Poster Summary
Medical Vocabulary and terminology can be difficult for medical students. When working in a hospital, it might be difficult to understand what each department or ward is about. To assist students with these problems, a game was created by the author to help students and learn about different parts of the hospital. This poster presentation will go over the lesson plan, and...
In this poster, a method for teaching vocabulary where students create their own vocabulary tests is explored. Previous research by Owens and Reed (2017) laid the theoretical foundation for this approach. Other recent studies, such as Patterson (2016), suggest that involving students in the test-creation process enhances motivation and possibly word retention. Additionally, recently developed...
The research presented in the poster aimed to evaluate five university-level EAP courses in an Indonesia institution, focusing on what cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political arrangements constraining and/or enabling the successful practices of EAP teaching and learning in the institution, using the framework of Practice Architectures (Kemmis, 2019), through thematic...
This poster presentation shows the process of making a textbook for inbound tourism. The local people around the international cruise ship terminal in Shimizu struggle with English needed for visiting passengers and crews. To solve this problem, seventy-six Tokai University students interviewed local people at the terminal and analyzed and categorized their needs. The textbook is the result...
As problem solving is an integral part of many professional and academic fields, “problem-solution” is a commonly taught rhetorical structure in English for academic purposes courses (Sarangi & Roberts, 1999). However, textbooks that feature problem-solution often neglect to provide a systematic account of the core vocabulary and how it is used (e.g. Koester et al., 2012, Swales & Feak, 2004)....
Vocabulary knowledge is a strong predictor of reading proficiency (Dong, 2020), and morphological knowledge, including affixes, is particularly critical in English for the pharmaceutical sciences because a significant portion of medical terminology is derived from Greek and Latin, especially because their L1 is Japanese, which poses a handicap to mastering medical terminology because many...
Library practices in schools exert significant influence on students’ learning attitude and behavior. This paper explores the existing situation of library practices in community and institutional schools of Nepal. Despite a number of options to educate students in school from library-use, library provision and its existing practices in community and institutional schools in Nepal are still...
This poster explores the use of AI-driven feedback tools in university writing classrooms to enhance dialogical writing skills. It highlights how AWE can complement traditional methods by providing immediate insights into writing. Recent studies point to the potential of AI-powered AWE to help students improve writing in terms of content, organization, and logic. A step-by-step guide...
As international business becomes inevitable, Japanese professionals face challenges due to limited foreign language skills. However, they are left to self-learn these skills, because of reduced funding for overall employee empowerment since 2009. I present some of the challenges and struggles faced by working adults who self-learn business English skills, drawing on data from my case study,...
Innovative material development specifically for medical university students in ESP courses will be presented on this poster. It emphasizes developing interesting and useful learning activities that meet the particular language requirements of medical students, thereby improving their academic and professional communication abilities.
Email Address: Rachel.Patterson@ilscedu.com
Name: Rachel Patterson
Affiliation: Kindai University
Poster Title: Enhancing Students' Spoken English for Study Abroad through Teacher-Created Dialogs
Poster Summary: This poster explores a collection of teacher-created dialogues designed to propel university students towards fluency in everyday North American English. Tailored specifically...
When introducing tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) into the university EFL class, scaffolding is often needed. This paper discusses the use of a closed-style “choose your own adventure” story game to help students transition into a more typical open-style TRPG. Students start by making simple binary decisions with prescribed results, then discuss alternative actions their character could...
This poster presentation will (1) explain the differences between the ESP genre approach and the rhetorical genre approach (RGS), (2) point out potential pitfalls of a solely ESP genre-based approach, (3) provide the major tenets of the RGS, (3) highlight particularly relevant concepts for teaching research genres to graduate students in their disciplines, and (4) suggest ways to strengthen an...
This poster presents a guide to specialized mini-corpus building for EFL science and engineering students at a Japanese university. Students collect online language samples to create a specialized mini-corpus focused on a shared research topic, such as environmental sustainability. Together, the teacher and students unanimously decide which words or phrases to investigate, then use the...
This poster investigates effective teaching of genre-based reading and writing courses in universities courses and its impact on student empowerment.
The Foundational Literacies course exposes students to a variety of genres, all of which will be important in their future lives, such as information reports, academic essays, emails (especially formal emails to teachers/future employers),...
