Affiliation
Institute for Promotion of Higher Education
BIRDSELL BRIAN JON
Degree
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Doctor of Philosophy
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Master of Arts
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Bachelor of Arts
Professional Memberships
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The Japanese Psychological Association
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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
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Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)
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The Japan Association For Language Teaching (JALT)
Papers
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Embodied Learning: A GEM Approach to Couple the Body with Language
Brian J. Birdsell
Pan SIG Journal 9 - 15 2024.5
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Curriculum Reform and Evaluation of First-year Liberal Arts English Courses
Brian J Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 8 ) 27 - 35 2024.3
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CLIL in Japan: The Implementation, Challenges, and Design of a Psychology CLIL Course
Brian J Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 8 ) 13 - 25 2024.3
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Review of Higher-Grade Courses in a Liberal Arts English Curriculum: A Study Based on Student Questionnaires
Brian J Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 8 37 - 48 2024.3
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“Turned on” A Quasi-Experimental Design with Phrasal Verbs: Does the Type of Learning Intervention Matter?
Brian J Birdsell
AsiaTEFL Proceedings 2023: Papers from the 21st AsiaTEFL Conference 165 - 179 2024.1
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Exercising Before Learning Enhances Long-Term Memory for Foreign Language Vocabulary and Improves Mood
Brian J. Birdsell
Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning 5 ( 1 ) 1 - 18 2023.10
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Student writings with DeepL: Teacher evaluations and implications for teaching
Brian J Birdsell
JALT2021—Reflections and New Perspectives 2021 117 - 123 2022.8
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Effects of Visual Metaphors on Enhancing the Power of Advertisements
Brian J Birdsell
IAFOR Journal of Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 8 ( 1 ) 5 - 22 2022.8
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Book Review (Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn)
Brian J. Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 6 ) 83 - 90 2022.3
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Connecting High School Students with College Education at Hirosaki University: Expanding Outreach Through Online Education
Reik Jagno, Megumi Tada, Joshua L. Solomon, Sanae Katagiri, Brian J. Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 6 91 - 104 2022.3
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Enhancing Phrasal Verb Learning: A Quasi-experimental Study of Different Approaches
Brian J. Birdsell
JALT 2020 Communities of teachers & learners 244 - 251 2021.8
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Advancement of Neural Machine Translators and the Transformation of Foreign Language Teaching
Brian J. Birdsell
2021 International Conference MELTA Conference Proceedings 131 - 134 2021.7
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CLIL in the Times of COVID-19: Content, Communication, and Creative Cognition in Remote Learning
Brian J. Birdsell
The Journal of the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association (J-CLIL) 121 - 136 2021.3
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The Movements of Language: Learning from Embodied Semantics
Brian J. Birdsell
Bulletin of the JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG 6 ( 3 ) 14 - 21 2020.3
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A Review of the Critical Literature on CLIL and Steps to Move Japan-CLIL Forward
Brian J. Birdsell
The Journal of the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association (J-CLIL) ( 2 ) 105 - 121 2020.3
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Embodied Learning for Foreign Language Education
Brian J. Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 4 ) 15 - 25 2020.3
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Embodied Learning for Foreign Language Education
Brian Birdsell
Hirosaki University Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 15 - 25 2020
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Creative Cognition: Conceptual Blending and Expansion in a Generative Exemplar Task
Brian J. Birdsell
IAFOR Journal of Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 5 43 - 62 2019.10
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Making Metaphors: A Quantitative Analysis of Metaphor Production and Interpretation in Japanese Using a Multimodal Task
Brian J. Birdsell
33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 33) Conference Proceedings 361 - 371 2019.9
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A Review Article of Mark Landau's Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology : The Poetics of Everyday Life
Brian J. Birdsell
Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 3 ) 11 - 21 2019.3
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Exploring Cognition in CLIL: Creativity, Metaphors and Economics
Brian J. Birdsell
The Journal of the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association ( 1 ) 118 - 135 2019.3
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Creative cognition: conceptual blending and expansion in a generative exemplar task
Brian Birdsell
IAFOR Journal of Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 43 - 62 2019
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Exploring Cognition in CLIL: Creativity, Metaphors and Economics
Brian Birdsell
The Journal of the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association 1 119 - 136 2019
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Creative Metaphor Production in a First and Second Language and the Role of Creativity
Brian Jon Birdsell
2018.7
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Conceptual Wandering and Novelty Seeking: Creative Metaphor Production in an L1 and L2
Brian J Birdsell
Journal of Cognitive Science 19 ( 1 ) 35 - 67 2018.5
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Understanding Students' Psychological Needs in an English Learning Context
Brian J. Birdsell
Hirosaki University Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices ( 2 ) 1 - 14 2018.3
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Creative Metaphor Production in a First and Second Language and the Role of Creativity
Brian Jon Birdsell
University of Birmingham PhD dissertation 2018.3
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Conceptual Wandering and Novelty Seeking: Creative Metaphor Production in an L1 and L2
Brian Birdsell
Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 1 35 - 67 2018
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Understanding students’ psychological needs in an English learning context
Brian Birdsell
Hirosaki University Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 2 1 - 14 2018
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Innovating Change: A Multiple Case Study of Alternative Language Learning Environments in Japanese Higher Education
Brian Birdsell
Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level 11 334 - 350 2017.9
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The Role of Images in ELT Textbooks: A Case for Visual Metaphors
Brian Jon Birdsell
Hirosaki University Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 3 9 - 18 2017.3
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The Role of Images in ELT (English Language Teaching) Textbooks: A Case for Visual Metaphors
Brian Birdsell
Hirosaki University Journal of Liberal Arts Development and Practices 2017
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Action learning: Putting the mind back into the body in SLA
Brian Birdsell
English Lingua Journal 2 ( 1 ) 36 - 56 2015.12
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Japanese Students' Interest in CLIL: The Role of Individual Differences
Brian Birdsell
The Asian EFL Journal 87 20 - 46 2015.10
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Self-access learning centres and the importance of being curious
Brian Birdsell
Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal 6 ( 3 ) 271 - 285 2015.10
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Japanese Students’ Interest in CLIL: The Role of Individual Differences
Brian Birdsell
Asian EFL Journal 2015
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Self-access learning centres and the importance of being curious
Brian Birdsell
Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal 2015
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International Posture, Studying Overseas, and Gender
Brian Birdsell
The Journal and Proceedings of the Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) 7 27 - 59 2014.12
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Metaphors, Culture and the Classroom
Brian Birdsell
JALT 2013 Conference Proceedings 308 - 316 2014.8
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Fauconnier’s theory of mental spaces and conceptual blending
Brian Birdsell
Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics 2 ( 4 ) 72 - 90 2014.5
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Promoting Creative Tasks in the Foreign Language Classroom
Brian Birdsell
21st Century Education Forum ( 9 ) 2014.3
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Cornering the Muses: A Multifaceted Approach to Measuring Creativity
Brian Birdsell
The IAFOR Academic Review: Essays in Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 1 ( 1 ) 3 - 11 2014
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Fauconnier’s theory of mental spaces and conceptual blending
Brian Birdsell
The Bloomsbury companion to cognitive linguistics 72 - 90 2014
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Gender, international posture, and studying overseas
Brian Birdsell
Journal and Proceedings of the Gender Awareness in Language Education 7 29 - 50 2014
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Motivation and Creativity in the Foreign Language Classroom
Brian Birdsell
FLLT Conference Proceedings by LITU 2 ( 1 ) 887 - 903 2013.3
Books
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Tsugaru Life: English Through Local Topics Workbook
Megumi Tada, Brian J. Birdsell, Joshua L. Solomon, Sanae Katagiri, Reik Jagno （ Role： Joint author）
弘前大学 イングリッシュ・ラウンジ 2022.3
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Leben in Tsugaru: Deutsch mit lokalen Themen - Arbeitsbuch
Megumi Tada, Brian J. Birdsell, Joshua L. Solomon, Sanae Katagiri, Reik Jagno（ Role： Joint author）
弘前大学 イングリッシュ・ラウンジ 2022.3
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Tsugaru Life: German Through Local Topics
（ Role： Joint author）
2021.3
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Tsugaru Life: English Through Local Topics
Megumi Tada, Brian J. Birdsell, Joshua L. Solomon, Sanae Katagiri, Reik Jagno （ Role： Joint author）
弘前大学 イングリッシュ・ラウンジ 2021.3