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JASAL Forum: Fostering Community in Self-Access Environments #269

Katherine is an associate professor at Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, and Events Coordinator for JASAL. Her research interests include multilingualism, language policy in non-classroom language learning spaces and language learner identity.

Clair Taylor is an associate professor at Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Japan, where she manages “Lounge MELT” (a social language learning space for university students). Her research interests are learning space design and learning beyond the classroom. She is currently the president of the Japan Association for Self-Access Learning.

Bethan Kushida is a Principal Lecturer in the English Language Institute at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan. Her areas of interest include learner autonomy, learner identity and learning beyond the classroom.

Phoebe Lyon is a Principal Lecturer for Curriculum and Assessment at Kanda University of International Studies, Japan. Her research interests include learner autonomy, learner identity, materials development and assessment.

Ross Sampson is a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. He holds an MEd in TESOL from the University of Glasgow and has worked in the TESOL field for 10 years. His research interests are learner identity, learner autonomy and reflection.

Technical staff in Kyushu University's Self-Access Learning Center (SALC). PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyushu University. MA in Japanese Humanities, Kyushu University. Researching the impact of the atomic bomb on minority groups.

Daniel Hooper is a lecturer in the English Language Institute at Kanda University of International Studies. He has taught in Japan for 14 years, predominantly in secondary education and the English conversation school industry. He completed his MA in TESOL at Kanda University of International Studies. He has published books on the eikaiwa industry and social learning spaces as well as a number of articles in journals such as Language Teaching Research, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, and Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research. His research interests include learner and teacher identity, reflective practice, communities of practice, and the eikaiwa industry.

Assistant Professor, PhD (Comparative Culture) MA (Japanese Studies). Research in sociolinguistics of Japanese, Polish, English. Advisor to Kyushu University Self-Access Learning Center.