八島智子
Yashima, T. (2016). A qualitative study of learning through participation in international volunteering. Journal of Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kasnai University, 15, 33-50.
Yashima, T., MacIntyre, P. & Ikeda, M. (2016).Situated willingness to communicate in an L2: Interplay of individual characteristics and context. Language Teaching Research. 1-23. DOI: 10.1177/1362168816657851
Denies, K., Yashima, T., & Janssen, R. (2015). Classroom versus societal willingness to communicate: Investigating French as a second language in Flanders. The Modern Language Journal, 99, 718-739
Yashima, T. & Arano, K. (2014). Understanding EFL learners’ motivational dynamics: A three-level model from a dynamic systems and sociocultural perspectiveInDörnyei, Z., MacIntyre, P.
T., Da Silva, D., & Fellner, T. (Eds.). Language learning motivation in Japan. (Pp.35-53.) Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Yashima, T. (2013). Individuality, imagination and community in a globalizing world: An Asian EFL perspective. In Benson, P. and Cooker, L. (Eds.). The applied linguistic individual: Sociocultural approaches to autonomy, agency and identity. (Pp. 46-58.). London: Equinox.
Yashima, T. (2012). Willingness to communicate: Momentary volition that results in L2 behaviour In Mercer, S., Ryan, S., & Williams, M. (Eds).
神戸市外国語大学で文学修士を修め、2002年に学位論文「滞米日本人高校生の社会文化的適応 : 第二言語コミュニケーション行動の視点から」で、岡山大学より博士(文化科学)の学位を取得。
研究においては、実証的・解釈的・批判的研究方法を融合する弁証法的(dialectic)アプローチを取り、質的・量的な研究を組み合わせた手法で、多くの論文等を執筆し、海外での評価も高い。