Research field (2)：
Foreign language education
, Literature - General
Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：
2021 - 2025 Developing foreign language literature education with CLIL pedagogy and CEFR
Papers (10)：
Tara McIlroy, Jennifer Igawa, Bethany Lacy, John Maune. Readings From Students, Demos From Teachers: LiLT SIG Forum. JALT Postconference Publication - Issue 2022.1; August 2023. 2023. 2022. 1. 236-236
McIlroy, T, Decker, A, Kubokawa, J. M, Maloney, I, Tu, L, Villanueva, C. Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Literature in Language Teaching Forum. JALT Post conference publication. 2022. 143-151
Tara McIlroy, Junko Takefuta. An attempt to teach presentation online using student-centered activities. Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chiba University. 2022. 145-170
Tara McIlroy. Review of Literature for Young Adults: Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers. Read-Voc Newsletter (TESOL International Vocabulary and Reading SIG). 2021
Luke Draper, Mary Hillis, Tara McIlroy. Creative Writing in Language Teaching Contexts. The Journal of Literature in Language Teaching. 2021
Teaching Culturally Relevant Literature: Perspectives From Japan
Palgrave 2024
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go with Trainee Teachers in Japan. In C. Ludwig & E. Shipley (Eds.), Mapping the Imaginative: Teaching Fantasy and Science Fiction in the EFL Literature Classroom (Volume 2) (pp.203-222). Winter.
Winter 2020
EFL Learners Reading and Discussing Poems in English
Cambridge 2019
Lectures and oral presentations (5)：
Literary competences in a tertiary setting: Reflecting on a CLIL and CEFR-based literature course
(Thailand TESOL International Conference 2024 2024)
Creating discipline-specific word lists for an EMI literature course
(Vocab@VIC 2024 2023)
Digital short fiction and language learning: Insights from a CLIL course in Japan
(Diversity of Voices: A Global Storytelling History Conference, Singapore 2023)
English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and Literature Curriculum Design
(JALT International Conference 2022)
Literature as content: Insights from a university curriculum development project
(World CLIL, Hague. Netherlands 2022)
Professional career (4)：
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics (University of Birmingham, UK)
Master of Applied Linguistics (Awarded with Merit) (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ)
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (English) (Bristol University, UK)
Master of Arts (undergraduate) (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Work history (3)：
2020/04 - 現在 Rikkyo University Center for Foreign Language Education and Research Associate Professor
2016/04 - 2020/03 Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies Associate Professor
2009/04 - 2016/03 Kanda University of International Studies English Language Institute Lecturer
Association Membership(s) (3)：
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)
, Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) (U.K.)
, THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING
