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Atsushi Iida is a professor in the Department of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, where he teaches TESOL and Applied Linguistics. As a teacher-researcher of Second Language Writing, he has designed and taught both undergraduate and graduate students EFL Methodology, Literature in Second Language Education, Second Language Writing Research, and Qualitative Research in Foreign Language Education.

Atsushi’s research interests include second language (L2) writing, haiku poetry, literature in L2 education, and writing for scholarly publication. He is the author of the monograph, Haiku across borders: Evocative voice in second language poetry writing (Routledge, 2025) and the co-editor of the book, International perspectives on creative writing in second language education: Supporting language learners’ proficiency, identity and creative expression (Routledge, 2022). He has also published his work in quality international journals including Assessing Writing, System, Qualitative Inquiry, Scientific Study of English, Language Teaching Research, English Teaching Forum, and Asian EFL Journal. Click here for the detail of his work.

He has been involved in two research projects which are supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Research: L2 Haiku Poetry Study and Language Teacher Education Research. Click here for the detail of each project.

For more information, please see the list of publications and presentations.

Or, you may also find his work in the following sites:

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