Yu Tamura
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yu Tamura is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 2. Towards a new framework of scientific inquiry into L2 cognitive system Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research: Challenges and new directions, Fukuta, Junya, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi (eds.), pp. 18–42 | Chapter
One of the primary objectives of second language (L2) research, when approached as a branch of cognitive science, is to develop theories of human capacities that explain the acquisition of the L2 cognitive system and its underlying processing mechanisms. This chapter asks what it means to study… read more
2026 Chapter 6. Psychological approaches to the ‘Dual-System Model’ in SLA: A critical overview Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research: Challenges and new directions, Fukuta, Junya, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi (eds.), pp. 125–150 | Chapter
This paper critically examines the application of dual-system models in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) by drawing parallels with the dual-process framework from cognitive psychology. While the implicit/explicit knowledge distinction has played a key role in SLA theory and practice, recent… read more
2023 Pitfalls of production data analysis for investigating L2 cognitive mechanism: An ontological realism perspective Journal of Second Language Studies 6:1, pp. 95–118 | Article
This article addresses the pitfalls of performance analysis in investigating cognitive processing during second language (L2) learning. The problems that we discuss in this paper are twofold: (1) Assuming psychological variables to be ontological entities without meeting the criteria for… read more