Masaru Yamamoto


PhD Candidate

Department of Language and Literacy Education

Faculty of Education

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Masaru Yamamoto is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His primary scholarly interests include multilingual socialization in postsecondary and other formal and informal settings, multimodality, and most recently, social network analysis. His doctoral dissertation project seeks to explore the multilayered and multifaceted sociorelational complexities of multilingual socialization experienced by undergraduate study-abroad students.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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