Martin Mielick - Discourses of Identity: Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan

works as an associate professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Meio University, Japan. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Lapland in Finland. Her research focuses on teacher education, language education, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Indigenous research methodologies. She has been learning the linguistic varieties of Ryukyuan.

is a lecturer at J. F. Oberlin University in Japan and holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo. She did her masters thesis in the same university in the field of applied linguistics yet shifted her academic focus to the field of critical applied linguistics in her PhD program, especially on migrants language acquisition.

is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Japanese Studies at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at Ca Foscari University of Venice. Before joining Ca Foscari in 2014, he taught at universities in Germany (Duisburg-Essen University) and Japan (Dokkyo University) for many years.

is a lecturer in the Education Department at Hakuoh University. He has taught in Japan for 16 years, predominantly in higher education and English conversation schools. His research interests include learner and teacher identity, communities of practice, and the English conversation school industry.

is Professor of Japanese Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition at Nanzan University. Her research interests include study-abroad students development of pragmatic competence and changes in linguistic/cultural identities and L2 speakers use of Japanese mimetics. She co-edited a volume titled Ido to Kotoba (Mobility and Language) (2018).

is Professor of Japanese Language Teacher Education and Intercultural Communication in the Department of Letters and Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Her current interests are the narrative inquiry of study/work-abroad experiences, curriculum development in border-crossing learning, and language teacher development.

is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at University of British Columbia, Canada. She has taught Japanese and English as a foreign language. Her research focuses on antiracism, critical multiculturalism, and other critical issues in language teaching and learning.

is a lecturer at Toyo University. His research interests revolve around intersectional aspects of teacher identity. His work has been published in