Department of English Liter

Pinner Richard

  (PINNER RICHARD)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Literature, Sophia University
Degree
Applied Linguisics and ELT(King's College London)
言語学・英語教育 MA(キングスカレッジロンドン)
Art and English Literature(University of Leeds)
美術 ・ 英文学 BA(リーズ大学)
Applied Linguistics and TESOL PhD(Sep, 2017, University of Warwick)

Contact information
rpinnersophia.ac.jp
Other name(s) (e.g. nickname)
Richard S Pinner
Researcher number
50742920
ORCID ID
 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7920-7765
J-GLOBAL ID
201301096499286404
researchmap Member ID
7000004643

I teach language specialist topics within the department of English literature, especially focusing on language education and teaching English as a foreign language. I also work with the graduate school of linguistics on the Master's Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language.

(Subject of research)
Authenticity and Motivation in language teaching and learning


Papers

 37

Books and Other Publications

 3
  • Pinner Richard
    Routledge, 2019
    Authenticity and motivation are very common collocates in discussions surrounding language learning. However, these two concepts have rarely been the focus of empirical inquiry, largely due to their ambiguity and the difficulty of gaining evidence-based insights into the complex nature of their relationship. Similarly, it is commonly acknowledged that teacher motivation is closely linked with student motivation, yet again this idea is hard to research and difficult to examine. This inquiry utilises practitioner research and autoethnography in order to gain rich insights into these phenomena from inside the classroom.
  • Pinner Richard
    Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 (ISBN: 9783030020798)
    This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of participants from distant geographical locations (either synchronously or asynchronously) affects our face to face interactions. Presenting research data from several years of autoethnographic observation, this balanced work reveals the consequences, both positive and negative, of technology-dependent forms of discourse. In doing so, this sociolinguistic perspective fills a gap in the current literature and indicates possible future directions for the study of augmented communication. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and digital humanities.
  • Pinner Richard
    Multilingual Matters, Jun 15, 2016
    This book examines the concept of authentic English in today’s world, where cultures are in constant interaction and the English language works as a binding agent for many cross-cultural exchanges. It offers a comprehensive review of decades of debate around authenticity in language teaching and learning and attempts to synthesise the complexities by presenting them as a continuum. This continuum builds on the work of eminent scholars and combines them within a flexible framework that celebrates the process of interaction whilst acknowledging the complexity and individual subjectivity of authenticity. Authenticity is approached as a complex dynamic construct that can only be understood by examining it from social, individual and contextual dimensions, in relation to actual people. Authenticity is a problem not just for language acquisition but one which affects us as individuals belonging to society.

Presentations

 2
  • Richard Pinner
    Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés, Aug 31, 2017, Oxford University Press
    English is often marketed as a key to success, a bridge to the world, a gateway to the future, a door to social and economic improvement, and even as a way to make friends with people all over the world. For many, English is a second language; part of their identity and day-to-day life. However, for many more people around the world, the English language is just another compulsory school subject.
  • Richard Pinner
    16th Annual JALT PanSIG Conference, May 21, 2017, JALT

Research Projects

 1