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Takaaki Hiratsuka23/05/2026, 11:00TD: Teacher DevelopmentA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
Native-speakerism continues to erode language teachers’ professional identities by privileging “native speakers” over equally qualified educators. Drawing on qualitative research with 12 participants, this talk interrogates how such hierarchies undermine professional legitimacy and inflict psychological harm. It then advances trans-speakerism as a corrective framework and highlights its...
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Mr Cuong Nguyen Huy (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan), Mr Duy Ngoc Pham (Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), Ms Duyen Nguyen Thien Ngo (Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), GIANG NGUYEN HOANG LE (Thompson Rivers University), Dr Nguyen Huy Cuong (Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam)23/05/2026, 11:40TD: Teacher DevelopmentA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This multimodal visual collective autoethnography explores our experiences of teacher precarity in the Vietnamese context of English language teaching
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Hiroki Konishi (Kansai University)23/05/2026, 12:20GE: Global EnglishesA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This study focuses on the multilingual shift and Global English Language Teaching, which emphasise diverse English varieties and challenge native-speaker norms. Previous research indicates that exposure to diverse English speakers shifts both teachers' and learners' perspectives towards communication-focused usage. Building on these findings, this study examines Japanese private university...
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Nidal Butt23/05/2026, 13:30GE: Global EnglishesA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This study explores how Global Englishes (GE) materials can be incorporated into a textbook-based university EFL curriculum in Japan. Using a scaffolded approach, GE content was integrated alongside existing textbook units rather than replacing them. The study reports on learner responses to this integration, focusing on attitudes toward English variety, ownership, confidence, and classroom...
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Zebiniso Izzatillaeva23/05/2026, 14:10BILING: BilingualismA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This presentation examines early language mixing in a 3-year-old trilingual child (Uzbek, Japanese, and English) in Japan using a short naturalistic audio recording of spontaneous play. Drawing on Wang (2024), the analysis shows that code-mixing functions in problem-solving, emotional expression, imitation, topic shift, and expression of camaraderie (peer awareness). These findings demonstrate...
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Niko Catharine Watanabe Schultz (Sophia University)23/05/2026, 14:50
Japan's linguistic diversity is growing, with over 69.000 students needing Japanese as a second language (JSL) instruction in 2023. JSL students face significant disadvantages: significant dropout rates, lower advancement rates, and unequal access to support. One underexplored factor is Japan's test-centric system, where exams designed for native speakers may misrepresent multilingual...
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Thomas Stringer (University of St Andrews; The University of Osaka)24/05/2026, 09:30TD: Teacher DevelopmentA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This presentation explores the creation and development of the St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (SAJILE), an international, online-only journal and its Community of Practice (CoP). The presenter, a CoP insider, introduces an ongoing investigation of evolving professional learning and identity within this CoP, using complexity theory and qualitative methodologies:...
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Ms Ma Wilma Capati (Global Englishes SIG)24/05/2026, 10:10BILING: BilingualismA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This study focuses on STEM Students' Perspective of Translanguaging practices in General English courses. Results from students in lower-level English courses were to students from higher-level English courses in accordance to their perspective of translanguaging in motivation and improving their comprehension
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Dr Alexandra Shaitan (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)24/05/2026, 10:50BILING: BilingualismA. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This presentation explores how multilingualism and language prestige shape identity negotiation among mixed-race individuals in Japan. Focusing on a half-Japanese, half-Russian participant, it examines how Japanese, English, and Russian are differently valued in interaction and narrative. Using discourse-analytic approaches, the study highlights how raciolinguistic ideologies constrain...
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Frederic Lim (Method_.Mastery)24/05/2026, 11:30TD: Teacher DevelopmentB. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)
Language teachers make complex pedagogical decisions intuitively, yet time pressure often prevents these decisions from being made explicit in lesson planning. This practice-oriented session explores how CI-informed planning routines can help teachers articulate and preserve their instructional judgment while reducing planning friction. Classroom examples and a brief demonstration illustrate...
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Natalie Correia, Mr Prumel Barbudo (Meikai University)24/05/2026, 12:40
The Global Englishes forum features two presentations. Natalie Correia discusses how intercultural exchanges can influence high school students’ native-speakerist ideologies. Prumel Barbudo considers a university-level International Fair as a temporary multilingual community of practice. Their work looks at how educational experiences can help develop more flexible, multilingual, and...
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Brett Laybutt (Globiz Professional University), Sean Mitchell (Globiz Professional University)24/05/2026, 14:00TD: Teacher DevelopmentB. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)
In recent years due to the falling birthrate, Japanese universities and colleges are enrolling increasing numbers of international students, creating more linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. This presentation explores how a group of instructors at a vocational college have adapted their teaching practices in response, focusing on how instructors have adapted to these contexts....
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