October 31, 2025 to November 2, 2025
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター
Asia/Tokyo timezone

From Concept to Scale: Waseda’s CEFR-based program design

Nov 1, 2025, 2:30 PM
30m
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

3-1 Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya, Tokyo 151-0052 / 〒151-0052 東京都渋谷区代々木神園町3-1

Speaker

Michael Balderi (Waseda University Academic Solutions)

Description

Explore the process behind the large-scale implementation of the Talk textbooks for Tutorial English, an accredited course at Waseda University, designed with the aim of improving students' communicative competence. The session offers practical insights on the development of a notional, Can-do-based syllabus (A1 – C2 levels), presenting the challenges associated with adapting the framework to a Japanese classroom while demonstrating how CEFR alignment can help promote instructional consistency and course validity, regardless of the institutional setting.

Summary

Explore the process behind the large-scale implementation of the Talk textbooks for Tutorial English, an accredited course at Waseda University, designed with the aim of improving students' communicative competence. The session offers practical insights on the development of a notional, Can-do-based syllabus, presenting the challenges associated with adapting the framework to a Japanese classroom while demonstrating how CEFR alignment can help promote instructional consistency and course validity, regardless of the institutional setting.

Teaching Context College and university education

Authors

Michael Balderi (Waseda University Academic Solutions) Tachibana Takaaki

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