Masaru Yamamoto

(he/him) [məˈsɑːru ˌjæməˈmoʊtoʊ]

I am an Applied Linguist and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). My research interests include multilingual socialization, language learner identity and agency, (dys)investment, and (non-)participation in postsecondary settings, integrating ethnographic case study and other methodological approaches, such as multimodal interaction analysis and social network analysis.

I have also worked in various professional activities, including accessible knowledge mobilization, digital materials development, and community-building initiatives. I was also part of the UBC Conference Organizing Team for the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in 2021 (online; see AAALetter–June 2020 Issue).

My scholarly work has appeared in various journals and edited volumes, such as Applied Linguistics, TESL Canada Journal, Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (2nd Ed.) (Atkinson & Taylor, in press), The Oxford Handbook of Language Socialization (Smith & Berman, in press), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse (Prior & Paltridge, 2024), and BC TEAL Journal, among others both in English and Japanese. He is a recipient of the AAAL Graduate Student Award in 2022.

My ongoing doctoral dissertation project explores the sociorelational complexities of multilingual socialization experienced by a cohort of undergraduate students from a Japanese university on a study-abroad program at a Canadian university.