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Morning poster presentations
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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...
