Japanese EFL teachers publishing academic research in English: reflections and advice from successful authors

For busy native speaker (NS) EFL instructors, conducting, writing, and publishing academic research in English can be a difficult task. For non-native speaker (NNS) instructors seeking to share their interests and insights in English, this challenge is all the more immense given the language barriers involved. Nevertheless, many NNS instructors do manage to conduct and publish such research each year. In order to better understand how this is accomplished and to support and encourage such efforts in general, five NNS EFL teachers were interviewed and asked to reflect on their experiences of successfully writing and publishing an ELT-related article in English. Their insights provide practical guidance and inspiration to NNS instructors hoping to publish English academic research and develop into more active, efficacious teacher-researchers.