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PIE SIG Forum #279

Vivian Bussinguer-Khavari is an associate professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and her research interests include Performance in Education (PIE), Heritage Language Education (HLE), and TESOL, to name a few.

David Kluge has been a member of JALT since 1983. His research interests are oral interpretation/readers theatre, drama, speech, presentation, debate, cooperative learning, materials development, and CALL. He is a founding officer of both the CALL SIG and the Performance in Education SIG and has published oral communication and composition textbooks for Macmillan LanguageHouse and Cengage/National Geographic Learning. He is the incoming Co-coordinator of the Performance in Education SIG.

Rhea Metituk is currently posted in South Korea at at the University of Ulsan Language Education Center where she has been teaching classes in conversation, business English, writing, TOEIC speaking and listening, and creative film projects and presentations to Korean and international students. This past two semesters like many at post-secondary institutes she has adapted to new methods which at UOU has entailed real-time speaking classes on zoom using blended learning methods. In Korea TESOL, Rhea is the 2020 First Vice President.

Yoko Morimoto was born and raised in Japan. She completed her BA in Education (TESL and Linguistics) at Long Island University in New York, and her MA in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since 1990, she has been teaching in the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University, Tokyo. She has also lived in New Zealand and France in recent years. In the last several years, she has been experimenting on herself with learning French through drama in a professional drama school in Paris, which has proven very positive for learning the language relatively quickly, and she has been exploring the use of drama-inspired activities while researching on neuroscientific studies to support them.

Chhayankdhar Singh Rathore is an assistant lecturer at Soka University. He currently serves as the Publicity Chair of the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG. His areas of interest include performance in education, language acquisition, TESOL, CLIL, sociolinguistics, and World Englishes. Within performance in education, he is involved in the use of process drama, roleplays, debate, and presentation in English language classrooms.

Gordon Rees is an associate professor at Yokkaichi University in Mie. He is also the Coordinator of the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG. Gordon has an MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University. Currently, he is doing research on PAL (performance-assisted learning) and enjoys utilizing radio drama, reader's theater and other PAL activities in presentation and reading classes.

E Von Wong is an assistant lecturer at Soka University. Her research areas of interest include public speaking, oral presentation, and drama in ELT. Coming from an ESL background, public speaking activities in English played an indispensable role in increasing her confidence and motivation towards English speaking. She later stumbled upon the wonder of role playing and started implementing it in some of her lessons.

George MacLean is a professor at the University of the Ryukyus. He has taught at primary-junior high and university levels in Japan and in the international school system. His activities within JALT include time serving as President and Publicity Chair of the Okinawa Chapter, co-Chair of PanSIG 2016, reviewer for several national conferences, as well as service on two national committees. He has given numerous workshops and research presentations over the past decade. He is on the editorial and review board of two educational journals. His research interests include ICT implementation, active learning, and second language acquisition (SLA).

Kim Rockell is an associate professor at Komazawa University in Tokyo. His research interests encompass ethnomusicology and performing arts in education. Originally from New Zealand, for the past several years, he has been resident in Japan, where he has been learning the utai [chant] and shimai [dance] of the Noh theatre.

Yukari Saiki is a professor at Tokai University in Kanagawa. Her research interests include Performance in Education (PIE) and JSL.

Ashley Ford is a language lecturer at Nagoya City University in Nagoya, Japan. Her areas of interest include Creative Project-Based Learning and Performance in Education, especially through film-making and music performance activities. Her current research activities focus on the role of showcasing student work. She is currently organizing a film festival for English language learners, which she hopes you will encourage your students to enter!