Rate My Professor Reiko Yoshida

Dr Reiko Yoshida is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese in the School of Humanities, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She was awarded her PhD in 2008, with her doctoral research examining corrective feedback and learners' private speech in Japanese language classes. Prior to her current role, she joined the University of South Australia in 2010, where she coordinated and taught Japanese courses from beginner to intermediate levels, including on-campus, external online, and in-country programs. She developed digital online teaching materials with audiovisual resources, assessment tasks, and classroom activities to enhance vocabulary, grammar, and conversational skills. Yoshida also facilitated communication between intermediate students and Japanese university students via online text-chat applications, emphasizing learner autonomy through scaffolding and independent problem-solving.

Her research focuses on psychological factors influencing Japanese language learning, including learners’ beliefs about foreign language learning, self-concepts as language learners, and emotions in both classroom and study-abroad contexts. Additional interests include language classroom interactions (face-to-face and online), teacher and learner perceptions, identities in language teaching and learning, academic identities in neoliberal universities, multilingualism, multiculturalism, and experiences of Asian academics in Australian universities. She is currently involved in projects on social networks and identities of assistant language teachers in Japan’s JET Programme. Key publications include the books Self-concept in Foreign Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Language Learners (Routledge, 2024) and Learners in Japanese Language Classrooms: Overt and Covert Participation (Continuum, 2009), as well as articles such as “Autoethnography of a Japanese academic in an Australian university: the development and changes of professional identity” (Higher Education, 2024), “Emotions of Japanese language learners in and out of class” (Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024), and “Learners' emotions in foreign language text chats with native speakers” (Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020). Awards include the 2019 Smolicz Award (AU$37,000) for “New Arrival Youth Speak: Learning in school and beyond” and New Colombo Plan Mobility Program Funding (2018, 2024). She serves as Section Editor for the Journal of Intercultural Communication (2023–ongoing) and editorial board member for Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (2026–ongoing) and The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning (2024–ongoing). In 2025, she presented keynotes at the Japanese Studies Association Conference and AFMLTA International Languages Conference. Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students, she has supervised theses at the University of South Australia.