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Panel Discussion and Closing Ceremony #307

Wayne Malcolm is an assistant professor for teaching English at Fukui University of Technology. He has been living and teaching in Japan since 2002. He is the current Director of Program for JALT, which he has been an active member of since 2008.

Louise Ohashi is an associate professor at Meiji University whose main research areas are learner autonomy, motivation, and CALL/MALL. She is JALT2020’s Conference Co-Chair and volunteers in JALTCALL as Publicity Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair. Twitter @ohashilou

Rebecca L. Oxford, Ph.D. (Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland) co-edited Peacebuilding in Language Education (Multilingual Matters, 2021). She has published 14 other books on peace, eco-education, transformative education, and language learning and has given presentations in 43 countries. She co-edits two book series: Spirituality, Religion, and Education (Palgrave) and Transforming Education for the Future (Information Age). “Rebecca Oxford’s research has changed the way the world teaches languages,” stated a lifetime achievement award.

JALT 2020 Conference Co-chair

I teach content electives (focusing on topics such as gender, intercultural skills, positive psychology, identity) in the foreign language department of Kyoto Sangyo University. My research interests include: 1) Visibility / invisibility and sense of belonging of LGBTQIA+ students in classes and campus & creation of diversity-positive spaces. 2) The intersection of language, intercultural training and education with a focus on building intercultural competence in English language classrooms.

Patrick Jackson is an author of primary ELT courses and readers, including the bestselling Everybody Up, Potato Pals, and Shine On. Patrick enjoys exploring how teachers can link their classrooms to the wider community and the world beyond. A passionate beachcomber and litter-picker, Patrick is the creator of the Picker Pals school system, a story and song led environmental initiative that gives children and their families real world litter-picking experience. He speaks locally and internationally on the subject of environmental education, with a particular focus on how we can get children onto the first rung of the eco-ladder. Patrick tweets as patjack67.

Kay Irie is a Professor at the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University, Tokyo. She is involved in developing and managing the English language program to support EMI. She also teaches at the Graduate College of Education at Temple University Japan. Her research interests include language learning psychology, learner autonomy, and research methods in these areas, including Q-methodology.

Professor & Head, Department of Language Education | , |Kathmandu University School of Education, Nepal,   Senior Vice President, Nepal English language Teachers' Association (NELTA)

I’ve been calling Japan home for almost 20 years. My favorite foods include tomatoes and cheese. I don’t have a pet but I’d really like to have a cat named Pookey.

Beniko Mason, EdD, is professor emerita at Shitennoji University Junior College in Osaka, Japan. She first began her Extensive Reading (ER) program in 1984 at a vocational school in Osaka, Japan based on the Input (Reading) Hypothesis (Krashen, 1981, 1982, 1985). She began to add auditory comprehensible input, “storytelling” into her reading program in 1990. She now calls it “Story-Listening.” She also calls her reading program “Guided Self-Selected Reading” (GSSR) instead of ER, distinguishing her language program from others, which are not fully consistent with current Second Language Acquisition Theory. Her current interest is to determine the amount of input needed to help low beginning level students reach the high intermediate or low advanced level of the target language in order to prepare them for academic and business language.

Prof Nomad (Ahmar Mahboob) is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research attempts to generate practices and resources that contribute to the immediate needs of local communities.