2016 Plenary Speakers

Speaker:

Makoto Ikeda

Affiliation:

Faculty of Humanities Department of English, Sophia University

Bio:

Makoto Ikeda is professor of English philology and English language education at Sophia University. He received his MA from University of London and his PhD from Sophia University. He has published a number of articles and books on CLIL, and guest-edited a special issue of The International CLIL Research Journal focusing on CLIL in Japan. His recent publications include co-authored CLIL: New Challenges in Foreign Language Education at Sophia University, Vol. 3: Lessons and Materials, Sophia University Press (forthcoming).

Speaker:

Laurence Anthony

Affiliation:

Center for English Language Education, Waseda University, Japan.

Honorary Research Fellow, Lancaster University, UK.

Bio:

Laurence Anthony is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. His main interests are in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program design and teaching methodologies, corpus linguistics, and educational technology. He is head of the ESP section of the JACET awards and publications committee and serves on the editorial boards of various international ESP journals. In 2012, he received the National Prize of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) for his work on corpus software tools design.

Image of Makoto Ikeda from The Language Teacher. Image of Laurence Anthony provided by Laurence Anthony. Composite image edited by Sean Gay.