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  1. Japanese learners understand "one book" easily — but does "books" reliably mean more than one?

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, February 2026, SAGE Publications

    Yu Tamura

  2. Factors influencing L2 learners’ use of the English dative construction: Insights from a learner corpus

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, February 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Yu Tamura

  3. Factors Influencing L2 Learners’ Use of the English Dative Construction: Insights from a Learner Corpus

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Yu Tamura

  4. Pitfalls of production data analysis for investigating L2 cognitive mechanism

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Yu Tamura

  5. Identifying ChatGPT-generated texts in EFL students’ writing: Through comparative analysis of linguistic fingerprints

    Article • Applied Corpus Linguistics, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Atsushi Mizumoto, Yu Tamura

  6. When Japanese learners read "cats," do they automatically know it means more than one?

    Article • Second language Research, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Yu Tamura

  7. Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, June 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Junya Fukuta, Yu Tamura

  8. Do Japanese learners of English treat "dogs" and "desks" differently when processing plurals?

    Article • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yu Tamura

  9. "There is a cat and a dog" — do English learners know this sounds natural, and why?

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, April 2022, De Gruyter

    Yu Tamura, Dr. Junya Fukuta

  10. Pitfalls of production data analysis for investigating L2 cognitive mechanism

    Article • Journal of Second Language Studies, March 2022, John Benjamins

    Yu Tamura, Dr. Junya Fukuta

  11. Examining the Validity of the LexTALE Test for Japanese College Students

    Article • The Journal of AsiaTEFL, June 2020, The Journal of Asia TEFL

    Yu Tamura, Dr Tatsuya Nakata

  12. Written languaging with indirect feedback in writing revision: is feedback always effective?

    Article • Language Awareness, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Junya Fukuta, Yu Tamura, Dr. Junya Fukuta

  13. Japanese EFL learners’ sentence processing of conceptual plurality: An analysis focusing on reciprocal verbs

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Yu Tamura, Dr. Junya Fukuta