Officers

ACTJ Executive Committee 2009 - 2010

Anthony Fenton - President
president@actj.org

Anthony Fenton B.P.E, B.A, TESOL Cert., M.Ed., moved to Japan in September 1991, but is regularly in Canada. He lent some support during the initial start-up of ACTJ. He has taught at junior and senior high schools, colleges, and is currently teaching and participating in several research projects at a university in Japan and Australia. He is working hard to complete his PhD in comparative education and is active in presenting his research at conferences in Canada, Japan, and Australia. His volunteer work ranges from developmental education projects in Myanmar and Vietnam to serving as review mentor and academic editor for several journals.

Vice President (Vacant)

Public Relations Chair (Vacant)

Membership Chair (Vacant)

Adam Murray - Treasurer
treasurer@actj.org

Adam Murray is originally from Port Hope, Ontario. He graduated from Brock University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1997. In the fall of 1997, he came to Japan on the working holiday program with plans to stay a year or two. Almost 10 years later, he is still happily living and working in Japan. He is now teaching at Tokai University (Shimizu campus). In the past, he was actively involved with an English conversation pilot project in public elementary and junior high schools. He also conducts workshops for JTE and elementary school homeroom teachers. He is interested in learning technologies, learner motivation and classroom dynamics.

Decha Hongthong-Publications Chair
publications@actj.org

Decha Hongthong has been living and working in Japan since 2002. He has an M.Ed (TESOL) from Temple University and has taught students in elementary, Jr. & Sr. high school, university and business professionals. Decha is currently working on improving his cooking skills and Japanese. He is also hoping to start a family in the near future. His interest include SLA, motivation and the link between brain processes and language learning.

Paul Rowan - Recording Secretary
recording@actj.org

I am from Vancouver Island but have lived and worked in quite a number of places in BC, Alta, and Sask. first as a logger and First Aid Attendant and then later as an EMT-1. When an injury ended my emergency medical career, I discover ESL instructing and decided I liked it. Once I decided that ESL could be my second career, I then embarked on the journey to obtain request education to make me a better teacher.

I first studied TESOL at VCC in Vancouver. They have an excellent program that really opened my eyes ESL/EFL L2 education. With this education, I taught at a number of English “colleges” in Vancouver, language schools here in Japan including business/corporate English teaching in the Kanto region. However, while I found that the VCC programme gave me a solid foundation to teach, it did not offer the type of information that would help me deal better with my student’s learning challenges. So, on to a Master’s degree I went and as I learnt more about L2 education, my employment prospects improved.

Currently, I hold a Masters in Applied Linguistics and I teach full-time at Yokohama City University and part-time at Waseda University. My research interests are in vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension and in task-based lessons where students can use different forms of media for their English production and self-evaluation.

Currently I am married and I have two daughters (one 6 year old and a 1½ year old). As you might expect, life is busy in my house but I will do my best for ACTJ. I look forward to meeting and talking with you all, be it at one of our functions or elsewhere.

N.P. - Webmaster
webmaster@actj.org

 

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