English Language Teaching: Current Issues and Future Prospects I Voices of Practitioner Researchers in Japan

Akira Tajino, Ph.D. (Lancaster University), Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, is currently Professor of Educational Linguistics at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan. His research interests include classroom research, EAP (English for Academic Purposes), and pedagogical grammar. He is a recipient of the JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Award for excellence in teaching (2011) and the JACET Award for excellence in academic publication (2014, 2020). He is the author/editor of over 30 books and has published more than 80 articles in academic and professional journals. His major publications include Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom: Collaboration for Innovation in ELT (Routledge, 2016), A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar: The Order of Meanings (Routledge, 2018), and A Systems Approach to Language Pedagogy (Springer Nature, 2019). He has served on the editorial panels of several journals including ELT Journal (Oxford University Press).