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JALT2005 Proceedings Writers

Here are brief biographies of the 167 writers who participated in the JALT2005 Conference Proceedings.

• Alberding, Mark: Mark Alberding currently teaches at the Center for English Language Education at Asia University in Tokyo. His interests include listening strategies instruction, vocabulary, and corpora and pedagogy.
• Allard, Daniele: Daniele Allard is currently involved in CALL research at Osaka University, with a focus on L1 interference in the L2 acquisition process.
• Altman, Jennifer: Jennifer Altman has been lecturing at the University of Washington since 1999. Before that, she was a visiting professor at Asia University in Tokyo.
• Arnold, Lee: Lee Arnold has taught in various eikaiwa schools in Japan since 1997. His teaching and research interests are with collocation, spoken grammar, and issues surrounding the L2 learning of Japanese adults. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Education and an M.Ed. in TESOL from the University of Tasmania.
• Backwell, Ben: Ben Backwell has been in Japan since 1997, and is teaching at Nanzan Junior High School for Boys. His interests include cooperative learning, role plays and multiple intelligences.
• Berberich, Frank: Frank Berberich teaches English and computers in both English and Japanese. His teaching interests include excellence in teaching and using technology in teaching.
• Biegel, Kenneth: Kenneth Biegel has been in Japan since 1983, and is teaching at several universities in Tokyo. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill conversation series, "What About You?". His interests include content-based instruction, extended oral fluency, and networking teachers with learners.
• Blackstone, Brad: Brad Blackstone teaches at Akita International University. His research interests include global issues in language education, and EAP student-centered research.
• Bourdeau, Jacqueline: Jacqueline Bourdeau is a Professor at Tele-Universite TELUQ - UQAM, Canada. She specializes in educational technology and has been actively involved in Tele-learning research and Artificial Intelligence in Education. She directed TELUQ's research center LICEF, from 2001 to 2003, a laboratory dedicated to cognitive informatics and training environments.
• Bradford-Watts, Kim: Kim Bradford-Watts has been teaching in a variety of contexts in the Kinki region since 1987. She also co-edits a number of JALT publications, writes, and is studying for a second masters level degree, this time in educational studies.
• Britto, Rory: Rory Britto is an Associate Professor at Kurume University where he has taught since 1992.His interests include cognitive psychology, motivation, and methods.
• Brown, Dale: Dale Brown works in the materials development division of GEOS Corporation and has recently completed an MA in TEFL/TESL with the University of Birmingham. His interests include vocabulary and materials development.
• Brown, Howard: Howard Brown has taught in Canada, Turkey and Japan. His teaching and research interests include extensive reading, TOEIC preparation, and CALL.
• Brown, Kathleen: Kathleen Brown is currently an Associate Professor at Kurume University in Fukuoka Prefecture. Research interests center around needs analysis methodology and instrumentation, with an undying curiosity in anything to do with language testing. Research in both is ongoing.
• Bryson, Michael: Michael Bryson is a teacher at the British Council Teaching Centre, Tokyo. His research interests include ways of developing learner autonomy in vocabulary learning strategies through technology-based approaches.
• Bussinger, Clay: Clay Bussinger has been teaching in Japan, and Japanese students for over 20 years. He is interested in providing students real life experiences in his ESL teaching. He teaches at Tokiwa University in Mito.
• Cates, Kip: Kip A. Cates has a B.A. in Modern Languages and Linguistics (French, German, Japanese) from the University of British Columbia, Canada and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, England. He is the coordinator of JALT's "Global Issues in Language Education" National Special Interest Group (GILE SIG) and editor of its "Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter". He teaches English at Tottori University as well as graduate courses on global education for the MA-in-TESOL program of Teachers College, Columbia University (Tokyo campus). He has lived, studied or traveled in over 50 countries and speaks 9 languages.
• Chuarayapratib, Nantawan: Nantawan Chuarayapratib is a lecturer at the Department of English, Thammasat University. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at Auburn University, U.S.A., where she obtained an M.A. in 1991. She recently received a Ph.D. from the University of Memphis, U.S.A. Her research interests includes technology and literacy as well as learner autonomy.
• Crawford, Michael: Michael Crawford teaches English and is involved in teacher training at the Hokkaido University of Education, Hakodate. His main research interests are methodology and materials development.
• Cullen, Brian: Brian Cullen has been in Japan since 1991, and is teaching at Nagoya Institute of Technology. His interests include CALL, materials development, songwriting and the use of music in the classroom.
• Deacon, Brad: Brad Deacon once began a story by saying, "Once upon a time there were three teachers in Japan who were very curious about their students' prior language learning experiences."
• Dendo, Gary: Gary Dendo is a full-time faculty member of the English and American Literature Department of Rissho University, Tokyo, and has over 10 years of teaching experience at the university level.
• Diem, Robert: Robert Diem has taught at both the secondary and university level for the past 12 years. In 1997 he received his M.A.T. in TESOL from The School for International Training. His interests include educational technology and materials development. He currently teaches at Seigakuin University and Kaisei Junior/Senior High School.
• Dore, Paul: Tim Murphey once concluded a story by saying, "I wonder how many exciting possibilities there are waiting for teachers, students, administrators and others to seize when they read these language learning histories!?"
• Elwood, James A.: Jim Elwood teaches at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. His interests include foreign language anxiety, vocabulary acquisition, and puppetry in the EFL classroom.
• Endo, Kazufumi: Endo Kazufumi has been studying on TESOL since 1999 in Teachers College of Columiba University. He is particulary intersted in global issus in reading class and investigating effective way of empowering students with skills and knowledge.
• Engler, Steve: Steve Engler has been in Japan for seven years. He currently teaches at Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku. He has been involved in the immersion camp in the capacity of both instrutor and researcher.
• Falout, Joseph: Joseph Falout is an assistant professor at Nihon University. He started teaching ESL and English composition in Chicago area colleges in 1991.
• Farrell, Peter: Peter Farrell has taught English to non-native speakers in Spain, the United States, and since 1996, in Japan. He has taught both high school and university age students. His present interests include journal writing, critical thinking skills in ESL, and content-based instruction. He is also interested in what language teachers can learn from their own language learning.
• Fearn, Frederick: Frederick Fearn currently teaches on the English Language Program at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include socio-cultural approaches to pedagogy, cognition, EAP and materials development.
• Forster, Douglas: Douglas E. Forster is a full-time lecturer at Japan Women's University. He is currently researching CALL and the use of film for EFL instruction.
• Fujimoto, Donna: Donna Fujimoto teaches at Osaka Jogakuin College. Her research interests include Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis, Narrative Analysis and Intercultural Education.
• Fujioka, Ken: Ken Fujioka teaches Engish at Keisen University. He is involved with overseas programs there.
• Fulmer, Patrick: Patrick Fulmer teaches at Showa Women's University. His research interests include shared teaching-learning and observation, reading-writing workshop, extensive reading, and small-group language learning.
• Fushino, Kumiko: Kumiko Fushino is a doctoral student at Temple university Japan. She also teaches at two universities in Tokyo. Her research interest includes cooperative learning in L2; students' perception of group work and their actual engagement in CL group work in L2 in particular.
• Gann, David: David Gann has been in Japan since 1996, and is teaching at Seigakuin University in Ageo, Saitama. His interests include materials development.
• Gardner, Scott: Scott Gardner has taught at Okayama University since 1998. His research interests include the benefits of humor in the classroom, as well as improving techniques for peer feedback of student writing.
• Gershon, Britt: Britt Gershon is from Yorkshire, England. She has been teaching in Japan for over 15 years. She is currently teaching at Obirin University Junior College and Aoyama Gakuin in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
• Gibson, Kenneth: Kenneth Gibson is a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the University of Kitakyushu. His interests include extensive listening and reading, extensive comprehensible input and computer assisted learning.
• Gould, Susan: Susan Gould has been teaching English for the OPELT program at Chubu University for three years.
• Guest, Michael: Michael (Mike) Guest has been in Japan for 16 years and currently is Associate Professor of English at Miyazaki University. He writes regular columns for The Daily Yomiuri newspaper and The English Teachers Japan (ETJ) Journal. His research interests include lexis, spoken grammar, cultural education, and testing.
• Hall, James: James Hall works as a teacher-trainer at the Iwate University Faculty of Education and has lived in Japan off and on since 1997. Before migrating south to Iwate, James had been a student, worked as an ALT, and taught entrance examination English over the span of 4 years in Hokkaido. The past year, in addition to training teachers, James has been busy being a daddy. When he is not working or with his family, James can be spotted on the tennis court.
• Harris, Timothy: Timothy Harris holds an M.A. in Teaching Foreign Language (Japanese) and an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, with an emphasis on Historical Japanese Linguistics. He taught at Kwansei Gakuin University from 1995-1998, and is currently teaching at Osaka Sangyo University.
• Harrison, Marlen: Marlen Harrison taught in Japan for 4 years before beginning his doctoral studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Mr. Harrison holds an MA in Education and Human Development from the George Washington University, and worked as a lecturer at Doshisha Univeristy, Momoyama University and Doshisha Women's College. Mr. Harrison is the Co-coordinator for the Learner Development SIG and current research interests include email exchange projects, student-led testing, and the creative arts in the English classroom.
• Harting, Axel: Axel Harting has a Master degree in German and English and taught at Bielefeld University (Germany) and at the University of New South Wales (Australia) before coming to Japan. He is now working at Hiroshima University and is doing his PhD on teaching German writing skills to Japanese students.
• Hatagaki, Yuko: Yuko Hatagaki has a Master's Degree in Literature, specializing in Comparative Literature, from Tokyo University and has been a full-time faculty member of Jissen Women's Junior College for 23 years. She has recently served as Dean of the Junior College and Chairman of the English Communication Department.
• Hawley Nagatomo, Diane: Diane Hawley Nagatomo has been living and teaching in Japan for nearly thirty years. Her teaching and research interests are engaged pedagogy, materials development and teacher education.
• Healy, Sandra: Sandra Healy came to Japan as a member of the JET program and is teaching at Setsunan University.
• Heffernan, Neil: Neil Heffernan has lived in Japan since 1995. He has worked at the tertiary level since 2002. His research interests include Testing/Evaluation and CALL.
• Hemmi, Chantal: Chantal Hemmi is a teacher at the British Council Teaching Centre, Tokyo. Her research interest is in the development of learner identity within a global learning context.
• Hewer, Robert: Robert Hewer teaches at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. His interests include constructivism and peer-learning.
• Higgins, Michael: Michael Higgins, Ph.D., is a full professor at Yamaguchi University, Japan. He has lived in Japan for 28 years. As a founding member of International Educational Initiatives, Inc. (IEI) and the Director of Education and Training for this Not-for-Profit organization, he lived in Russia for nearly 1 year to assist the development of the Yuzhono-Sakhalinsk International School, and has traveled to many other countries to conduct teacher training seminars in modularized, integrated spiritually-based global education, and content-based education. He is the author or co-author of several books and numerous publications on language learning, evaluation and testing, and education.
• Hisatsune, Ayako: Ayako Hisatsune is an Assistant Professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa Japan. Her research interests include learner motivation/autonomy, student-centered learning, and learning strategies.
• Hoskins, Chris: Chris Hoskins teaches at Akita International University. His research interests include focused listening, and EAP student-centered research.
• Hullah, Paul: Paul Hullah (M.A., Ph.D.) has taught at National and Private universities in Western Japan since 1992. Interested in content-based teaching and the influence of study text-type on L2 performance, he has written a series of successful EFL textbooks using 'literary' texts (prose, poetry, and song) to promote creative communicative comprehension and self-expression among Japanese university students. He has also published and presented widely in TEFL and literary critical areas, and an award-winning collection of his own poetry appeared in the UK in 2000.
• Humphries, Simon: Simon Humphries has been in Japan since 2001, and is teaching at Kinki University Technical College in Mie. His interests include bilingualism, motivation and encouraging students to communicate effectively.
• Ikeda, Ken: Ken Ikeda teaches English at Rikkyo University. His research interests are learner beliefs, classroom interaction and language testing. He has taught courses on Japanese Americans and Asian Americans at two universities.
• Imig, Alexander: Alexander Imig has been in Japan since 2001, and is teaching at Aichi Prefectural University and Aichi Prefectural University for Fine Arts and Music in Nagakute, near Nagoya. His interests include Curriculum planing, Rhetoric and Intercultural education.
• Ishikawa, Mami: Mami Ishikawa is a graduate student at Kyoto University. She taught at a high school in Yokohama for 9 years until 2002. Her interests include autonomous learning, material development, and higher education.
• Iwai, Chiaki: Chiaki Iwai is a professor at Hiroshima City University. Hi is interested in how L2 learners use and develop strategic competence, which he considered to be expanded to the issue of English as an international lingua franca.
• Jarrell, Douglas: Douglas Jarrell is teaching at Nagoya Women's University. His interests include learner autonomy, teaching children English, and CALL.
• Johnson, Ingrid: Ingrid Johnson teaches at Akita International University. Her research interests include autonomous and independent language learning, focused listening, and global issues in language education.
• Johnson, Judith: Judith Johnson, Associate Professor of Yamaguchi University, Japan, develops and teaches courses in technical/scientific English, Global Issues, Ethics, Moral Leadership and Teacher Education. She is involved in designing morally-based curricula and conducting teacher education programs in Asia, the Pacific Islands, the U.S.A., and Europe. Dr. Johnson is the Director of Curriculum of International Educational Initiatives, Inc. and the author and co-author of numerous articles and several books in the areas of language learning, curriculum development and teacher education.
• Jones, Brent: Brent A. Jones has taught ESL/EFL in Hawaii and Japan since 1987. He is currently teaching for the Faculty of Economics at Kobe Gakuin University. His major research interests are L2 learning motivation and instructional design.
• Jones, Mark: Mark Jones is a Lecturer in the Linguistics department at Kansai Gaidai University. His research interests include Japanese as a second language education in Japan and the role and function of English in Japanese society.
• Kamada, Laurel: Laurel Kamada has resided in Japan for over two decades and is presently a professor at Aomori Akenohoshi Junior College where she teaches classes in English Language, Topics in English, Comparative Cultures, and Gender and Language. She recently completed her Ph.D. thesis on the topic of multiethnic identity of Japanese-Caucasian adolescent girls.
• Katayama, Akemi: Akemi Katayama has been teaching Japanese in the US since 1993. She is currently teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Her interests include second language acquisition and language pedagogy.
• Kawamura, Masako: Masako Kawamura is a graduate student at Hiroshima City University as well as an advisor at Learning Support Center, Hiroshima Shudo University. She has been investigating how Japanese EFL learners develop their pragmatic competence in restricted contexts of authentic language use.
• Keith, Barry: Barry Keith has been in Japan since 1988, and is teaching at Gunma University. His interests include global issues, newspapers in education, and needs analysis.
• Kelly, Curtis: Curtis Kelly is a Professor at Osaka Gakuin University. His specialities are teaching English as a second language, storytelling, and adult education. He has published both EFL textbooks and books on education and Japanese culture, and is often asked to speak at EFL conferences in Asia.
• Kikuchi, Keita: Keita Kikuchi is a visiting lecturer at Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies. After he obtaining an M.A. in ESL from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, he has taught English, first in Singapore and now in Japan.
• Kikuchi, Takeshi: Takehsi Kikuchi teaches at Ibaraki University and Iwaki Meisei University. His research interests include pronunciation, learning strategies, and learner autonomy.
• Kimura, Harumi: Harumi Kimura studied Linguistics at Nanzan University and studies Second Language Acquisition and TESOL at Temple University Japan. She works for Language Lab, Seto Campus, Nanzan University. Her interests range from cooperative learning to individual differences of language learners.
• Knowles, Timothy: Tim Knowles has been teaching in Japan for twenty five years, and is now in the General Foreign Languages Center at Sophia University, Tokyo. He is currently researching into teacher motivation, for a Doctor of Education Degree at Bristol University, UK.
• Krieger, Daniel: Daniel Krieger taught for three years at Siebold University of Nagasaki. He is now an adjunct instructor at Columbia University's American Language Program and LaGuardia Community College in New York City. His research interests include sociolinguistics, vocabulary learning, and teaching methodology.
• Kurihara, Yuka: Yuka Kurihara is a Ph.D. candidate in Foreign and Second Language Education at the Ohio State University. Her main research interests include L2 teacher education, sociocultural aspects of language teaching and learning, and non-native speaking professionals.
• Kusaka, Laura: Laura Kusaka has been living in Japan most of her adult life. She is teaching at Aichi University primarily in the Junior College. Her interests include learner automony, content-based teaching and intercultural awareness.
• Kuwabara, Hidenori: Hidenori Kuwabara is teaching at Kiryo high school in Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito. His interest includes curriculum development, bilingualism, and needs analysis.
• Lado, Ana: Ana Lado, Ph.D., received her degree from Georgetown University in Applied Linguistics. She is an associate professor in the graduate program in TESOL in the School of Education and Human Services at Marymount University. She is also president of Lado Enterprises, Inc., the intensive English and TEFL certificate schools founded by her father Robert Lado (www.lado.com).Her interests include teacher training, bilingualism, literacy, and innovative approaches to teaching.
• Lauffenburger, Alain: Alain Lauffenburger has been in Japan since 1986, and is teaching at Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University in Satsuma-Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. His interests include bilingualism, language rights, international communication and linguistic democracy.
• Lavin, Richard: Rick Lavin works in the Faculty of Environmental and Symbiotic Sciences and associated graduate school at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto. His interests center around the use of emerging media, particularly in ESP and EAP settings, to enhance the learning of reading, writing, and vocabulary.
• Long, Robert: Robert Long is a lecturer at Kyushu Institute of Technology and has taught in Japan for 12 years. His interest areas cover pragmatics, culture,and material development.
• Lucantonio, Damian: Damian Lucantonio is associate professor at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. He has worked in TESOL as a teacher, teacher trainer and researcher in Australia, Indonesia and Japan. His research interests focus on the applications of systemic functional linguistics to English language teaching.
• Marchand, Tim: Tim Marchand currently runs a Smith's School of English franchise in Kyoto, Japan. Originally from England, he has lived in Japan since 1998 where he has also taught English to business, high school and university classes. His main interests include materials design, pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
• Markve, Steve: Steve Markve came to Japan as a member of the JET program and is teaching at Setsunan University
• Martin, Steven F.: Steven F. Martin is a doctoral candidate in T.E.S.O.L. from Temple University Japan and has been a full-time faculty member at Jissen Women's Junior College for four years.
• Martine, Linda: Linda Martine has lived in Japan for ten years and is presently teaching at Himeji Dokkyo University in Hyogo prefecture. Her interests include discourse analysis, fostering learner independence and extensive reading.
• Mason, Ronald: Ronald Mason has been teaching at Setsunan University for more than ten years.
• Matheny, William: William Matheny has worked as an ALT in Aichi Prefecture public junior high schools since 1997 and has lived in Nagoya since 1990. He is Coordinator of the Junior-Senior High SIG.
• Matsubara, Katsuko: Katsuko Matsubara is an associate professor of English at Aomori Public College. She teaches business English, oral communication and academic writing. Her interests include learner motivation, group dynamics, and student-centered learning.
• Matsuzaki Carreira, Junko: Junko Matsuzaki Carreira is a Ph.D candidate at Tsuda College. She also teaches part time at Keiai Universiy. Her research interests include motivation and teaching children.
• Mita, Kaoru: Kaoru Mita, Associate Professor, has a Master's degree in English Education from Tsukuba University, Japan, and is currently ABD (all but dissertation) for her Doctoral degree in Linguistics at Dokkyo University Japan. She has been a full-time faculty member at Jissen Women's Junior College for seven years.
• Mizoguchi, Riichiro: Riichiro MIZOGUCHI is currently Professor of the Institute of Scientificand Industrial Research, Osaka University. His research interests include Non-parametric data analyses, Knowledge-based systems, Ontological engineering and Intelligent learning support systems. Dr. Mizoguchi was President of the International AI in ED Society and the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education from 2001 to 2003. He received honorable mention for the Pattern Recognition Society Award, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Award, 10th Anniversary Paper Award from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Best paper Award of ICCE99 in 1985, 1988, 1996 and 1999, respectively. He is currently vice-president of the Japanese Society for AI.
• Morimoto, Yoko: Yoko Morimoto is teaching at the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University, Tokyo. Her interests include group dynamics, leaner autonomy, group projects, self-access, and learner development.
• Muller, Therom: Theron Muller has been in Japan since 2000 and is co-owner of Noah Learning Center, a small English conversation school in Nagano City. He also teaches at Nagano Seisen Junior College and Nagano National Colloege of Technology. His interests include task-based learning, classroom innovation, and learner motivation.
• Munezane, Yoko: Yoko Munezane teaches at Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen Shibuya. Recognized by her peers for her creative teaching ideas, she is the 2005 recipient of the John Fanselow award at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her interests include global issues and English literature.
• Munson, Bruce: Bruce Munson is currently teaching conversational English at the Ashikaga Institute of Technology in Ashikaga, Japan. He received his degrees from the University of Illinois at Springfield with concentrations in philosophy and global policy and also has a background in oil and gas artificial lift production. He holds memberships in the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
• Munson, Kimberly: Kimberly Munson is currently teaching conversational English at the Ashikaga Institute of Technology in Ashikaga, Japan. She received her degrees from the University of Illinois at Springfield with concentrations, Inter-cultural Communication and EFL/ESL teaching. She has additional background in International studies and Social Environmental History.
• Murphey, Tim: Tim Murphey has taught and studied in Florida, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Japan. He is currently teaching and learning at Dokkyo Univeristy north of Tokyo and summers at Hawaii Pacific University. He is the editor for TESOL's Professional Development in Language Education series, co-author with Zoltan Dornyei of Group Dynamnics in the Classroom (CUP, 2003), and most recently re-edited his popular Language Hungry! with Helbling Languages (2006).
• Nakamura, Eiko: Eiko Nakamura studied in the MA program of English language education at Okayama University. She is currently teaching at Okayama University and Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare as a part-time teacher. She has been also helping exchange programs for over 15 years.
• Nakamura, Ian: Ian Nakamura works in the Foreign Language Center at Okayama University. He is also a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. His professional and personal interests merge in the study, teaching, and enjoyment of music and films.
• Nakamura, Tomoko: Tomoko Nakamura has been with Hiroshima International University since 2002. She lives in Hiroshima, and is currently creating English textbooks and e-learning program for false beginners.
• Nakanishi, Takayuki: Takayuki Nakanishi is teaching at Tokiwa University in Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito. His interest includes CALL, learning strategy, and graded readers.
• Nakayama, Akira: Akira Nakayam Ph.D. is currently an English Professor at Ashikaga Institute of Technology. His doctorate dissertation focuses on student motivation. He also has a strong interested in the development of classroom activities using new technologies.
• Nogami, Yoko: Nogami, Yoko is currently in her second year of doctoral studies at Hiroshima City University. Her interests include pragmatics and language learners' awareness, especially investigations of advanced learners' ongoing learning in order to facilitate mutual communication in English.
• Noguchi, Mary Goebel: Mary Goebel Noguchi has lived in Japan since 1973 and is a Professor of English in the College of Law at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her research focuses on bilingualism in Japan. She is the founding editor of the Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and co-editor of Studies in Japanese Bilingualism.
• Ockert, David: David Ockert has been teaching in Japan for four years at the tertiary level and plans to pursue a Ph.D in Education. His research interests include the relationships between student motivation, learning strategies, and pedagogical activities.
• O'Connell, Sean: Sean O'Connell received an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from Sheffield University and is currently doing a PhD in Intercultural Communication from the University of Queensland. At present, he teaches oral communication (advanced level) and translating/interpreting skills at Nanzan.
• O'Dowd, Greg: Greg O'Dowd has been in Japan for some time, and is teaching at Hamamatsu University in the Faculty of Medicine. His interests autonomy, learner awareness and doctor/patient relationships.
• Ogane, Ethel: Ethel Ogane, EdD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Business Administration at Tamagawa University. She is interested in curriculum development and evaluation, media literacy, first-year education, and teacher education.
• Ohashi, Yumi: Yumi Ohashi has recetly completed a PhD in Education (TESOL) at the University of Leeds. She also holds an MA in TESOL (Young Learners) form the University of Warwick. Her primary interests are in young learners, socio-cultural approaches to language learning, and classroom discourse.
• Okayama, Yoko: Yoko Okayama is teaching at Ibaraki University in Mito, Ibaraki-ken. She is interested in attitudes towards languages, language policies, and CALL.
• Okunishi, Yuri: Yuri Okunishi studied in the MA program of English language education at Okayama University. She also worked as a coordinator for exchange programs at Himeji International Association for several years.
• O'Sullivan, Mary: Mary O'Sullivan teaches at Shiga University in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture. Her fields of interest include bilingualism, testing and learner development.
• Petrucione, Stephen: Stephen Petrucione has been teaching in Japan since 1971 and is currently teaching at Osaka Institute of Technology. His interests include development of student-centered activities with emphasis on improving listening and speaking skills.
• Picken, Jonathan: Jonathan Picken has been in Japan since 1986, and is teaching at Tsuda College in Tokyo. His interests include literature in language teaching, stylistics, metaphor research, and discourse analysis.
• Pommier, Emilie: Emilie Pommier has been a French assistant teacher for 4 years in Japan at Eichi (Sapientia)University. Her interests are on researching new activities to enjoy learning foreign languages.
• Potaka-Dewes, Te Mana: Te Mana Potaka-Dewes has been in Japan for eight years. He currently teaches in the Economics Department at The University of Kitakyushu. Among his intersets and accomplishments is organizing an annual one-week language immersion camp every summer.
• Rabbini, Roberto: Roberto Rabbini has been teaching English in Japan since 1994. He holds an M.A in Linguistics (TESOL) from Surrey University and is interested in teacher training, cross-cultural psychology, genre analysis and socio-cognitive variables on bilinguistic development. He currently teaches on the English Program at Seigakuin University.
• Ragan Jr., Jarrett: Jarrett Ragan has been teaching English to speakers of other languages for 28 years, first in Florida, then Malaysia and in Japan since 1990. He is now teaching at Akita International Unversity in Akita Japan. He is interested in Brain-based and Accelerated learning and teaching, motivation, learning and study skills and most recently has rediscovered the power of stories to shape lives and learning. He likes to discover ideas from varied fields such as neuroscience, economics, physics, systems theory and business, and adapt them for teaching English.
• Rankin, Monica: Monica Rankin lives and works in Wakayama. Her fields of interest include testing, cross cultural rhetoric and bilingualism.
• Rebuck, Mark: Mark Rebuck has taught English in Korea and Japan and worked for three years as a Coordinator for International Relations (CIR) in Shikoku. He holds and M.A. in Japanese from Sheffield University and an M.A. in TEFL from Birmingham University. After working for three years at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, he took his present position as an English Lecturer at Nagoya City University. Mark's research interests include the use of English loanwords in Japanese advertising.
• Reimann, Andrew: Andrew Reimann has been in Japan since 1996, and is teaching Comparative Culture in the Faculty of International Studies at Utsunomiya University. His interests include developing Intercultural Communicative Competance and exploring individual differences in Second Language Acquisition.
• Reinelt, Rudolf: Rudolf Reinelt has been teaching all aspects of German on all levels at Ehime University and various other institutions in and around Matsuyama, Japan, since 1981. In the 1990s, he was asked to start the Other Language Educators (OLE) Special Interest Group and has been its coordinator since then. In the early 2000s, he did comparative studies on early phases of French, Korean, Chinese, Tagalog and German as 2FLs. Besides laguage teaching, he has published papers on various languages and sociolinguistics, syllabus development, intercultural communication, and the development of writing.
• Renjel, Renee: Renee Renjel is a lecturer at Sophia University. She has been teaching courses on intercultural communication and research skills for the past several years. She is also a corporate intercultural trainer. Her interests include communication styles across cultures, cultural adaptation, and cultural identity.
• Rinnert, Carol: Carol Rinnert is a professor at Hiroshima City University where she teaches sociolinguistics and English debating. Her current areas of research include development of academic literacy and cross-cultural pragmatics.
• Robertson, Martha: Martha Robertson has lived in Japan for eight years. She teaches at Aichi University in the Department of Comparative Cultures. Her interests include learner development, cultural studies, writing and research.
• Romney, Cameron: Cameron Romney has taught EFL/ESL in both Japan and the United States for the last eight years and has an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Colorado. He currently is a contract lecturer at Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku (St. Andrew's University)in Southern Osaka.
• Rosszell, Rory: Rory Rosszell has been teaching English in Japan since 1989, and is currently teaching at Tohoku University in Sendai. His interests focus on content-based language instruction, or more specifically, the language learning students derive from doing extensive reading and/or listening, second language vocabulary acquisition, and the use of concordancing programs as an aid to the development of fluency.
• Royden, Kari: Kari Royden is a teacher at the British Council Teaching Centre, Tokyo. Her research interests are in developing ways of promoting learner autonomy in reading through a phonics approach.
• Rubrecht, Brian: Brian G. Rubrecht earned his Masters degree in TESOL and Bilingual Education from Georgetown University in 2000 and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a doctoral degree in Foreign Language Education. His professional interests include aspects of translation, interpretation, and curriculum development. His research interests include language learning motivation, second language learner autonomy, and cultural aspects that influence the learning of a foreign language.
• Rude, Markus: Markus Rude has been in Japan since 1995, and is teaching German at Tsukuba University (Ibaraki). He also taught German at Dokkyo University (Saitama) and English at Rissho University (Tokyo). His main interests are teaching language prosody and CALL.
• Ryan, Stephen M.: Stephen M. Ryan, from England, has been teaching in Japan since 1984. He is currently at Eichi (Sapientia) University.
• Saito, Aiko: Aiko Saito is teaching at Setsunan University.
• Sakamoto, Masako: Masako Sakamoto, EdD, has been teaching at Bunka Women's University since 1991. Her research interests include teacher education, motivation and SLA.
• Sakayori, Susie: Susan Sakayori is a third generation Japanese American from Chicago. Currently she is living in Kyoto teaching at two universities in the Kansai area.
• Sasaki, Miho: Miho Sasaki received her Ph.D.(Linguistics) from University of Essex, UK in 2004, and is currently teaching at Ibaraki University. Her research interests are first and second language reading processes and bilingual cognition.
• Sato, Jun: Jun Sato is a graduate student at Hiroshima City University, and currently he is teaching English at a high school. He is interested in cross-cultural interactions between different types of English speakers.
• Satoi, Hisaki: Hisaki Satoi is teaching at Setsunan University.
• Sharpe, Albie: Albie Sharpe is a lecturer at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto University and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. He teaches English language, health, human rights, peace, and other topics related to global issues . He has also been involved in the organization of a number of conference related to education and global studies, such the Peace as a Global Language Conferences (2004-2005).
• Shi, Jie: Ms Shi Jis has done research on TESOL in China,US, Singapore and Japan. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. Her main research areas include Curriculum Design, ESP, CALL (e-Learning) and Bilingualism.
• Shimada, Miori: Miori Shimada has been teaching young learners and adults at various schools. She also worked for different companies before working as a teacher. In addition, she worked as a freelance translator. Her current research interests are picture books, global education and elementary school English.
• Shirao, Mika: Mika Shirao, Ph.D. graduated from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and has been a full-time faculty member at Jissen Women's Junior College for three years.
• Shirato, Junko: Junko Shirato is a doctoral student at Hokkaido University. She also teaches English at Sapporo City University as a part-time instructor. Her research interests include contrastive learner corpus analysis and second language vocabulary acquisition.
• Silva, Cecilia: Cecilia Silva has been teaching Spanish in Japan since 1999, and is now lecturing at Tohoku University. Her interests include critical literacy, media literacy, and cultural awareness in foreign language learning.
• Spiri, John: John Spiri teaches at Akita International University. His research interests include global issues in language education, and computer assisted language learning.
• Stevens, Simon: Simon Stevens has been in Japan since 1990, and is teaching at Tokyo Joshidaigaku. His interests include learner feedback, ESP-teaching research skills, academic writing.
• Storey, Christopher: Christopher Storey is a lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the University of Kitakyushu. His research interests include reading, curriculum development and business English.
• Suganuma, Ruriko: Ruriko Suganuma graduated from British and American Literature Department, Showa Women's University, Tokyo in March 2004 with honors for Best Graduation Paper in Linguistics. She is currently assisting as a graduate researcher while considering her graduate school opportunities.
• Suzuki, Renata: Renata Suzuki has been in Japan since 1985, and is teaching at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her interests include environmental and holistic education, CBI, ESP and CALL.
• Takase, Atsuko: Atsuko Takase is teaching at Baika High School, Kansai University, Osaka International University, and Kinki University in Osaka. Her interests include extensive reading, reading motivation, istening, and CALL.
• Tanaka, Kiyomi: Kiyomi Tanaka is teaching English at Meikai University. She is also studying as a doctoral student at Temple University, Japan. Pragmatics, global education, and issues concerning teachers' profession are study topics she is interested in.
• Thrasher, Randy: Randy Thrasher is Professor Emeritus of International Christian University and is presently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Okinawa Christian University. He is also president of the Japan Language Testing Association and Secretary of the International Language Testing Association. He has been in Japan since 1959.
• Umeda, Hajime: Hajime Umeda teaches EFL in the Department of English Studies at Suzuka International University in Mie, and is currently Chair of the Department. He received an MA in TEFL from Indiana University. His research interests include inter-cultural communication, teaching methodology, and Japanese students' attitudes toward academic degrees while studying abroad.
• Varcoe, Charles: Charles Varcoe has been in Japan since 1996 and is teaching at Kaisei junior and high school, Toho university and Kanagawa university. His interests include global issues and promoting autonomy in learning.
• Verity, Deryn P.: Deryn Verity has taught at OJC since 2004. She has also lived and worked in Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand and Poland. Her research interests are sociocultural theory and teacher education.
• Wakui, Yoko: She finished her Masters degree at Columbia University Teachers College in 2003. She has been teaching at Rissho University since 2003, Keisen University since 2004 and Aoyama Junior College since 2005. Her interests include motivation, autonomy, psychology, strategy for all four skills.
• Walsh, Matthew: Matthew Walsh has been in Japan since 1985 and teaches at 2 highschools in Osaka. His interests include task-based learning, ESL/EFL writing pedagogy, and the use of computers for language teaching/learning.
• Watanabe, Yoshikazu C.: Yoshikazu C. Watanabe received a Master's degree from Georgetown University in TESOL and a PhD from the University of Iowa in Speech Pathology, and is conducting research on discourse and medicine.
• Weaver, Christopher: Christopher Weaver is a full-time English instructor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. His research interests include task-based instruction, individual differences and psychometric testing.
• WIlliamson, Rodger: Rodger Williamson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Kitakyushu. His research areas include comparative culture and intercultural communication studies. He is also interested in applications of extensive reading for English Language programs at the university level.
• Woolbright, Dennis: Dennis Woolbright is a professor at Seinan Jo Gakuin University in Kitakyushu where he is a member of the International Exchange Committee. He has been active with the Asian Youth Forum, and in JALT nearly 20 years.
• Yamakawa, Tomoko: Tomoko Yamakawa is a graduate student of the University of Tokyo. She is currently interested in language educational policy in the Council of Europe and language teaching in Japan.
• Yamazaki, Stella: Stella Yamazaki has taught English in America and Japan and is currently at Hosei University. Her interests include learning strategies and classroom methods.
• Yamazaki, Tatsuroh: Tatsuroh Yamazaki is a professor of English at Hosei University and has been teaching English in Japan for 17 years. His interests include vocabulary acquisition and sociolinguistics.
• Zamborlin, Chiara: Chiara Zamborlin is teaching at Nagoya University of Arts. She is interested in pragmatic issues. Her recent completion of PhD study at Hiroshima City University was about politeness issues related to Italian, Japanese, and English. Her interests include pragmatics and Italian language teaching methodology. She is a full time lecturer in Italian and in comparative culture at Nagoya University of Arts.
• Zitzmann, Andrew: Andrew Zitzmann was the Director of Program for JALT. He teaches at various universities in the Kitakyushu area, as well as running his own English language school. He grew up in a trilingual environment in Canada, lived in Europe, and has been in Japan since 1993.

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