Contributors
Soo im Lee (Columnist,
Language Testing)
Professor, Department of Business Administration, Ryukoku
University, Kyoto, Japan. A third generation Korean in Japan. The
author of the series of Kokuren Eigo Kentei Taisakusho (Preparation
course for the United Nationas English Test series by Sanshusha and
TOEIC preparation book by Ikubundo). A member of JLTA (The Japan
Language Testing Association).Other research interests are language and
power, human rights issues in language teaching, and cross-cultural
communication. From 2003-2004, Visiting Fellow, Center for
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University.
Visiting Researcher, The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese
Studies, Harvard University. URL: Find her research papers at http://www.biz.ryukoku.ac.jp/~lee/
Email: lee@biz.ryukoku.ac.jp
Thomas S.C. Farrell (Columnist, Professional
Development)
Associate Professor, Brock
University. Canada. Although I am now a tenured associate
professor in Canada, my latest book is really a culmination of my 25
years as a language teacher and language teacher education in Asia (18
years in South Korea and 7 years in Singapore). In South Korea I was
director of the Foreign Language Institute (as it was known then) at
Yonsei University in the early ‘80s, then a professor at Duksung
Women’s University, a professor at Korea University in the English
Education Department, and finally back to the English Department at
Yonsei University before I left for Singapore. While in Singapore, I
was at Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of
Education for seven years as a language teacher educator. I really
enjoyed my time living and teaching in Asia and in fact I am a founding
member of Asia TEFL. Recent publications include Professional
Development for Language Teachers, (2005, with Jack C. Richards,
Cambridge University Press); Reflective Practice in
Action: 80 Reflection Breaks for Busy Teachers (2004, Corwin
Press); and Reflecting
on Classroom Communication in Asia (2004, Longman). Email:
tfarrell@brocku.ca
Rob Dickey (NewsNET Managing Editor)
Assistant Professor of English, Gyeongju University School
of Foreign Languages & Tourism. Rob holds a Juris Doctor
(Law) and a Master of Public Administration, which may help account for
his research preference of Content-based Instruction. He has been
an editor for numerous ELT-related publications, both print and online.
Email: rjdickey@content-english.org