
REFEREED PAPERS
原著論文
Elliot, D. L., Albertyn, R. M., & Sakurai, Y. (2026). Turning the spotlight on intellectual humility: A potentially novel approach to fostering doctoral development (and researcher independence). Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2026.2629481
Albertyn, R. M., Elliot, D. L., & Sakurai, Y. (2025). Conceptualising Intellectual Humility in Advanced Research Contexts: Insights for Postgraduate Supervision. Journal for New Generation Sciences, 23(2), 76-87. https://doi.org/10.47588/jngs.2025.23.02.a7
Sakurai, Y., Shizuki. S., & Mason, S. (2025). International academics’ institutional integration and social adaptation among different local language competence groups in Japan. Research in Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999251379390
Sakurai, Y., Cheng, W., & Saruta, S. (2024). Navigating doctoral students’ dual-track academic socialisation in Japan. Journal of Higher Education Research. https://dx.doi.org/10.61186/johepal.5.2.103
Mason, S., Frick, L., Castelló, M., Cheng, W., Chong, S. W., Díaz Villalba, L., García-Morante, M., Kong, M. S., Sakurai, Y., & Spronken-Smith, R. (2024). What makes a Thesis by Publication? An international study of policy requirements and restrictions. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2024.2389357
Mason, S., Frick, L., Castelló, M., Cheng, W., Chong, S. W., Díaz Villalba, L., …, , Sakurai, Y. (9th author), … & Weise, C. (2024). Prominence, Promotion and Positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’in Six Countries. Higher Education Policy, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-024-00350-7
Sakurai, Y., Saruta, S., & Cheng, W. (2023). Mixed methods study on foreign early career academics’ sense of knowledge and intellectual development. Higher Education Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12453
Sakurai, Y., Ishikura, Y., Nakano, R., Nabeshima, Y., Sengoku, Y., Okada, A., & Kondo, S. (2023). University Administrators’ Visions for the Recovery of International Student Exchange in a Post–COVID-19 World. Higher Learning Research Communications, 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.18870/hlrc.v13i1.1396
Sakurai, Y. & Mason, S. (2023). Work environment factors affecting foreign early-career researchers’ Intention to stay, sense of belonging, and stress. Asia Pacific Journal of Education (Journal Impact Factor 2022-2023 1.478) https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2023.2198159 [ACCEPTED VERSION]
Sakurai, Y., & Mason, S. (2023). Foreign early career academics’ well-being profiles at workplaces in Japan: A person-oriented approach. Higher Education, 86(6), 1395-1413. (Journal Impact Factor 2022-2023 3.947). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00978-7 [ACCEPTED VERSION]
Sakurai, Y. (2022). Engagement in continuing subject knowledge development: A year after short-term international courses, Journal of Studies in International Education, 26(4), 493–510 (Journal Impact Factor 2018: 2.547). https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153211004284 [ACCEPTED VERSION]
Sakurai, Y., Shimauchi, S., Shimmi, Y., Amaki, Y*., Hanada, S*., & Elliot, D.L. (*equal contribution) (2021) Competing meanings of international experiences for early-career researchers: A collaborative autoethnographic approach. Higher Education Research and Development (Journal Impact Factor 2021-2022: 3.851). https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.2014410 [ACCEPTED VERSION] 【国内外の学生が短期間集中的に学ぶ国際プログラムに参加した学部学生のその後の学術知識開発の様子を調査しました】
Sakurai, Y. and Pyhältö, K. (2021), Disciplinary differences in doctoral student engagement in generic skills learning, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 12(2), 230-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-03-2020-0018 [ACCEPTED VERSION]
【博士課程の学生の汎用スキル習得の機会への関与が分野によってどのように異なるのかを明らかにしました】
Mason, S. and Sakurai, Y. (2021). A ResearchGate-way to an international academic community? Scientometrics. (Journal Impact Factor: 2.770), 126, 1149–1171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03772-3
【日本の研究者がどのようにResearchGateを使っているか明らかにしました】
Sakurai, Y. (2019). Students’ perceptions of the impacts of short-term international courses. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning. doi: 10.1108/JRIT-10-2017-0026 [RESEARCH IN BRIEF (IN JAPANESE)]【学生にとっての短期国際研修のインパクトを整理しました】
Sakurai, Y., Vekkaila, J., & Pyhältö, K. (2017). More or less engaged in doctoral studies? Domestic and international students’ satisfaction and motivation for doctoral studies in Finland. Research in Comparative and International Education (Journal Impact Factor 2018: 1.765), 12(2), 143-159. doi: 10.1177/1745499917711543 [ACCEPTED VERSION]
【どちらが博士課程の学びにより関与しているのか?フィンランドの現地学生と留学生の満足度と博士課程の学業への動機の観点から】
櫻井勇介 (Sakurai, Y). (2017). 日本語教育研究の統計結果の妥当性と信頼性を検討する―学会誌『日本語教育』を対象に―. [Examining the Reliability and Validity of Statistical Results Reported in Japanese Language Education Research]. 日本語・日本学研究 [Journal of Japanese Studies], 7, 1-17. (in Japanese)
Sakurai, Y., Parpala, A., Pyhältö, K., & Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (2016). Engagement in learning: a comparison between Asian and European international university students. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (Journal Impact Factor: 1.765), 46(1), 24-47. doi: 10.1080/03057925.2013.866837
【学業への関与:アジアとヨーロッパの大学留学生の比較の観点から】
Boeren, E., Lokhtina-Antoniou, I., Sakurai, Y., Herman, C., & McAlpine, L. (2015). Mentoring: A review of early career researcher studies. Frontline Learning Research, 3(3), 64-76. doi: 10.14786/flr.v3i3.186 【メンタリング:若手研究者に関するレビュー研究】
Sakurai, Y., Pyhältö, K., & Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (2014). Are Chinese university students more likely to exhibit a Surface approach to learning than the other international students in Finland? Journal of Research in International Education, 13(2). 135-148. doi: 10.1177/1475240914540119【フィンランドで学ぶ中国人留学生はほかの留学生と比べて浅い学びをより見せるのか?】
Sakurai, Y., Pyhältö, K., & Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (2012). Factors affecting international doctoral students’ academic engagement, satisfaction with their studies, and dropping out. International Journal for Researcher Development, 3(2), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475240914540119 【博士課程留学生の学業への関与、満足度、退学に関わる諸要因】
櫻井勇介 (Sakurai, Y). (2012a). 母語話者教員と非母語話者教員に対する学習者の「よい教師」像―エジプト人日本語学習者の場合 [Native and non-native “good teachers” for Egyptian learners of Japanese language]. 日本語・日本学研究 [Journal of Japanese Studies], 2, 17-32. (in Japanese)
Sakurai, Y. (2012b). Learners’ perceptions on “good” foreign language teachers: Quantitative analysis between native and non-native teachers. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 9(1), 46-66.【学習者のよい外国語教師像:母語話者と非母語話者教員に対する認識の量的分析】
Sakurai, Y. (2009a). Academic experiences in a cross-national tertiary program: Language immersion amid the sciences. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21(2), 239-247.【国家間高等教育プログラムにおける学業経験:理系分野における言語イマージョン】
櫻井勇介 (Sakurai, Y). (2009b). 理工系日本留学課程で学ぶマレーシア人学生の学習管理過程–言語管理理論の援用による分析 [Study management processes by Malaysian students in Japanese science and engineering tertiary courses: case study from the perspective of the language management framework]. 留学生教育 [Journal of International Students Education], 14(14) 73-81
EDITED BOOK
共編著書籍
櫻井勇介, 文景楠, 佐藤亮司, 杉村美紀 (共編著). (2020). 『日本で出会う世界 国内で実現する短期集中型国際研修』ぎょうせい/上智大学出版. (in Japanese)
BOOK CHAPTERS
書籍の分担
Sakurai, Y. (2024). The post-2010s transformation of Japanese study abroad: A particular focus on outbound programs. In S. Kondo, Y. Sengoku, R. Nakano, & A. Okada (Eds.), In International Student Mobility in Japan: Higher Education in the Era of the New Normal (pp. 60-76). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003436898-4
Sakurai, Y., *Han, J., & *Zhang, X. (2023). Mapping the Learning Opportunities of the Hidden Curriculum for International Doctoral Scholars in Japan. In Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum (pp. 31-40). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42875-3_3 (*equal contribution)
Mason, S. and Sakurai, Y. (2022), “Moving in and Coming Home: Insights from Two Early Career Researchers in Japan”, Nachatar Singh, J.K. (Ed.) Academic Mobility and International Academics (Surviving and Thriving in Academia), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-510-420221013
Sakurai, Y., Ishimatsu, J., & Ito, M. (2020). Using text mining in a diary study unpacking students’ engagement in a short-term international course. In E. Braun, R. Esterhazy, & R. Kordts-Freudinger (Eds.), Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (pp. 163-175). Münster: Waxmann. https://www.waxmann.com/buecher/Research-on-Teaching-and-Learning-in-Higher-Education
Sakurai, Y., Virtanen, V., Vekkaila, J., & Pyhältö, K. (2018). International doctoral students’ perceptions of factors contributing to their career visions. In V. Korhonen & P. Alenius (Eds.), Internationalisation and Transnationalisation in Higher Education (pp. 279-302). Bern: Peter Lang Group Publishing. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055639#
Sakurai, Y. & Pyhältö, K. (2018). Understanding Students’ Academic Engagement in Learning amid Globalising Universities. In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2017 (Vol. 34, pp. 31-38): Emerald Publishing, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920180000034003
OTHER REPORTS
その他の執筆文書
Yonezawa, A., Kitamura, Y., Ogisu, T., Sakurai, Y., Shimauchi, S., Jung, J., … & Breaden, J. (2023). Creating Educational Research as International Knowledge: Fostering early-career educational researchers through international networking. Educational Studies in Japan, 17, 131-135.
伊藤みちる, 櫻井勇介, 石松純, 工藤理恵 (2020) 異なる出身国のアジア人大学生群は短期国際授業において異なる学習経験をするのか 「人間生活文化研究 2019年度研究実施報告書」(in Japanese)
2020 日本社会では「日本語教師」についてどのような認識が持たれているのだろうか お茶の水女子大学「異文化間コミュニケーション演習」(博士前期課程)の研究報告論文 (in Japanese)
2012 卒業生のケーススタディーと10年越しの謝恩会, 『日本研究教育年報』, 東京外国語大学, pp. 101-105. (in Japanese)
2007 JADプログラムにおける接触場面をめぐって―学生の学術活動を中心に―, 『JAD活動報告書 2007』, Japanese Associate Degree Program, Malaysia, pp 83-92. (in Japanese)
2007 成人学習としての教師成長の機会の一考察-JAD勉強会の活動報告を兼ねて-, 『JAD活動報告書 2007』, Japanese Associate Degree Program, Malaysia, pp 106-115.
2004 Kanji learning strategies by Chinese background learners. Melbourne: Monash University. (in Japanese)
DEGREE PAPERS
学位論文
DOCTORAL THESIS Understanding factors contributing to the academic engagement of international university students, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
MASTER THESIS Writing in Japanese as a Second Language: Composing on the computer and by pen-and-paper, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
BACHELOR THESIS タイ国日本語教育の漢字学習ストラテジーについて [A Studyon Kanji Learning Strategy Use by Thai Learners] 東京外国語大学 [Tokyo University of Foreign Studies], Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)
ONLINE REPORTS
各種報告書
2016 世界的視野をもった市民的エリートに贈る 「国際研修」『教養学部報』 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences (in Japanese).
2010 日本語専門家派遣終了にむけた活動の報告 『世界の日本語教育の現場から 日本語専門家の声』 Japan Foundation (in Japanese).
2009 新しい力と伝統、そして学生は-数年先の日本とエジプトのために 『世界の日本語教育の現場から 日本語専門家の声』 Japan Foundation (in Japanese).
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