Paul is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical English at Nara Medical University (Nara, Japan), where he has been working since 2016. Paul has a law degree and an arts degree from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and a master’s degree in applied linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester (UK). He is currently a PhD candidate at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies. Paul's primary research interests are in second language vocabulary acquisition, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), English for specific purposes (ESP), and learner motivation. When he is not teaching or researching, he can be found jogging or cycling around the Kita-ku area in Osaka, eating out at one of Fukushima’s fabulous restaurants, or rocking with his band ‘The Ballbreakers’ somewhere in Osaka. Paul also loves travelling, and isn’t far away from achieving his goal of visiting all 47 Japanese prefectures (38 so far!).

Yu Kanazawa, Ph.D. (Twitter: @knzw783) is an assistant professor at the School of International Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan., where he works as the extensive reading coordinator. He is also the project leader and the coordinator of the Fundamental Theory SIG, The Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (LET), Kansai Chapter. His research interests include emotion theories (such as Emotion-Involved Processing), cognitive psychology, foreign language pedagogy, to name a few.