Editorial
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Editor in Chief: Clay Williams
Clay Williams is a professor in the English Language Teaching Practices program of the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University. He received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. His research interests include cross-script word recognition, literacy acquisition, pedagogical adaptation in East and Southeast Asia, and online and virtual reality technology integration into L2 acquisition. He is the author of such books as Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-speaking World: Building Strategies Across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners.
Co-editor in Chief: Hideyuki Nakagawa
Hideyuki Nakagawa is an Associate professor in the Global Business program at Akita International University. His research interests are applied microeconomics and policy evaluation. He received Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Co-editor: Kaeko Chiba
Kaeko Chiba is an Associate professor in the Global Connection program at Akita International University. Her research focuses on Japanese traditional arts and culture, digital archives, gender and social class. Received Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from University of Bristol, UK.
Co-editor: Mark de Boer
Mark de Boer is an Assistant professor at Akita International University. He received a BSc in Biology and a BSc in Chemistry from York University in Toronto, Canada. He has an MA in TESOL from the University of Birmingham, UK and is a PhD Candidate with the Universidad de Jaén, Spain. He is an active researcher who has taught in Japan for 25 years and has extensive experience in ICT and program development. He has also taught in Spain and is involved in collaborative research with countries throughout Europe and Asia. His research interests include CLIL, assessment, and teacher-training through praxis. He is a co-editor of the recent volume Assessment and learning in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms: Approaches and conceptualisations and is the assistant chief editor of the Asian CLIL Journal.
Co-editor: Hisako Omori
Hisako Omori is an Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at Akita International University. She is interested in religion, ethnography, agency, power, food, and personhood. She received her Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada.
Tech Wizard/Co-editor: Irina Kuznetcova
Irina Kuznetcova is an assistant professor at Akita International University, Global Connectivity program (Japan). She received her BA in Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication from St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and her MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from The Ohio State University (USA). Her research interests lie on the intersection of several fields, including education, psychology, technology, and language learning, with the focus on technology and education, games and learning, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, English Medium Instruction, and educational psychology.