Richard S. Pinner (PhD, University of Warwick) works for the Department of English Literature and the Graduate School of Languages & Linguistics at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has 20 years of experience as a language teacher and teacher trainer, and is the author of several research monographs, as well as having published articles in TESOL Quarterly, ELTJ, English Today and Language Teaching Research. He is particularly interested in the areas of authenticity and motivation in ELT. His website is www.uniliterate.com.