Sho is a Project Researcher at The University of Tokyo, where he runs a university-wide internationalisation initiative Professional and Global Educators’ Community (PAGE). As PAGE’s core mission, Sho teaches English-Medium Instruction to postgraduate students, postdocs and early-career assistant professors. He has developed UTokyo English Academia, a Massive Open Online Course on academic English (https://utokyo-ea.com/). His current research interest includes blended learning, flipped classroom, development of rubrics and peer-assessment. His background is leisure studies, and his career transition stimulates him to consider the power and hegemonic status of the English language in academia.
Dr. Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo
Webinar Coordinator
Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo obtained her Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University in 2016, and her PhD in 2019. She is currently a part-time lecturer of Faculty Development (FD) Program at Kansai University. Her research focuses on English-Medium Instruction (EMI) support at Japanese universities.
Natsuno Funada
Doctoral webinar coordinator
Natsuno is a DPhil candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Oxford, Natsuno taught Japanese and English in universities in the U.S. and Japan for four years. Her current research focuses on Japanese students’ attitudes toward English as a global language and questionnaire development. She presented her research in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan.