YAMANA Yuuko

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Education and Human Studies  Department of School Education  Combined Courses for Child Development and Special Needs Education Teachers  Course for Child Development and Education
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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • 発達心理学

  • 幼児教育

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

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    1995.03

    Mimasaka University   Faculty of Home Economics   Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

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    2002.09

    Kobe Gakuin University    Doctor's Course  Other

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    1998.03

    Kobe Gakuin University    Master's Course  Completed

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Kobe Gakuin University -  Doctor(Human Studies)

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2019.04
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    Akita University   Faculty of Education and Human Studies   Department of School Education   Combined Courses for Child Development and Special Needs Education Teachers   Course for Child Development and Education   Professor  

  • 2007.10
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    2019.03

    Akita University   Faculty of Education and Human Studies   Associate Professor  

  • 2005.04
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    2007.09

    Akita University   Faculty of Education and Human Studies   Lecturer  

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Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2002.04
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    United States

     

    International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Educational psychology  / 発達心理学

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Childhood and nursery/pre-school education

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Qualification acquired 【 display / non-display 】

  • Usual First Kind of Kindergarten Teacher License

  • First Kind of Elementary School Teacher License

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Research Achievements 【 display / non-display 】

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  • The effect of animation on learning action symbols by individuals with intellectual diabilities.

    Fujisawa, K., Inoue, T., Yamana, Y.,& Hayashi, H.

    Augmentative and Alternative Communication   27   53 - 60   2011.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

  • From grammatical　number to exact numbers: Early meanings of ‘one’,‘two’,and‘three’in English, Russian,　and Japanese

    Barbara W. Sarnecka, Valentina G. Kamenskaya, Yuko Yamana, Tamiko Ogura ＆ Yulia B. Yudovina

    Cognitive Psychology   55   136 - 168   2007.09  [Refereed]

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  • Distribution strategies of preschoolers when distributed results are out of sight

    Yuko Yamana

    Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology   54 ( 1 ) 25 - 33   2006.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

  • How can we use animations to help preschoolers to obtain more efficient distribution strategies? "jointly worked"

    Yuko Yamana, & Tomoyoshi Inoue

    Japanese Psychological Research   48 ( 1 ) 54 - 63   2006.03  [Refereed]

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  • Influences on the distribution strategies of preschoolers: The effects of the number of chips per plate

    Yuko Yamana

    The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology   16 ( 2 ) 135 - 144   2005.08  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

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    ◆International conference proceedings【 display / non-display 】

  • Language as lens: Morphological cues guide children's attention to number "jointly worked"

    B.W.Sarnecka, V.G.Kamenskaya, T.Ogura, Y.Yamana, & J.B.Yudovina

    Proceedings of the 28th anuual Boston University Conference on Language Development   2   494 - 505   2004.10  [Refereed]

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  • Viewing animations enhances efficient distribution strategies for preschoolers "jointly worked"

    Yuko Yamana, & Tomoyoshi Inoue

    Modeling and simulation     215 - 221   2004.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Domestic Co-author

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    ◆University bulletin, Research institution【 display / non-display 】

  • Relationship of the use of fingers in doing calcultaions with arithmetical / mathematical abilities "jointly worked"

    Shinichiro Sugimura, & Yuko Yamana

    The Annual Research on Early Childhood   28   41 - 49   2006.06

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Domestic Co-author

  • Instruction to children who use of fingers during calculations: The results obtained from teachers' interview and an exploratory questionnaire "jointly worked"

    Yuko Yamana, & Shinichiro Sugimura

    Bulletin of The Center for Educational Research and Practices Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University   28   145 - 154   2006.04  [Refereed]

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Domestic Co-author

  • The desirable of specialization of nursery school and kindergarten teachers, and the training for kindergarten teacher at university

    Junko Okuyama,& Yuko Yamana

    Bulletin of The Center for Educational Research and Practice Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University   28   119 - 132   2006.04  [Refereed]

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Domestic Co-author

  • The images of development in University students

    Yuko Yamana

    Annual Research Report on General Education Alita University   ( 8 ) 23 - 28   2006.03

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

  • Positioning of planning in kindergarten education: Planning and specialization of kindergarten teacher from the results of the questioner "jointly worked"

    Junko Okuyama, & Yuko Yamana

    Memoirs of Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University   61   83 - 90   2006.03

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  • Children's Language Use in a Multicultural Kindergarten::Focusing on 5-Year-Olds' Code Switching

    Huang Wanchien, Yamana Yuko, Sakakibara Tomomi, Wada Mika

    RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION in JAPAN ( JAPAN SOCIETY of RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION )  56 ( 3 ) 174 - 185   2018

    <p>This study aims to find how the children who grow up in a multicultural environment communicate with other people surrounding themselves during the new-language-learning process, and to clarify the situations when children switch between languages, especially under what circumstances and how often the children interact with others in different languages in multicultural kindergartens.</p><p>We observed eight children who were playing in a Chinese language kindergarten in Japan. The results showed that the Chinese-Japanese bilingual children usually take a more proactive stance on language switching rather than passive responding. Furthermore, they managed to switch to their dominant language when they didn't know an appropriate word in the other language in the kindergarten. The results that have been indicated by adult speakers in related research are confirmed in our study.</p>

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • A Developmental Study on Equal Distribution Behavior in Preschoolers

    Yuko Yamana

    2005.03

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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display 】

  • Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

    Project Year： 2020.09  -  2022.08 

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

    Project Year： 2018.04  -  2022.03 

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)

    Project Year： 2009.04  -  2012.03 

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

    Project Year： 2006.04  -  2010.03 

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

    Project Year： 2004.04  -  2007.03 

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • What instruction language is more favorable for your child when to choose a school or kindergarten?

    Tomoyoshi INOUE,Yuko YAMANA

    The 32nd International Congress of Psychology  (Prague)  2021.07  -  2021.07 

  • Preschool teachers’support for children in a multicultural context: Case study of Taiwanese preschools with Japanese children.

    Sakakibara, T., Yamana, Y., Wada, M., Huang, WC., & Takagi, K.

    第19回ヨーロッパ発達心理学会  2019.08  -  2019.09 

  • Discrepancy between performances and understanding of distribution tasks in young children.

    Yamana,Y., & Nakagaki, A.

    英国心理学会発達心理学会部門会議  2018.09  -  2018.09 

  • How children try to equality distribute things when they are indivisible.

    Yamana, Y.

    European Conference on Developmental Psychology  (Utrecht, Nederland)  2017.08  -  2017.09 

  • The interactions among the children in multicultural care and education.

    Yamana, Y., Sakakibara, T., Wada, M., & Huang, Wan-Chien

    European Early Childhood Education Research Association   2016.08  -  2016.09 

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