Sakamoto Mitsuyo

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies, Sophia University

Degree: Bachelor of Arts(University of Toronto)
文学士(トロント大学)
Master of Education(University of Toronto)
修士（教育学）(トロント大学大学院)
Bachelor of Education(University of Toronto)
学士（教育学）(トロント大学)
Doctor of Philosophy(University of Toronto)
博士（教育学）(トロント大学大学院)

Researcher number: 30439335
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901085081594019
researchmap Member ID: 5000105675

Language acquisition, maintenance and attrition.
Second and third language acquisition (specifically, L1 role in SLA and L1 & L2 roles in TLA).
Foreign language pedagogy.
Sociocultural theory and SLA.
Qualitative research.
Multiculturalism and multicultural education (specifically, minority groups in Japan, with focus on Chinese and Brazilians).

(Subject of research)
Bilingualism and bilingual education
Foreign language pedagogy
Language loss and maintenance
Language transfer
Minority and Multicultural education
Qualitative research
Second and third language

(Proposed theme of joint or funded research)
Heritage language education, bilingualism, translanguaging, sociocultural theory, critical applied linguistics

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education /

Research History

Dec, 2017 - Dec, 2017

Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2012

Associate Professor, Sophia University
Aug, 2007 - Sep, 2007

Visiting Scholar, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Jul, 2001 - Jun, 2004

Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario

Education

Sep, 1995 - Nov, 2000

Education, Graduate School, Division of Education, University of Toronto
Sep, 1994 - Jun, 1995

Education, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto
Sep, 1991 - Jun, 1994

Education, Graduate School, Division of Education, University of Toronto
Sep, 1986 - Jun, 1990

Arts & Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science (Humanities), University of Toronto

Papers

‘Native speakers aren’t perfect’: Japanese English learners’ identity transformation as English users

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Gavin Furukawa

System, 110 102921-102921, Nov, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
The missing C: addressing criticality in CLIL

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(7) 2422-2434, Jul 15, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
(Re)imagining oneself as an English user: Identity formation of Japanese English learners

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Gavin Furukawa

Asian Englishes, 25(3) 407-420, Feb, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Forming a personal multicultural ideology: The case of a Japanese college student

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Mitsunori Takakuwa

Journal of Belonging, Identity and Diversity, 6(1) 77-96, Jan 2, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
トランスランゲージングの遂行性: 国際的なトークショーのディスコース分析を通して

猿橋順子, 坂本光代

青山国際政経論集, 105, Mar, 2021
Applying translanguaging concepts in language education in Japan: A discussion on perspectives behind recent case studies

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Junko Saruhashi

Sophia Linguistica, 69, Dec, 2020 Lead author
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Denver, USA, March 2020

Corey Fegan, Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Language Teaching, 53(4) 524-528, Oct 1, 2020
Addressing Translanguaging in CLIL: A Japanese Ethnographic Study

COREY FEGAN, Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Language Teaching, 53(4) 524-528, Aug, 2020 InvitedLast author
Exploring concepts in Translanguaging: An alternative view

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Junko Saruhashi

Sophia Linguistica, 67 59-68, Dec 31, 2018 Lead author
How effective is interactive learning?: Investigating Japanese university students' language patterns in a collaborative writing task

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO

IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 3(2) 115-139, Jan 19, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Challenging hegemonic discourse: Oral proficiency=English proficiency?

Sakamoto Mitsuyo

From applied linguistics to English teaching: The past, present and future of the graduate TESOL program at Sophia University, 211-232, Jun 30, 2017
What is Superdiversity?

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Emiko Yukawa

Mother tongue, Heritage language, Bilingual education (MHB) Studies, 13 62-69, Mar 31, 2017 Invited
Ethnolinguistic vitality among Japanese-Brazilians: challenges and possibilities

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Leiko Matsubara Morales

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 19(1) 51-73, Jan 2, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Towards internationalization of graduate education: Nurturing graduate students via mentorship

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Kensaku Yoshida, Yoshinori Watanabe, Shinichi Izumi, Lisa Fairbrother

May 1, 2015
Raising Bilinguals in Brazil: Case Studies of Japanese and Nikkei in Brazil

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Matsubara Leiko Morales

Sophia Linguistica, 62(62) 45-67, Dec 31, 2014
Mentorship in a Japanese graduate school: learning through apprenticeship

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Lumi Tamanyu

International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 3(1) 32-50, Feb 25, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Review of Yiakoumetti (2012) "Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education"

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development, 34(5) 503-506, Oct, 2013
Moving towards effective English language teaching in Japan: issues and challenges

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 33(4) 409-420, Mar, 2012 Peer-reviewedInvited
北米式TESOLを通して日本の若手研究社を育成する：可能性と課題

坂本光代, 吉田研作, 渡部良典, 和泉伸一

科学技術研究基盤研究（C）研究報告書, Mar 1, 2011
Living as a Chinese in Japan: Exploring the factors for ethnolinguistic vitality

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Ayako Hiasa, Junichi Hiroma, Sungheh Hwang, Daiki Ito, Natsumi Ikemoto, Asuka Kubo, Risa Murase, Kana Nakada, Sojiro Shiba …

46-68, Mar, 2011

Misc.

海外新刊書紹介：Language assemblages

坂本光代

英語教育, 73(12), Feb, 2025 InvitedLead author
海外新刊書紹介：On bilinguals and bilingualism

坂本光代

英語教育, 73(5), Aug, 2024 InvitedCorresponding author
海外新刊書紹介：The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights

坂本光代

英語教育, 72(12) 77-77, Feb, 2024 InvitedCorresponding author
海外新刊書紹介：Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts

坂本光代

英語教育, 72(5) 79-79, Aug, 2023 InvitedCorresponding author
『多様性を再考する』図書紹介２

坂本光代

第59回日本比較教育学会ブックセッション, Jun 18, 2023 InvitedCorresponding author
『多様性を再考する』読書会

2022年度第５回異文化間教育学会「著者と語ろうの会」, Mar 25, 2023 InvitedCorresponding author
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人種言語的・ポストヒューマニズム的視座から英語教育を考える

坂本光代

英語教育, 72(11) 44-45, 2023 InvitedCorresponding author
書評『越境者との共存にむけて』

『英語教育』, 71(4) 73-73, Jul, 2022 Invited
Review of "Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia" (2017)

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

newbooks.asia (https://newbooks.asia/review/japanese-soft-power), Oct 28, 2019
Multicultural Children and Pedagogy

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

279 2-4, Mar, 2019 Invited
言語教育研究の最前線：海外研究者インタビュー[1] ニナ・スパダ

坂本光代

英語教育, 63(1) 48-49, Apr, 2014 Invited
Harnessing linguistic variation to improve education

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, 34(5) 503-506, Aug, 2013

Books and Other Publications

Mammadova, T. (Ed.) (2024). Academic Mobility through the Lens of Language and Identity, Global Pandemics, and Distance Internationalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Gavin Furukawa, Mitsuyo Sakamoto (Role: Contributor, ‘Not just English’: Identity and liminality among Japanese bilingual returnees)

Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Nov 16, 2023 (ISBN: 9781032431796) Peer-reviewed
Transcending and Creating / Language and Culture - To Realize the Diversity in Front of Us

Makiko Matsuda, Seiichi Nakai, Mitsuyo Sakamoto (Role: Joint editor)

Kurosio, Oct, 2022
Rethinking diversity: Multicultural education for the majority

Mitsuyo Sakamoto (Role: Editor)

Dec, 2021
Heritage language education connecting generations: From the Japanese perspective

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint editor)

Kuroshio, 2019
From Applied Linguistics to English Teaching: The Past, Present and Future of the Graduate TESOL Programme at Sophia University

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Editor)

Sophia University Press, May, 2017
Ensino de lingua japonesa na era do plurilinguismo e pluriculturalismo "Superdiversity among Nikkei Brazilian communities: Newcomer/Oldcomers' Japanese cultural and linguistic maintenance"

(Role: Contributor, p. 163-181)

Bonjinsha, Oct 10, 2016 (ISBN: 9784893589125)
Polestar English Communication 3

Jan, 2015
宮崎幸江（編）『日本に住む多文化の子どもと教育：ことばと文化のはざまで生きる』第１部第1章「文化間移動と子どもの言語発達」

坂本光代

上智大学出版, Jan 6, 2014 (ISBN: 9784324097236)
宮崎幸江（編）『日本に住む多文化の子どもと教育：ことばと文化のはざまで生きる』第１部第２章「日本に住む多文化家庭のバイリンガリズム」

坂本光代 (Role: Joint author)

上智大学出版, Jan 6, 2014 (ISBN: 9784324097236)
Culturally diverse children and education in Japan : between languages and cultures

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint author, 3-13 . 17-46 . 149-164)

Sophia University Press, Jan 6, 2014 (ISBN: 9784324097236)
Polestar English Communication 2

Jan, 2014
Polestar English Communication 1

Jan, 2013
『国際移動と教育 : 東アジアと欧米諸国の国際移民をめぐる現状と課題』「カナダにおける外国籍児童生徒の就学への対応 : 在トロント日系新移住者を事例として」

坂本光代 (Role: Joint author, 302-318)

明石書店, Jan 15, 2011 (ISBN: 9784750333199)
Basic progressive English dictionary

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint author)

Shogakukan, Oct 15, 2010 (ISBN: 9784095106045)
Research in foreign studies : today and a look to tomorrow

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint author, 189-203)

Sophia University Press, Mar 31, 2010 (ISBN: 9784324088906)
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism v. 12, Special Issue: Overcoming micro (school-based) and macro (societal) level constraints in the development of bilingualism and multilingualism

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint author)

Taylor & Francis Routledge, May, 2009
『日常英会話。ほんとに使える表現500 : 24シーンのミニドラマで口からすらすら』

坂本光代 (Role: Joint author)

コスモピア, Nov 5, 2008 (ISBN: 9784902091632)
『Heritage language development : focus on East Asian immigrants』 (Studies in bilingualism, v. 32)「Balancing L1 maintenance and L2 learning: Experiential narratives of Japanese immigrant families in Canada」

Sakamoto Mitsuyo (Role: Joint author)

J. Benjamins, Dec, 2006 (ISBN: 9027241430)
『Official languages education in diverse Canada : implications for Japan from experiences of an advanced "internationalized" country』

Sakamoto Mitsuyo

Toshindo, Aug 31, 2006 (ISBN: 4887136854)
『Education in Canada at the dawn of the 21st century』

Sakamoto Mitsuyo

Toshindo, Sep 20, 2003 (ISBN: 4887135157)

Presentations

Thinking together: Language & school education

Keijiro Makino, Shinji Sato, Noriko Iwasaki, Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Yukiko Okuno

International Workshop on Network for Translingual Japanese (IWNTJ), Feb 9, 2025 Invited
Challenging hegemonic discourse via COIL: A Japan-US initiative

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Yuriko Miyamoto Caltabiano

AILA 2024, Aug 15, 2024
Japanese fathers raising bilingual children in Australia: Paternal perspectives on Japanese language use at home

Miyako Matsui, Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Sociolinguistics Symposium 25 (SS25), Jun 26, 2024
「モノリンガル」と「バイリンガル」の間（はざま）で生きる：継承語話者の葛藤

坂本光代

移民の継承語とエスニックアイデンティティに関する社会言語学的研究会, Feb 26, 2024 Invited
"CLD-online Sempai's Table": Life histories of those who grew up in multicultural/multilingual environment

Niko Catharine Watanabe Schultz, Kaori Matsuzaki, Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Noriko Iwasaki, Makiko Matsuda

JSAA/ICNTJ, Sep 2, 2023
Bilingualism and Qualitative Research

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Linguistics Lecture, Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University, Jun 30, 2023 Invited
Richness and Challenges in Bilingualism: A Critical Perspective

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Bilingualism as a First Language Study Group, May 27, 2023 Invited
Possibilities and challenges afforded by COIL in English language teaching and learning

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

JALT PanSIG 2023, May 13, 2023 Invited
In pursuit of lifelong enrichment: Challenges in raising bilingual children

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Australian Network for Japanese as a Community Language/Japan foundation Sydney Seminar, Feb 25, 2023 Invited
Revisiting linguistic interdependence hypothesis: Exploring via narratives of fourth-generation Japanese-Brazilian bilinguals

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Visiting Speaker Presentation, Western University, Sep 16, 2022 Invited
Conceptualizing and understanding assistant language teachers (ALT) in Japan: Discrepancies among government policy documents

Ayako Hiasa, Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Language Policy and Planning Conference 2022, Aug 27, 2022
望まれる言語教育と教育政策

坂本光代, 杉村美紀

マジョリティに向けた多様化社会の教育シンポジウム, Dec 18, 2021 Invited
Defying decontextualization, depoliticization and colonialism in plurilingual Brazil: Narratives of fourth-generation Nikkei Brazilians

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO

AILA 2021, Aug 20, 2021 Invited
Challenging English imperialism and promoting multiculturalism in Japan

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO, Mitsunori Takakuwa

SS23, Jun 7, 2021
How does academic English writing progress? Tracing the developmental pattern made by a Japanese college student

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS3)(Cancelled), Aug, 2020, ICS3
Heightening intercultural awareness: Identity formation process of a Japanese college student

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Mitsunori Takakuwa

Language Policy & Planning 2020 (LPP2020)(Cancelled), Aug, 2020, Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Planning and Policy
Challenging English imperialism and promoting multiculturalism in Japan

Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Mitsunori Takakuwa

Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (SS23)(Conference cancelled), Jun 18, 2020, SS23
Addressing Translanguaging in CLIL: A Japanese Ethnographic Study

Corey Fegan, Mitsuyo Sakamoto

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)(Conference cancelled), Mar 29, 2020, AAAL
Language Choice by Heritage Language User in Family,at School & in the Community

Mitsuyo Sakamoto

Issues and Trends in Heritage Language Education & Research for Bilinguals, Oct 5, 2019, SOLIFIC, Sophia University Invited
Monolingualism to translanguaging and beyond: Exploring perspectival evolution of what it means to know languages

SAKAMOTO MITSUYO

Simpósio Internacional sobre Ensino-aprendizagem de Língua Japonesa como Língua de Herança, Identidade e Bilinguismo (EJHIB2019), Sep 4, 2019, University of Sao Paulo, Japan Foundation Sao Paulo Invited

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

International collaborative research on heritage language network contributing to socio-mobile infrastructure

Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2029

Makiko Matsuda
異言語環境下の子供達にどう学ばせるか：教科学習言語の『学びのデザイン』の国際比較

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2026

所澤潤
Partnering to support educators' personal transformation, expand their professional competences & co-create comparative/international knowledge on the impact of pluralistic/pluricultural approaches to L2/FL teaching from East to West

SSHRC, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2024 - 2025

Shelley K. Taylor
海外日本語継承語(JHL)コーパスの開発と日本語・日本語教育研究への応用

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2024

松田真希子
Multicultural Education for the Majority: Multiple perspectives (Project number: 16K04622)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2020

Mitsuyo Sakamoto
Towards the internationalization of graduate education: Nurturing graduate students through mentorship (Grant number: 23520702)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2016

Mitsuyo Sakamoto
Non-Japanese residents in Hadano and vicinity: Educational environments for immigrant children and its effects on Japanese students

Sophia Junior College, 2009 - 2012

Sachie Miyazaki
Nurturing young Japanese researchers through North American model of TESOL program: Possibilities and challenges(Grant No: 19520506)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2010

Mitsuyo Sakamoto
Japanese as heritage language in Brazil: Japanese language teachers' perspectives

2007 - 2010

Mitsuyo Sakamoto
Mutlicultural and multilingual education in schools for foreigners in Japan: Focus on Chinese schools

2007 - 2009

Miki Sugimoto
Japanese Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology Funding for private universities for academic research promotion Open Research Centre Research Project4 "Foreign Language and Media Studies: Learning Process Model and Its Applications"

2007 - 2009

Sachiko Tanaka
An Investigation on Early English Language Education in Japan

2006 - 2009

Kensaku Yoshida
Exploring Language and identity: Nature of Code-switching among Japanese Students

2006 - 2007

Jim McKinley

Academic Activities

Member of the Committee for International Scientific Research Grants, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Review, evaluation

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2018 - 2020

Social Activities

Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Lecturer

Sophia University, Sophia University Open Campus, Aug 1, 2023 - Aug 1, 2023
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Other

In charge of a lecture at Sophia University Junior College Division., Oct 26, 2019 - Oct 26, 2019
Bilingual Education and Multiculturalism Sophia Festival

Other

Nov 3, 2018 - Nov 3, 2018
Sophia University Lunch Time Gathering

Other

Designing context-embedded & cognitively demanding instruction, Oct 23, 2018 - Oct 23, 2018
Judge, H.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy. All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest. Japan National Student Association (JNSA) Fund

Other

Nov, 2013 - Nov, 2017

Media Coverage

What does it mean to be bilingual: A professor who grew up with three languages poses a question

SBS, SBS On Demand, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/japanese/en/podcast-episode/what-does-it-mean-to-be-bilingual-a-professor-who-grew-up-with-three-languages-poses-a-question/buasm1072, Mar 16, 2023 TV or radio program

Other

(Teaching achievements)Thesis writing/APA workshop

May, 2008 - May, 2008

As part of GTRA, a workshop on thesis writing and APA was hosted. The presentation was given by a GTR and a professor provided guidance.
(Teaching achievements)Visitng Professorship, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Sao Paulo

Aug, 2007 - Sep, 2007

Offering a course called, "Bilingualism and Bilingual Education" to graduate students at University of Sao Paulo.
(Licenses)Ontario Teaching License (Intermediate/Junior)