Meet JALT2018's Featured Speakers

Joseph Shaules is a leading author and educator in language and intercultural education. He is a full professor at Juntendo University, and is the director of the Japan Intercultural Institute. Books include: Identity (Oxford University Press); Impact Issues (Pearson); The Intercultural Mind (Intercultural Press); Deep Culture (Multilingual Matters). He has lived and worked in Mexico, Japan, and France, and is proficient in English, Spanish, Japanese, French and Indonesian.  
Sandra McKay is Professor Emerita of English at San Francisco State University. Her main areas of work and research are second language teacher education and sociolinguistics (with a focus on English as an international language). Her books include Sociolinguistics and Language Education (edited with Nancy Hornberger, 2010, Multilingual Matters) and Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts around the World (with J.D. Brown, 2016, Routledge).  She has also published widely in international journals. 
Louise Haynes has had a long-term teaching and activist presence in Japan, and has done valuable work in diverse areas such as AIDS awareness and prevention, and the teaching of controversial topics. Her current research interests are content analysis of protest music during the Spanish Civil War and music worldwide that deals with social issues. She has an MScTESOL and an MBA from Anaheim University. She is currently a vice-director of the language program at Nagoya City University.
Dat Bao is a senior lecturer in Monash University, Australia. Previously he has worked with universities in the USA, UK, Thailand, and Singapore. His expertise includes curriculum design, intercultural communication, materials development, creative pedagogy and visual pedagogy in language education. He is the author of Understanding Silence and Reticence: Nonverbal Participation in Second Language Acquisition (Bloomsbury, 2014) & Creativity and Innovations in ELT Material Development: Looking beyond the Current Design (Multilingual Matters, 2018).
Justin Harris is an associate professor at Kindai University in Osaka. He is a founding member and coordinator of the JALT TBL SIG and has worked as Conference Chair for four TBLT in Asia conferences. Justin’s other main research interest is English as a Lingua Franca, especially regarding the continued prevalence of the Native Speaker Model in Japan. He combined these interests when cowriting the new OnTask textbook series for ABAX.
John Hughes is an award-winning ELT author with over 30 titles. His books for National Geographic Learning include the course series Life, Practical Grammar, Success with BEC Vantage and Total Business. In his 25-year career, he has taught students from all over the world and managed departments of Business English and Teacher Training. He has also lectured on ELT materials writing at Oxford University. His blog is www.elteachertrainer.com.