Biography
Judy Noguchi, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Kobe Gakuin University, where she served as the first Dean of the Faculty of Global Communication. She served as Vice-President of JACET (The Japan Association of College English Teachers) from 2015 to 2017 and as President of JACET Kansai Chapter from 2010 to 2015. She has been involved in ESP since the start of her career, teaching students in science, engineering, medicine and other disciplines. She has worked on the development of teaching methods and materials for ESP as well as the building of specialized corpora for science and engineering: PERC (Professional English Research Consortium), JECPRESE (The Japanese-English Corpus of Presentations in Science and Engineering), OnCAL (The Online Corpus of Academic Lectures). Her academic degrees are B.S./B.A. (Highest Honors, Chemistry, University of Hawaii); M.Ed. (TESOL, Temple University); Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham).
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