Gene Thompson

Associate Professor, Department of Global Business · Rikkyo University · company speakers →

Gene Thompson has been working in language education for more than 18 years. He is primarily interested in teacher and learner cognitions about language learning, content and language-integrated learning, English-medium instruction, and self-access learning. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Business at Rikkyo University, Japan. He coordinates courses in the Bilingual Business Leader Program (one of the few bilingual business degrees programs in Asia) and in the Master in International Business Program (one of the few English-medium graduate business programs in Japan). His recent work is focused on the integration of content and language learning within programs where English is used an international language. In 2018 he had two chapters published in The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching and has forthcoming publications in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and the Asian ESP Journal . He also has published about language teacher development and self-access learning in journals such as Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching and Studies in Self-Access Learning. Gene has a PhD in Education from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His PhD dissertation "Japanese high school English teachers' self-efficacy beliefs about teaching English" received an outstanding doctoral thesis award from Queensland University of Technology in 2016 and was nominated for the 2017 Australian Association for Research in Education Ray Debus Award.

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