Ekaterina Tsoy

Assistant Professor

Global Education and Intercultural Advancement Center

General Education Building, 3rd Floor

Tel：＋81 97 554 7951　E-mail：e-tsoy@oita-u.ac.jp

• Dr. Ekaterina Tsoy received her M.A. (in Linguistics) and Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her doctoral thesis presented a contrastive study of Japanese and Russian linguistic behaviors in collaborative work settings.

Her recent research interests include the mechanisms of talk-in-interaction, cross-cultural communication in contact situations, and autonomous learning in second language acquisition.

• Japanese 1 (Reading)
• Japanese 2 (Grammar, Conversation, Integrated Activities)
• Intercultural Pragmatics

Functions of Russian verb-derived discourse markers slušaj and smotri from the perspective of information management and interpersonal regulation, Journal of Pragmatics, 193, 2022, pp. 105‒121.

The Learning Effects and Problems of Vlogging Tasks as Speaking Activities for Intermediate Japanese Language Learners, Journal of Global Education and Exchange (Hitotsubashi University, Center for Global Education and Exchange), 2, 2020, pp.81‒91.

A Study of Interpersonal Differences in Negotiating Suggestions in Japanese and Russian: A Contrastive Analysis of Task-Solving Conversations Among Three Participants, The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 21‒1, 2018, pp. 207‒224.

A study of politeness in Japanese tea ceremony conversation: An analysis of formal and informal linguistic behavior from the point of view of Discourse Politeness Theory, Journal for Japanese studies (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, International Center for Japanese Studies), 4, 2014, pp. 17‒37.