2026 CUE and GALE SIG Conference

Session

Room 102 - Presentation 4

102-4

10 Oct 2026, 11:45

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Conveners

Room 102 - Presentation 4: Using personal narratives to help international students explore their identity in Japan

• John Rucynski

Room 102 - Presentation 4: Negotiating Indian English Teacher Identities in Japanese Universities

• Suprateek Chatterjee (British Council/Hitotusbashi University)

34. Negotiating Indian English Teacher Identities in Japanese Universities

Suprateek Chatterjee (British Council/Hitotusbashi University)

1

Research Presentation - CUE

This exploratory qualitative study will investigate how Indian English teachers working primarily at Japanese universities understand and negotiate their linguistic identities. Through semi-structured interviews, it will examine how participants position themselves in relation to English, Indian Englishes, Hinglish, and the native/non-native speaker binary. It will also consider how these...

2. Using personal narratives to help international students explore their identity in Japan

John Rucynski (Okayama University)

Practical Presentation - CUE

The presenter will summarize a pilot course designed to help students from diverse cultural backgrounds discuss their identity and sense of belonging in Japan. Students read a series of personal narratives by long-term foreign residents focused on how a passion for a specific aspect of Japanese culture helped with the acculturation process and made the writer feel more at home in Japan. The...