Dr Kayoko Hashimoto
Director of Higher Degree by Research
Japanese Major
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56328
Researcher biography
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto is Senior Lecturer at School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her main research area is language policy with particular interest in construction of national and individual identities in fluid multicultural and multilingual contexts. She has been actively involved in national and international research and teaching collaborations in Australia, Japan, Vietnam, UK and Poland – a visiting fellow at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2024-2025 and an Erasmus+ mobility program scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland in 2025. She is an editor/author of five books, including Rethinking the Asian Language Learning Paradigm in Australia (2024, Palgrave Macmillan), Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and Beyond Native-Speakerism (2018, Routledge, with S. A. Houghton & D. J. Rivers).
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Local Government Initiative for Implementation of 'Easy Japanese' as a Language Choice of their Multilingual Websites The Nippon Foundation |
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Books
Hashimoto, Kayoko and Nguyen, Van-Trao (2018). Professional Development of English Language Teachers in Asia: Lessons from Japan and Vietnam. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315413259
Houghton, Stephanie Ann, Rivers, Damian J. and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). Beyond native-speakerism: current explorations and future visions. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315643601
Book Chapters
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2025). Monolingual Approach and Multilingual Learners: A New Phase of Japanese Language Education Policy. Ideologies of Communication in Japan. (pp. 34-48) Bristol, United Kingdom: Channel View Publications. doi: 10.2307/jj.30412877.9
Jee, Min Jung and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2024). Summary and implications for other Anglophone countries. Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia. (pp. 151-161) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-74149-4_7
Fillmore, Naomi, Disbray, Samantha, Haugh, Michael, Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, Crump, Des and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2024). Pathways to teaching global languages: challenges, opportunities, and implications for Asian language teachers in Australian schools. Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia. (pp. 17-44) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-74149-4_2
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2024). Introduction: Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia. Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia. (pp. 1-15) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-74149-4_1
Hashimoto, Kayoko and Disbray, Samantha (2023). University-school partnerships. Language policy. (pp. 3-17) edited by Zia Tajeddin and Carol Griffiths. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38754-8_1
Hashimoto, Kayoko and Glasgow, Gregory Paul (2022). English language policy in Japan: history, current realities and challenges ahead. English in East and South Asia: policy, features and language in use. (pp. 33-46) edited by Ed Ling Low and Anne Pakir. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429433467-4
Hashimoto, Kayoko and Glasgow, Gregory Paul (2019). CLIL for who?: commodification of English-medium courses in Japan's higher education. Multilingual education yearbook 2019: media of instruction and multilingual settings. (pp. 103-119) edited by Indika Liyanage and Tony Walker. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-14386-2_6
Houghton, Stephanie Ann and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). Preface. Towards post-native-speakerism: dynamics and shifts. (pp. XVII-XVIII) edited by Stephanie Ann Houghton and Kayoko Hashimoto. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). Teaching licence renewal and the professional development of Japanese primary school teachers of English. Professional development of English language teachers in Asia: lessons from Japan and Vietnam. (pp. 29-44) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto and Van-Trao Nguyen. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315413259-3
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). "Mother tongue speakers" or "native speakers"?: assumptions surrounding the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language in Japan. Towards post-native-speakerism: dynamics and shifts
. (pp. 61-77) edited by Stephanie Ann Houghton and Kayoko Hashimoto. Singapore, Singapore : Springer Nature . doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-7162-1_4
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). Japan's 'super global universities' scheme: why does the number of 'foreign' students matter?. Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: international students and stakeholders. (pp. 25-44) edited by Abe W. Ata, Ly Thi Tran and Indika Liyanage. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315201412-2
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). Cool Japan and Japanese language: why does Japan need "Japan fans"?. Japanese language and soft power in Asia. (pp. 43-62) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5086-2_3
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). The professional development of English language teachers in Asia: lessons from Japan and Vietnam. Professional Development of English Language Teachers in Asia: Lessons from Japan and Vietnam. (pp. 1-10) edited by Hashimoto, Kayoko and Nguyen, Van-Trao. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315413259-1
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2017). Introduction: why language matters in soft power. Japanese language and soft power in Asia. (pp. 1-12) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2017). Introduction: why language matters in soft power. Japanese language and soft power in Asia. (pp. 1-12) edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5086-2_1
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2015). The role of newspapers in constructing public representations of 'monster parents'. Configurations of family in contemporary Japan. (pp. 91-103) edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta. Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2014). 'English-only', but not a medium-of-instruction policy: the Japanese way of internationalising education for both domestic and overseas students. Language planning for medium of instruction in Asia. (pp. 16-33) edited by M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa T.M. Nguyen and Richard B. Baldauf. London, UK: Routledge.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2013). The construction of the 'Native Speaker' in Japan's educational policies for TEFL. Native-speakerism in Japan: intergroup dynamics in foreign language education. (pp. 159-168) edited by Stephanie Ann Houghton and Damian J. Rivers. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters. doi: 10.21832/9781847698704-015
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2012). The Japanisation of English language education: Promotion of the national language within foreign language policy. Language Policies in Education. (pp. 175-190) edited by James W. Tollefson. New York United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203813119
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2012). Compulsory "foreign language activities" in Japanese primary schools. Language planning in primary schools in Asia. (pp. 63-80) edited by Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Robert B. Kaplan, Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Pauline Bryant. Oxon, England, U.K.: Routledge.
Hashimoto, K. (2007). Interdisciplinarity and connecting research to the "Real World". Rhizomes: Connecting languages, cultures and literatures. (pp. 13-18) edited by Nathalie Ramière and Rachel Varshney. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hashimoto, K. (2007). Japan's language policy and the "lost decade". Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts. (pp. 25-36) edited by Tsui, A. B. M. and Tollefson, J. W.. London, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. doi: 10.4324/9781315092034-2
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2002). Implications of the recommendation that English become the second official language in Japan. Englishes in Asia: Communication, identity, power and education. (pp. 63-74) edited by Andy Kirkpatrick. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Language Australia.
Journal Articles
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2024). The researcher’s positionality, ethics, and research methods in language education research. JALT Journal, 46 (2), 226-236. doi: 10.37546/jaltjj46.2-5
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2022). Language, mobility and employability among Southeast Asian migrant workers in Japan. Asian Studies Review, 46 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2103645
Kusunoki, Rika and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2022). Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a language option? Local responses to the increasing foreign resident population from Southeast Asia. Asian Studies Review, 46 (4), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2075322
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2022). Why are you learning Japanese? Vietnamese university students’ perspectives on work and life between Vietnam and Japan. Asian Studies Review, 46 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2025577
Kadowaki, Kaoru and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2020). オーストラリア・クイーンズランド州の 中等教育機関及び州政府の文書に見られる日本語母語話者教師の捉え方. 大学日本語教員養成課程研究協議会論集, 18, 25-38.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2020). Japanese language politics in Southeast Asia: a case study in Vietnam. Vietnam Review of Northeast Asian Studies, 9, 62-69.
Katayama, Kumiko and Hashimoto, Kayoko (2019). What makes students speak Japanese in immersion programs? State policy, school curriculum and individual learners in Australia. Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2 (3), 104-120. doi: 10.29140/ajal.v2n3.225
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2019). Book review: The Oxford handbook of language policy and planning edited by James Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2018. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40 (8), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1588204
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2018). The JET Program and the US–Japan Relationship: Goodwill Goldmine : By Emily T. Metzgar. Lanham, Boulder, New York & London, Lexington Books, 2017, vii, 198 pp. (hardback). Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 15 (1), 64-65. doi: 10.1057/s41254-018-0107-9
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2013). ‘English-only’, but not a medium-of-instruction policy: the Japanese way of internationalising education for both domestic and overseas students. Current Issues in Language Planning, 14 (1), 16-33. doi: 10.1080/14664208.2013.789956
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2011). Compulsory “foreign language activities” in Japanese primary schools. Current Issues in Language Planning, 12 (2), 167-184. doi: 10.1080/14664208.2011.585958
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2009). Book Review: John Knight. Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations. Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.. Asian Studies Review, 33 (3), 390-391.
Hashimoto, K. (2009). Cultivating "Japanese who can use English": Problems and contradictions in government policy. Asian Studies Review, 33 (1), 21-43. doi: 10.1080/10357820802716166
Hashimoto, K. (2007). Power and illusion: Old words, new expressions and desire for empowerment. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 105-114.
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2000). 'Internationalisation' is 'Japanisation': Japan's foreign language education and national identity. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21 (1), 39-51. doi: 10.1080/07256860050000786
Conference Paper
Hashimoto, Kayoko (2012). Literacy policy in multicultural Australia. Linguapax Asia International Symposium 2011, Tokyo, Japan, 3 December 3 2011. Tokyo, Japan: Sun Process Co..