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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tomoko Yaginuma

Citation names

  • Yaginuma, Tomoko

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C71B-913F-0D06
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0419-1273

Addresses

  • Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Languages
  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Japanese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09/24
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Estudos Culturais (Doutoramento)
Major in Cultural Studies
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Imagining Japan from Far-West: Social Representations of Japan and the Japanese among Portuguese students" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2000/09/01 - 2021/08/31
Concluded
 MSc in Computer Science (Master)
University of Bath, United Kingdom
1999/09/01 - 2000/08/31
Concluded
 MA in Film Studies (Master)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
1990/04/01 - 1994/03/31
Concluded
 BA in Sociology (Bachelor)
Chiba Daigaku, Japan
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/11/15 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/11/16 - 2024/11/14 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2022/11/15 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2026/04/01 - 2029/03/31 Multimodal Interaction in Virtual Reality Environments for Language Learning
26K04004
Researcher
Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Ongoing
2022/08/01 - 2026/03/31 Empirical studies on VR communication space in remote cross-cultural discussions
22K00660
Researcher
Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Yaginuma, Tomoko. "The images of the Japanese held by Japanese-learning students in Portugal". In Relações entre a península Ibérica e o Japão: Dos déc. XVI aos dias de hoje, 55-80. Portugal: Húmus, 2019.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Yaginuma, Tomoko; Fukagawa, Miho. "What intercultural communication activities in virtual reality bring to the Japanese language learners?". Paper presented in The 28th Japanese Language Symposium in Europe and the 27th BATJ Annual Conference, Keele, 2025.
    Published
  2. Fukagawa, Miho; Kawamoto, Kenji; Yaginuma, Tomoko; Higashi, Akitaka. "Effectiveness of discussion technologies for cross-cultural understanding - Video Conferencing and Virtual Reality-". Paper presented in The 22nd International Conference for Media in Education, Tokyo, 2024.
    Published
  3. Yaginuma, Tomoko. "Awareness toward diversity of Japanese culture: the images about Japan and Japanese people held by JFL students as a starting point". Paper presented in The 5th Symposium of Association of Japanese Professors in Spain, Alicante, 2019.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/08/27 Exploring the effectiveness of virtual reality communication for language learning: A multimodal analysis of Japanese learner–native speaker interactions The 11th CASTEL/J International Conference
British Association for Teaching Japanese (BATJ) (Keele, United Kingdom)