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About the Author

Gene Thompson is an associate professor of language and communication in the College of Business at Rikkyo University, Japan. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Education from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He also has a postgraduate diploma in Second Language Teaching and a masters in Applied Linguistics from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

His research on language learner and teacher cognitions started from his involvement as a teacher educator in Hiroshima, where he worked with pre-service elementary school teachers and consulted for city and prefectural boards of education. Gene continues to examine learner and teacher cognitions about language learning.

This is Gene’s first book. He has published in international journals such as Studies in Higher Education, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He maintains an interest in the teaching of English as an international language, and has co-authored a number of entries in the TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. He has also co-authored a chapter focused on translation fidelity for multilingual data collection and analysis in The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.