Research Experience
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2022.05-Now
Waseda University Green Computing Systems Research Organization Research associate
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2022.04-2024.03
Seisen University The Insitute of Language Education
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2021.04-2022.03
Kawagoe Higashi High School
ARAI, Yuya
Affiliation
Research Council (Research Organization), Green Computing Systems Research Organization
Job title
Research Associate
Mail Address
Education Background
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2022.04-Now
Waseda University Graduate School of Education
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2019.04-2021.03
Waseda University Graduate School of Education
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2015.04-2019.04
Waseda University School of Education
Research Areas
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Foreign language education Second language reading / Foreign language education learner psychology / Foreign language education language testing/assessment
Research Interests
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Second language reading
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Extensive reading
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Laguage testing/assessment
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Learner psychology (flow theory)
Awards
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2024 JLTA Best Book Award
2024.10 Japan Language Testing Association Understanding L2 proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Winner： Yo In'nami, Yuya Arai, Rie Koizumi, Junko Yamashita
Papers
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Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other Venues 2023–2024
Shenika Harris, Min Gui, Yuya Arai, Rachel Garton
Reading in a Foreign Language 36 ( 1 ) 2024.09 [International coauthorship]
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Yuya Arai, Kotaro Takizawa
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 3 ( 2 ) 2024.08 [Refereed]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
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Reading with the flow: Perceived text difficulty and motivation to read in L2 Japanese
Yuya Arai
Journal of the Japanese Association of Language Proficiency 11 2023.08 [Domestic journal]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
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Yuya Arai
Language Assessment Quarterly 20 ( 3 ) 277 - 295 2023.05 [Refereed]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
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Exploring perceived difficulty of graded reader texts
Yuya Arai
Reading in a Foreign Language 34 ( 2 ) 249 - 270 2022.10 [Refereed]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
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Perceived book difficulty and pleasure experiences as flow in extensive reading
Yuya Arai
Reading in a Foreign Language 34 ( 1 ) 1 - 23 2022.04 [Refereed]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
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Yuya Arai
Journal of Extensive Reading 7 15 - 32 2019.12 [Refereed]
Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author
Books and Other Publications
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Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Eun Hee Jeon, Yo In'nami( Part： Contributor, Chapter8: L2 listening and its correlates: A meta-analysis (In'nami, Koizumi, Jeon, & Arai))
John Benjamins 2022.08
Presentations
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You may say this better: Consequential validity evidence for diagnostic speaking assessment on lexical use.
Shungo Suzuki, Hiroaki Takatsu, Ryuki Matsuura, Mao Saeki, Yuya Arai, Yoichi Matsuyama
Presentation at the 45th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Innsbruck, Austria.
Presentation date： 2024.07
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Building an argument for test score interpretation and use for a fully automated online assessment of L2 spoken interaction.
Yasuyo Sawaki, Yuya Arai, Masaki Eguchi, Shungo Suzuki, Yoichi Matsuyama
Presentation at the 45th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Innsbruck, Austria.
Presentation date： 2024.07
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A baseline washback study of a new placement test for university students using Assessment Use Argument framework
Keita Nakamura, Yuya Arai, Yanping Deng, Tatsuro Tahara, Yasuyo Sawaki, Kana Matsumura, Xiaofei Liu
the 26th Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2023.09
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A baseline washback study of placement testing in a university English-speaking course in terms of instructors’ decision-making behaviors
Kana Matsumura, Xiaofei Liu, Yasuyo Sawaki, Yuya Arai, Yanping Deng, Keita Nakamura, Tatsuro Tahara
the 26th Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2023.09
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Towards an explainable automated scoring of spoken interaction with a conversational AI agent
Yoichi Matsuyama, Shungo Suzuki, Mao Saeki, Hiroaki Takatsu, Ryuki Matsuura, Yuya Arai
the 44th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)
Presentation date： 2023.06
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L2 listening comprehension and its correlates: A meta-analysis of correlation coefficients
Yo In'nami, Rie Koizumi, Eun Hee Jeon, Yuya Arai
American Association for Applied Linguistics 2022 Conference
Presentation date： 2022.03
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The effects of perceived book difficulty on differences in Japanese high school students’ flow experiences in extensive reading as a pleasure reading activity: A research proposal
Yuya Arai
早稲田大学英文学会・英語英文学会2019年度合同大会.
Presentation date： 2019.11
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教職課程履修学生への意識調査から考察する多読の理解とその問題点
新井雄也
38th Intercollegiate Conference on English Teaching (ICET) Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2019.02
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多読の理論と実際：教職課程履修学生の多読に関する意識調査
新井雄也
早稲田大学英文学会・英語英文学会2018年度合同大会.
Presentation date： 2018.12
Misc
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多読の指導への導入に関する議論―教職課程履修学生の観点から
新井雄也
『英語教育』 70 ( 3 ) 66 - 67 2021.06
Teaching Experience
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Second-year English (Writing)
Seisen University
2022.04-2024.03 -
English Expression II
Kawagoe Higashi High School
2021.04-2022.03 -
Communication English II
Kawagoe Higashi High School
2021.04-2022.03
Academic Activities
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Peer Review (Reading in a Foreign Language)
Peer review
2024.11-Now -
Peer Review (Language Teaching Research)
Peer review
2024.10-Now -
Peer Review (Applied Linguistics)
Peer review
2024.01-Now -
Peer Review (Reading in a Foreign Language)
Peer review
2024.09-2024.12 -
Peer Review (TESOL Quarterly)
Peer review
2023.11-2024.11 -
Peer Review (Research Methods in Applied Linguistics)
Peer review
2024.06-2024.10 -
Peer Review (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)
Peer review
2024.05-2024.08 -
Peer Review (Language Assessment Quarterly)
2023.10-2024.01 -
Peer Review (Reading in a Foreign Language)
Peer review
2023.06-2024.01 -
Peer Review (Language Assessment Quarterly)
Peer review
2023.03-2023.10 -
Peer Review (Reading in a Foreign Language)
Peer review
2022.10-2023.06