Basic Information

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Clay WILLIAMS


Title

Professor

Nationality

UNITED STATES

E-Mail Address

E-mail address

Research Field

Psycholinguistic Processes of Reading
Literacy Development
Adapting Pedagogical Methodology to East Asian Classrooms

Degree Earned 【 display / non-display

  • PhD, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, 2010/05

Professional Career On-Campus 【 display / non-display

  • Akita International University Graduate School of Global Communication and Language English Language Teaching Practices, Professor, 2022/04 -

  • Akita International University Graduate School of Global Communication and Language English Language Teaching Practices, Associate Professor, 2015/04 - 2022/03

  • Akita International University Faculty of International Liberal Arts English for Academic Purposes Program, Associate Professor, 2015/04 - 2017/03

  • Akita International University Graduate School of Global Communication and Language English Language Teaching Practices, Assistant Professor, 2012/09 - 2015/03

  • Akita International University Faculty of International Liberal Arts English for Academic Purposes Program, Assistant Professor, 2012/09 - 2015/03

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External Career 【 display / non-display

  • University of Arizona, Department of English, , 2006/04 - 2009/03

  • National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, , 2005/04 - 2006/03

  • Ming Dao High School, Taichung, Taiwan, , 2003/04 - 2004/03

  • Ming Der Girls' High School, Taichung, Taiwan, , 2001/04 - 2003/03

  • American Language Academy, Madrid, Spain, , 2000/04 - 2001/03

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Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display

  • Asia TEFL, 2012/04 - , JAPAN

Field of Expertise 【 display / non-display

  • Cross-cultural adaptation of second language pedagogies

  • Cross-script Word Identification Processing

 

Academic Papers 【 display / non-display

  • Standing at the crossroads: Teacher dilemmas, Inspirational Stories from English Language Classrooms (5) (p.7 - ) , 2020/12, Clay Williams

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

  • Differentiation of radical processing strategies in character decoding by L2 learners of Chinese according to L1-type, Global Chinese, vol.6 (2) (p.313 - 331) , 2020/11, Clay Williams & Yuko Uchima

    Research paper (scientific journal), Multiple Authorship, Linguistics, English

  • Image use effects on young learner vocabulary acquisition, Proceedings of the 8th OPENTESOL International Conference 2020 (p.106 - 116) , 2020/07, Clay Williams & Naeko Naganuma

    Research paper (scientific journal), Multiple Authorship, Linguistics, English

  • Time-course activation of semantic primes in L2-English word recognition, Proceedings of the 8th OPENTESOL International Conference 2020 (p.370 - 382) , 2020/07, Clay Williams

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, Linguistics, English

  • Second language phonology: Are constraints psychological or biological?, KOTESOL Proceedings 2017 (p.231 - 242) , 2018/10, Clay Williams

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, Foreign language education, English

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Books 【 display / non-display

  • Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Japan, Springer Nature Singapore, 2018/03, Rachael Ruegg (Author, Editor), Clay Williams (Author, Editor)

    Scholarly Book, Joint Editing and Writing, Foreign language education, English

  • Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners, Springer Science and Business Media, 2017/03, Clay H. Williams

    Scholarly Book, Single Author, English linguistics, Foreign language education, English

  • Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World, Springer Science and Business Media, 2016/05, Clay Williams

    Scholarly Book, Single Author, English linguistics, Foreign language education, English

  • Readings for Academic Writing, Akita International University Press, 2016/03, Clay Williams, Rachael Ruegg, Naoko Araki, Mary Frances Agnello, Paul Chamness Miller, Lindsay DeWitt

    Textbook, Joint Editing and Writing, English linguistics, Foreign language education, English

Other Research Activities 【 display / non-display

  • Book Review: English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation: Exposure and Skills Development. By Karin Richter., 2021/09

    Book Review

  • Lemma/Chapter contribution: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill Online, 2015., 2015/08

    Other

  • Book Review: English-Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context: Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory. By Dimitrios Michael Hadzantonis. , 2013/08

    Book Review

  • Book Review: Begat. By David Crystal. , 2012/05

    Book Review

  • Book Review: Teaching and Researching: Reading (Second Edition). ). By William Grabe & Fredricka L. Stoller. , 2011/12

    Book Review

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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C),2017/04 - 2020/03,Concept activation by elementary school second language elarners

 

On-Campus Classes/Subjects In Charge of 【 display / non-display

  • 2024, Fall, ELT703-1_F, English Teaching Seminar III

  • 2024, Fall, ELT700-1_F, English Teaching Practicum with Seminar

  • 2024, Fall, ELT701-1_F, English Teaching Seminar I

  • 2024, Fall, ELT635-1_F, Applied Psycholinguistics for Language Teachers

  • 2024, Fall, ELT660-1_F, Introduction to Research Methods in Language Education

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Community Activities Outside University 【 display / non-display

  • Judge: Akita Prefectural Junior High School English Recitation and Speech Contest,2021/09

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  • Eiken examiner,2021/06

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  • Waseda Juku: Super English Workshop,2020/11

    Coordinated and taught 2 day workshop on English writing for select high school students

  • Eiken examiner,2020/11

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  • Eiken examiner,2020/02

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