Clay Williams

Clay Williams is a professor in the English Language Teaching Practices program of the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University (Japan), where he has taught various graduate and undergraduate courses on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and research methodologies for linguistics and language acquisition since 2010. He received a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. His research interests include cross-script word recognition, literacy acquisition, technology integration into L2 acquisition, and the genesis of language in the human species. He is the author of Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World: Building Strategies Across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners.

Biography

Biography

Clay Williams is a professor in the English Language Teaching Practices program of the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University (Japan), where he has taught various graduate and undergraduate courses on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and research methodologies for linguistics and language acquisition since 2010. He received a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. His research interests include cross-script word recognition, literacy acquisition, technology integration into L2 acquisition, and the genesis of language in the human species. He is the author of Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World: Building Strategies Across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners.

Clay lives in Akita, Japan, with his wife and two children. In his free time, he enjoys playing music on his ever-expanding collection of guitars and other instruments.

Biography

Clay Williams is a professor in the English Language Teaching Practices program of the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University (Japan), where he has taught various graduate and undergraduate courses on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and research methodologies for linguistics and language acquisition since 2010. He received a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. His research interests include cross-script word recognition, literacy acquisition, technology integration into L2 acquisition, and the genesis of language in the human species. He is the author of Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World: Building Strategies Across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners.

Clay lives in Akita, Japan, with his wife and two children. In his free time, he enjoys playing music on his ever-expanding collection of guitars and other instruments.