Service to the field

Editorial board membership        

         The International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL) (2008-present)       
        Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2004-present)
        Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education (2012-present)
        Journal of Cognitive Science  (2000-present)
        Journal of Japanese Linguistics (2000-2005)

Editor

       Studies in Language Sciences

Associate Editor     

        First Language (2003-present)

Ad hoc reviewer of research grant applications

        National Science Foundation (Linguistics)
        Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
        Dutch Research Council
        German Research Foundation
        Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
        Research Grant Council of Hong Kong
        Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
        ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), UK
        Qatar Research Foundation
        Language Learning Grant Program
        Austrian Science Fund 

Ad hoc reviewer

    Journals
            American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
            Applied Linguistics
            Applied Psycholinguistics
            Australian Journal of Linguistics
            Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
            Canadian Modern Language Review
            Chinese as a Second Language Research
            Cognition
            Cognitive Linguistics
            Developmental Psychology
            Discourse Processes
            First Language
             IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics and Language Learning 
             Issues in Applied Linguistics
            Japanese Language and Literature
            Japanese Studies
            Journal of Child Language
            Journal of Cognitive Science
            Journal of East Asian Linguistics 
            Journal of Linguistics 
            Journal of Memory and Language
            Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
            Journal of Japanese Linguistics
            Journal of Pragmatics
            Language
            Language Acquisition
            Language Learning
            Lingua
            Linguistics
            Modern Language Journal
            Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
            Second Language Research
             Studies in Second Language Acquisition
            TESOL Quarterly
            The Linguistic Review

    Books
            Routledge (evaluator of book proposal)                           
            Mouton de Gruyter (evaluator of book proposal)
            Cambridge University Press (evaluator of book proposal)
            Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (evaluator of book proposal)
            Thomson/Heinle (evaluator of book proposal)
            Basil Blackwell (evaluator of book proposal and manuscript)
            Cornell East Asia Series (evaluator of book manuscript)
            Kurosio Publishers (evaluator of book manuscript)
            John Benjamins (evaluator of book manuscript)

 Abstracts reviewer

            Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)  
            Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics
            IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language) Conference
            Chronos - International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality
            ICCS (International Cognitive Science Conference)
            The Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL-2)
            European Cognitive Science Conference
            Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting
            ATJ (Association of the Teachers of Japanese) Seminar (Strand: Second Language Acquisition) 
            Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL)
            GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America)
            American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting
            Boston University Conference on Language Development
            Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
            Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Language Sciences
            World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
            Pacific Second Language Research Forum
            Second Language Research Forum 

Positions Held

            President, Japanese Society for Language Sciences (2007- )