Ryan Spring

Ryan Spring received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his MA and PhD from the Graduate School of International Culture Studies of Tohoku University, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education at Tohoku University. He has published over 30 academic papers in journals such as Cognitive Linguistics and Foreign Language Annals, and is the Vice-president of the East Japan branch of the Association for Teaching...See more

Ryan Spring received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his MA and PhD from the Graduate School of International Culture Studies of Tohoku University, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education at Tohoku University. He has published over 30 academic papers in journals such as Cognitive Linguistics and Foreign Language Annals, and is the Vice-president of the East Japan branch of the Association for Teaching English through Multimedia. His research interests include cognitive linguistics, educational applications of linguistics, project based language learning, and objective measurements of foreign language production. See less