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),...
