Sessions /
Raising Awareness Through Discussion #818

I am an Associate Professor of English Education at Nara University of Education. I am also a long-time officer in the Kyoto chapter and currently the chapter President, and I’m a member of JALT’s Diversity and Equity Practices (DEP) Committee. In the Wednesday evening session, I will be speaking alongside other members of the CoC (Code of Conduct) and DEP Committees on how we in JALT can make it a more equitable and inclusive organization. In my Sunday morning presentation, I'll be talking about my ongoing investigation into the multimodal knowledge construction that happens in JTE-led secondary school English classes. This talk will focus on the background and methods being developed for this study through the twin perspectives of SF-MDA (Systemic-Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis) and LCT (Legitimation Code Theory). It will also portray current results and future directions. Hope to see you there!

Quenby Hoffman Aoki teaches at Seikei University in Tokyo. She is Coordinator of the JALT Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) SIG and a member of the Diversity and Equity Practices (DEP) Committee.

Jackson Lee is a Specially-Appointed Lecturer at Toyo University in Tokyo. He is also involved with JALT, serving as the Chair of the Diversity and Equity Committee as well as the Gifu Chapter President. His research interests include intercultural communication, teacher education and the Japanese English education system. E-mail: lee@toyo.jp

I've lived in Japan for 15 years, teaching at several universities in Nagoya and Gifu.