NAKAO KAORI
| Department of Childhood Education | Associate Professor |
Papers
- Short and long(er)-term returns of self-efficacy’s latent growth: class attendance and longitudinal impact on knowledge, proximal and distal interest
Fryer, L. K.; Shum, A.; Bovee, H. N.; Nakao, K.; Ozono, S.
Educational Psychology, 44(5), 530-550, May 2024, Reviewed - Developing phoneme-grapheme recognition in English as a foreign language: A longitudinal study at Japanese primary school.
Nakao, K; Oga-Baldwin, W. L; Fryer, L. K
International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 16(3), 337-347, Mar. 2024, Reviewed - Transitioning from Paper to Touch interface: Phoneme-Grapheme Recognition Testing and Gamification in Primary school classrooms.
Liang, L; Oga-Baldwin, W. L; Nakao, K; Shum. A; Fryer, L. K
2024, Reviewed - Assessing Class Participation in Physical and Virtual Spaces: Current Approaches and Issues
Simon, P. D; Fryer, L. K; Nakao, K
Frontiers in Education, Jan. 2024, Reviewed - Motivation to Learn in Open, Distance, and Digital Education
Fryer, L. K; Shum, A; Nakao, K
Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, Jan. 2023, Reviewed, Invited - Phonemic awareness as fundamental listening skill: A cross-sectional, cohort study of elementary foreign language learners.
Nakao, K., Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q., & Fryer, L. K.
The Journal of Asia TEFL, 19(2), 609-618, 2022, Reviewed - Self-efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes.
Fryer, L. K., Bovee, H. N. & Nakao, K.
British Journal of Educational Psychology., 2021, Reviewed - The Future of Survey Self-report: An experiment contrasting Likert, VAS, Slide, and Swipe touch interfaces.
Fryer, L. K. & Nakao, K.
Frontline Learning Research, 8(3), 10-25, 2020, Reviewed - Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience.
Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A.
Learning and Individual Differences, 80, 1-25, 2020, Reviewed - Expanding Japanese Elementary School English Education: Native and Nonnative Speaking Team-Teachers’ Perspectives on Team-Teaching Quality.
Nakao, K., Oga-Baldwin, W.L., & Fryer, K. L.
早稲田大学大学院教育学研究科紀要, 29, 17-32, 2019 - Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence.
Fryer, L. K., Nakao, K. & Thompson, A.
Computers in Human Behaviour, 93, 279-289, 2019, Reviewed
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- Phoneme-Grapheme Recognition Testing and Gamification in Primary school classrooms
SIG 6 & 7 EARLI: Tübingen, Germany, Aug. 2024 - A Psychological Platform For GenAI And Human Co- Piloting In Education.
Fryer, L. K. & Nakao, K.
SIG 6 & 7 EARLI: Tübingen, Germany, Aug. 2024 - Motivations to Learn Across Three Middle School Subjects
Fryer, L. K; Nakao, K; Oga-Baldwin, Quint
Conference ICM 2024: Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 2024 - 小学生の音素書記素認識の発達的変化ー個別最適な学びへの支援・指導を目指してー
第24回小学校英語教育学会 中国・山口大会, Jul. 2024 - Building Blocks: An adaptive online platform for foreign language literacy development
EARLI Conference 2023, Aug. 2023 - ICT教材を活用した音韻認識指導のあり方ー教材開発とアンケート調査結果からー
第23回小学校英語教育学会（JES）近畿・京都大会, Jul. 2023 - Phonemic Awareness Learning Platform Student Experience
第49回全国語学教育学会年次国際大会, Nov. 2023 - Supporting Elementary School Students’ Phonemic Awareness Development.
第48回全国語学教育学会年次国際大会, Nov. 2022, The Japan Association for Language teaching - Testing and supporting Japanese elementary school students' phonological awareness with a bespoke web application.
Nakao, K., Oga-Baldwin, W. L., Shum, A., and Fryer, L. K.
EARLI SIG 6 & 7 Conference 2022, Aug. 2022, The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) - Opening up the classroom to Bots as learning partners: Integrating ideas from educational psychology, technology and language learning.
Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Howarth, M., Gallacher, A.
World Education Research Association 2019: Focal Meeting in Tokyo, Aug. 2019 - Integrating Chatbots Into Language Classrooms: Longitudinal Relationships and Students' Perspectives.
SIG 6&7 "Instructional Design and Technology-enhanced Learning and Instruction": Technology for 21st century learning: Challenges, Solutions, & Future Directions”, Aug. 2018 - Elementary School Language Instruction Challenges.
第43回全国語学教育学会年次国際大会., Nov. 2017 - Investigating student interest in blending learning: Chatbot or human learning partner preferences?
Biennial European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction, Aug. 2017 - The English Language: Just Because It’s Important, Does It Mean It’s Useful?
Sherlock, Z. & Nakao, K.
International Conference on Motivation 2016., Aug. 2016
Research Themes
- Exploring elementary school students' developmental changes in phonemic awareness
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Seinan Gakuin University
Aug. 2019 - Mar. 2022 - Mobile Formative Testing for School Curricula.
Technology
Technology Platform Fund (PTF), University Research Council (URC), Hong Kong
2020 - 2022
