Kip A. Cates has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of
British Columbia, Canada, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the
University of Reading, England. He is a professor in the Faculty of
Regional Sciences of Tottori University, Japan where he teaches courses
on language, culture, globalization and international exchange. He also
teaches graduate courses on global education for the MA-in-TESOL
program of Teachers College Columbia University (Tokyo campus). He is
the coordinator of the "Global Issues In Language Education" Special
Interest Group (GILE SIG) of the Japan Association for Language
Teaching (JALT) and past chair of the "TESOLers for Social
Responsibility" Caucus of TESOL. He publishes a quarterly "Global
Issues in Language Education" newsletter and has worked as a global
education and EFL consultant with groups such as UNESCO, FIPLV and the
Japanese NGO Peace Boat. He has given plenaries, talks and workshops on
global education and language education worldwide in countries such as
the US, UK, Canada, France, Australia, Hungary, Malaysia, Pakistan,
Greece, Egypt and Costa Rica. His current projects include an annual
“Asian Youth Forum” (AYF) which brings together EFL students from
countries such as Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines
for workshops promoting international understanding through the medium
of English as an Asian language. He has worked, lived or traveled in 50
countries and speaks nine languages. For more information, see his
website: <
www.kipcates.com>
Dr Judy Noguchi
Judy Noguchi teaches and conducts research on
English for Specific Purposes (ESP). She has developed the ESP
curriculum for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at
Mukogawa Women’s University. This has involved planning and teaching
courses from the undergraduate to graduate level, the development of
teaching materials and the training of adjunct instructors. She also
has developed and taught courses for graduate schools in biosciences,
engineering and medicine at national, public and private universities,
using genre analysis concepts, corpus linguistics tools and CALL
applications. She is an active member of JACET (Japan Association of
College English Teachers) and is currently Vice President of the Kansai
Chapter and Editor-in-Chief of the JACET Kansai Journal. She helped
start the ESP SIG in the Kansai Chapter and served as its first head.
She has B.A. and B.S. degrees (chemistry) from the University of
Hawaii, an M.Ed. (TESL) from Temple University Japan and a Ph.D.
(applied linguistics) from the University of Birmingham.
