Teaching Staff

Program Directors

Yasushi Sekiya

Founding Director
Specially Appointed Professor, Kanda University of International Studies

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Gordon Myskow

Director
Associate Professor, Kanda University of International Studies

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Greetings from the MA TESOL Program of Kanda University of International Studies! Our program focuses on developing English language teachers as up-to-date, active professionals who are able to make decisions about teaching that help their students become successful users of English. We emphasize the practice of classroom teaching across the curriculum of the program. We believe that reflective teaching practices are the foundation of professional expertise. Our program also stresses interaction and collaboration, with teachers working together on assignments and projects as part of their professional development. We strive for the KUIS MA TESOL Program to be the shared home of a supportive community of teachers who help each other improve English language education in Japan. In no other program will teachers receive the same level of input about teaching, opportunities to practice (and explore in their practice), and helpful feedback from a supportive community of fellow teachers.

External Consultants

Kensaku Yoshida

Professor Emeritus, Sophia University English education in Japan is presently facing major challenges, such as the lowering of the age at which English is taught in elementary school, overhaul of university entrance exams, pros and cons of teaching English through English, the setting of educational objectives in the form of CAN-DO statements, etc. Despite the significance and amount of issues lying before us, there are still very few Japanese teachers of English who are capable of coping with them. Being conducted in English, the TESOL program of Kanda University of International Studies offers the opportunity to not only Japanese teachers of English but also foreign teachers teaching in Japan to acquire the professional knowledge necessary to contribute to the solving of these issues.

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Rod Ellis

Professor, University of Auckland Good TESOL programs reflect the interface between theory and practice in their curriculum. Such an interface is essential for developing expertise in teaching English as a second/ foreign language. In this respect the Kanda University of International Studies’ TESOL program is exemplary. It provides a wide-ranging set of required and elective courses that address all the major areas of TESOL and does so by demonstrating the theoretical underpinnings of good practice while also providing opportunities for students to draw on their own experience of teaching or learning English and to develop their teaching skills. My own contribution to the program reflects this theory-practice interface. I teach an elective course on task-based language teaching (TBLT). My interest in TBLT derives from my conviction that how we teach English a second/foreign language has to accord with how learners learn it. TBLT reflects this by emphasizing meaning-making in conjunction with a focus on linguistic form. It aims to develop the interactional and linguistic competence that all learners need to become effective communicators in English as a second language. Such an approach is especially important in the Japanese context where there are few opportunities to use English communicatively outside of the classroom.

Past and Current Teaching Staff

	NAME	AFFILIATION & RANK
1	Dwight Atkinson	Professor, University of Arizona
2	Donna M. Brinton	Lecturer, University of California
3	Charles Browne Researchmap	Professor, Meiji Gakuin University
4	Rod Ellis	Professor, Curtin University
5	John F. Fanselow	Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Teachers College
6	Thomas S.C. Farrell	Professor, Brock University
7	Gavin Furukawa	Associate Professor, Sophia University
8	Gregory Paul Glasgow Researchmap	Associate Professor, KUIS
9	Chris Carl Hale Researchmap	Associate Professor, Akita International University
10	John Hedgcock	Professor Emeritus, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
11	Noriko Ishihara Researchmap	Professor, Hosei University
12	Yasuko Ito Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
13	Daniel O. Jackson Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
14	Satoko Kato Researchmap	Associate Professor, KUIS
15	Masaki Kobayashi Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
16	Aya Matsuda	Professor, Arizona State University
17	Paul Kei Matsuda	Professor, Arizona State University
18	Tim Murphey Researchmap	Visiting Professor, KUIS
19	Jo Mynard Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
20	Gordon Myskow Researchmap	Associate Professor, KUIS
21	Nena Nikolic	Lecturer, KUIS
22	Siwon Park Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
23	Hayo Reinders	Professor, Unitec Institute of Technology
24	Yasushi Sekiya Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
25	William Snyder Researchmap	Lecturer, KUIS
26	Makiko Tanaka Researchmap	Professor, KUIS
27	Scott Thornbury	Associate Professor, The New School
28	Hisako Yamashita	Associate Professor, Kobe Shoin Women's University
29	Kensaku Yoshida	Professor Emeritus, Sophia University
30	Paul R. Underwood	Professor, Toyo Eiwa University

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