have any time for research until this semester ends...

Just opening a decision letter from a journal drains a whole day’s worth of energy.

The Present and Future of Parallel Architectures of Language and Cognition Language as a cognitive capacity involves multiple components, from input and output modalities to formal structures and layers of meaning. This Topic explores the hypothesis that these components fu...

What an interesting feature!

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Applied linguistics has long been a field where diverse theoretical perspectives coexist, giving rise to serious and conflicting debates. But lately criticism tends to be dismissed as mere negativity rather than seen as a sign of intellectual commitment. That’s something I should consciously resist.

The paper I’m currently writing is not so much about explaining second language phenomena per se, but rather using those phenomena to address broader questions in cognitive science. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.

I’ve been asking people to take on some heavy tasks, but everyone has responded with such swift and kind acceptance. It really makes me feel how much I’m living surrounded by the kindness of others…

Ever since coming back from my sabbatical leave, my research has completely stalled. A lot of things are stuck on my end…

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025 Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...

As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out!
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One of my former students published her undergraduate thesis in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience last year, and I recently discovered that her paper has become the second most-read article published in the journal during the past year😆