Biographical note

Elizabeth Stigger is an associate professor at the Graduate and Research School at Naruto University of Education. Having extensively worked with international students, she is currently researching the way that Japanese university webpages communicate the internationalization project at Japanese universities.

Marian Wang is an associate professor at the School of Languages and Communication at Kobe University in Kobe, Japan. Her research interests focus on investigating higher education policy and practice in fostering global human resources in Japanese higher education institutions.

David Laurence is an associate professor at the Department of English Language and Culture at Chubu University in Aichi, Japan. His current research is focused on issues of transition from secondary to higher education and support for new university students in the Japanese context.

Anna Bordilovskaya is an English instructor at Rikkyo University’s Center for English Discussion. Her current research interests include foreign language acquisition and language contact between English and Japanese, especially English loanwords in Japanese and Japanese loanwords in English.