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Chapter 12: A Teacher’s Journey From Japanese to TESOL to Housewife to Something Else Entirely by Quenby Aoki

Abstract
Quenby Aoki explores various strands of her life, isolating the major transition points in the larger context of her teacher’s narrative. The author describes her transformation from professional to mother and “housewife” and her integration back into the life of an academic.

About the Contributor
Quenby Hoffman Aoki (MS Education) is an Associate Lecturer at Seikei University in Tokyo. She holds degrees from Georgetown University (Japanese Language) and California State University (Education/ TESOL) and has taught at the tertiary level in Japan since the 1990’s. Her research interests include intersectional gender, race, and social class issues, language through literature, CLIL/ Content-based Instruction, fluency, and the writing process. She has spent much of her life scribbling in various notebooks and regularly bares her soul and makes a fool of herself at local open-mic poetry events.

Citation
Aoki, Q.(2020).  A Teacher’s journey from Japanese to TESOL to housewife to something else entirely. In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter​ (pp. 157-167). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/12

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​Information About the Book

Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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