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Fergus O’Dwyer currently teaches at Osaka University. His interests
include classroom decision making and negotiation, culturalconceptualisations, Dublin and Irish English, the European Language
Portfolio, and the pedagogy of introducing World Englishes. He iscoordinator of the Framework & Language Portfolio Special Interest
Group (FLP SIG) within JALT. Email: fodwyerj@gmail.com.

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Appendix A
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