Dr. Annette Bradford’s research focuses on how higher education is responding to the challenges and opportunities of globalization, with a particular focus on the internationalization of Japanese higher education.

Dr. Bradford’s co-edited book English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes (Multilingual Matters, 2018) brings together diverse scholar and practitioner perspectives and is the first complete volume to examine English-medium instruction in Japan. She has also published analysis of national policy, student exchange, and faculty recruitment in addition to articles on other international issues such as intercultural competence and language learning motivation. Her keen interests in enabling students to become global citizens and promoting women’s leadership are reflected in her teaching, research, and service, including as a co-founder of the TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program.

Dr. Bradford is an Associate of Oxford EMI, Adjunct Fellow at Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus and Special Advisor for Education and Policy at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS). She is also editor for Routledge’s Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education series. She previously held positions as an associate professor at Meiji University and as Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow. She received her doctorate in Education Administration and Policy Studies at The George Washington University.

Since leaving the United Kingdom in 1998, Annette has studied and worked in Japan, the United States, Singapore, China, and Indonesia.

Annette Bradford’s Publications

Last update: April 21, 2020

Books

  • English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes (edited volume with H. Brown), Multilingual Matters, 2018.

Book Chapters

  • Internationalizing Japan’s Undergraduate Education through English-medium Instruction. In S. Dimova & J. Kling (Eds.), Integrating Content and Language in Multilingual Universities. Basel:, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.
  • Teaching Subject-content Through English: CLIL and EMI Courses in the Japanese University. In P. Wadden & C.C. Hale (Eds.), Teaching English at Japanese Universities: A New Handbook. New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 103-108. (with H. Brown)
  • Introduction: English-medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education. In A. Bradford & H. Brown (Eds.), English-medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2017, pp. xvii-xxiii (with H. Brown)
  • ROAD-MAPPING English-medium Instruction in Japan. In A. Bradford & H. Brown (Eds.), English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2017, pp. 3-13 (with H. Brown)
  • Final thoughts: Have We Seen this Before? The Information Technology Parallel. In A. Bradford & H. Brown (Eds.), English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2017, pp. 283-288 (with H. Brown)

Articles

  • It’s Not all About English! The Problem of Language Foregrounding in English-medium Programmes in Japan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(8), 2019, pp. 707-720.
  • Expanding Interests: Report on the Plenary Panel. Pan SIG Journal 2017, 2018, pp. 234-240. (with T. McIlroy, T. Aoyama, N. Naganuma & N. Ozeki)
  • Undergraduate English-medium Instruction in Japan: Policy and implementation. Humanities and Social Sciences Bulletin Meiji University [人文科学論集], No. 64, 2018, pp. 65-76.
  • English-medium Instruction and the Information Technology Parallel in Japanese Higher Education. International Higher Education, 92(Winter), 2018, pp. 24-25 (with H. Brown)
  • EMI, CLIL, & CBI: Differing Approaches and Goals. In P. Clements, A. Krause, & H. Brown (Eds.), Transformation in Language Education, Tokyo: JALT, 2017, pp. 1-7. (with H. Brown)
  • Barriers to Japanese Student Mobility. The Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University, No. 523, 2017, pp. 99-118.
  • The US-Japan Alliance: The Keystone for a Regional Higher Education Cooperative Architecture, In B. Glosserman, J. Gardner, & S. Henriet (Eds.), The US-Japan Partnership as a Regional Problem-Solving Mechanism. Issues & Insights, Hawaii: Pacific Forum CSIS, 2016, 16(13) pp. 1-2.
  • Teaching Content Through the Medium of English: Faculty Perspectives, P. Clements, A. Krause, & H. Brown (Eds.), Focus on the Learner, Tokyo: JALT, 2016, pp. 433-438.
  • Toward a Typology of Implementation Challenges Facing English-medium Instruction in Higher Education: Evidence from Japan, Journal of Studies in International Education, 20(4), 2016, pp. 339-356.
  • Changing Trends in Japanese Students Studying Abroad, International Higher Education, 83, Special Issue 2015, pp.22-23.
  • Japanese Student Perspectives Towards Study Abroad, The Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University, No. 510, 2015, pp.107-125.
  • Womenomics: Solution for Japan’s Decline? (with Kiyota, T, et al.)
    PacNet 8, Pacific Forum CSIS, January 27, 2015.
  • Abeducation: New Opportunity for US-Japan Ties?
    The Diplomat, July 29, 2013.
  • English-medium Degree Programs in Japanese Universities: Learning from the European Experience, Asian Education and Development Studies, 2(3), 2013, pp.225-240.
  • Challenges in Adopting English-taught Degree Programs, International Higher Education, 69(Fall), 2012, pp.8-10.
  • Develop Cross-cultural Competence (with J.F. Bradford), U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 134(3), 2008, pp.78-79.
  • Language, Society and the New Englishes: Implications for the Second Language Classroom, The Bulletin of Yokohama City University Humanities, 59(3) 2008, pp.99-119.
  • Motivational Orientations in Under-researched FLL Contexts: Findings from Indonesia, RELC Journal, 38(3), 2007, pp.302-323.

Reviews

  • Review of the Book: International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk, by Robert W. Aspinall (2013), JALT Journal, 37(1), 2015, pp.59-62.
  • Review of the Book: Tips for Teaching Culture: Practical Approaches to Intercultural Communication by A. C. Wintergerst & J. McVeigh (2011), InterCom: The Newsletter of the Intercultural Communication Interest Section, TESOL International.
  • Review of the Book Chapter: The Need to Understand ESL Students’ Native Language Writing Experiences, by Y. R. Dong (2001), Glau G. R. & Duttagupta, C. (Eds.), The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing (3rd ed.), Boston: Bedford, 2010, pp.138-139.