Noriko Yoshimura obtained her MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California, USA. She taught linguistics and conducted English teacher training programs as a full-time professor at the University of Shizuoka. She is currently a visiting professor at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka and Kokushikan University in Tokyo. Her research interests include English-Japanese comparative syntax, second language acquisition, and educational linguistics. She serves as the Secretary General for the Central Japan Society of Linguistics and sits on the advisory board for the Japan Second Language Association. She has co-authored numerous journal papers with Mineharu Nakayama and Atsushi Fujimori, one of which received the Oral Presentation Award from the Japan Second Language Association in 2022.