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Prof. Amanda Gillis-Furutaka (Kyoto Sangyo University), Jennifer Green (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University)02/02/2024, 18:00Practice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）
We will look at explanations from brain science about where profanity is processed and stored in the brain, to what extent we can control our production of expletives, and the emotional causes and effects of the use of profanity. We will then turn our attention to our role as educators and discuss whether we should broach this topic with students when they are bound to come across it and what...
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03/02/2024, 09:30
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03/02/2024, 09:30
Similar to the traditional foreign language classroom, self-access language learning, though different in its approach, is also centered around the basic process of learning and acquiring proficiency in an L2. From the point of view of the learner, in either of the two environments, L2 becomes the focus of the process, which in the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) context translates...
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03/02/2024, 09:30Language Teaching and Brain ScienceResearch-oriented presentation (25 minutes) 研究や論文発表（２５分）
The benefits of reading aloud have been thoroughly examined and supported by research (Anderson et al., 2003; Isik, 2016; Phillips, 2000; Shickedanz & Collins, 2012; Suggate et al., 2013). Reading aloud is regarded as a positive foundation for children's lives and is indicative of academic and social success (Gurdon, 2019). This case study delves into the cognitive processes of children while...
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03/02/2024, 10:05
This presentation details an innovative digital storytelling project and its effect on speaking anxiety among Sophomore Landscape Architecture students at a Taiwanese university, undertaken in partnership with an Academic English Course at a Japanese university. The study focused on whether digital storytelling could serve as an effective pedagogical tool to reduce speaking anxiety in an...
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03/02/2024, 10:05Research-oriented presentation (25 minutes) 研究や論文発表（２５分）
In tertiary English language education in Japan, the pursuit of academic excellence often overshadows critical emotional and relational factors for effective learning. Our ongoing research delves into the complexities faced by non-national scholar-practitioner faculty members in Japan, focusing on primary insights into well-being and support. Our collaborative model integrates expertise in...
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03/02/2024, 10:05
This research presentation addresses the linguistic and neural change of one’s first language during second language learning in the second language environment. The participants of the research are three English native speakers (from the U.S. and the U.K.) who came to Japan to study and will stay here for a year. The research uses a neuroimaging technique, fNIRS(functional Near-Infrared...
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03/02/2024, 10:40Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）
Have you ever wondered how the content you’re teaching in class makes its way into your students’ brains? Well, that journey begins from their eyes and ears, which send information to their Sensory Memory. From there, the salient bit of sensory input–ideally that new content being taught–makes its way to a student’s Working Memory. After a couple of minutes, that new information finishes its...
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03/02/2024, 10:41Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）
Supported by research findings, the Brain-friendly Study Skills workshop proposes a bottom-up and health-conscious approach to enhance learning productivity for you and your students. Bottom-up in order to work on learning problems at the root causes, and health-conscious because, on top of the obvious health benefit to be expected, healthy lifestyles are often more productive. The workshop...
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03/02/2024, 10:41Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）
We now have an understanding of how the brain does language. Embodiment is the key, meaning that almost all meaning comes from the way your brain records experiences as sensory routines. Language too is stored in motor-sensory models. If you hear the expression coffee-colored dog, you not only activate sensory routines for the sight and smell of a dog, but for coffee too, and more. This view...
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Glenn Magee (Aichi Prefectural University)03/02/2024, 11:35
Focusing solely on academic achievement in teaching can lead to missing out on important emotional and relational factors that significantly impact learning. These factors are always present in the classroom and are crucial to students' progress. How educators engage with students can affect the neurological and human connections that influence teaching, which can either facilitate or impede...
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03/02/2024, 13:35
Global companies in Japan require students to possess both 21st-century skills and basic English skills. This practice-focused presentation will show how English can be integrated into IoT education for Computer Science and engineering students in a Japanese university.
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Project-based learning or CLIL approaches are increasingly popular in Japan.
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03/02/2024, 13:35
Learners’ successful application of their learning to later practical situations is called transfer of learning. Considering transfer of learning as one of the fundamental goals in education, educational psychologists started to examine what triggers this phenomenon more than a century ago. The central theory at that time was called the identical element theory, which claims that transfer is...
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03/02/2024, 13:35Language Teaching and Brain ScienceResearch-oriented presentation (25 minutes) 研究や論文発表（２５分）
It can be easy for teachers to assume that if they have the correct method, correct approach, and motivated students that learning will take place. However, even with all these things in place, sometimes the most dedicated of learners may show signs of demotivation or slow progress. The core of this problem may be because of both hard-wired cognitive limitations common to all learners and...
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03/02/2024, 14:10
Games and kinesthetic learning can make any lesson’s content more accessible to students. For example, visualizing the differences between DNA and RNA with a drawing or using beads to represent changes in population genetics. The presenter will share four different activities from a CLIL course teaching evolution concepts in English for 3rd and 4th year university learners and participants...
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03/02/2024, 14:10Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused presentation (25 minutes) 実践報告発表（２５分）
Navigating the intricate landscape of motivation in English language learning, cultivating a positive perception emerges as a fundamental factor. An exploration of this interplay through the dopaminergic system highlights that positive reinforcement not only activates neural pathways but also instigates behavioral adjustments and facilitates memory formation. Conversely, a lack of perceived...
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03/02/2024, 14:10
Given that attention is an internal process that is hard to observe and the same term “attention” is used to refer to a wide range of experiences and situations, defining the concept of readerly attention poses even more challenges to scholars and educators. Humanities and Social Science researchers have been exploring the mechanisms of readers’ attention by exposing them to narratives and...
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03/02/2024, 14:35
This presentation will describe how surveys were utilized during the development of a university self-access language learning center. Although we focus on self-access, we hope the insights from the survey will be of interest to teachers focused on classroom contexts.
The center, opened in 2021, provides opportunities for L2 use (English, Spanish and Chinese), cross-cultural interactions,...
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03/02/2024, 14:35
Drilling, as a language-learning activity, has fallen out of favor over the past few decades, but it is finding support in Skills Acquisition Theory (DeKeyser, 2007) literature and as falling within Butzkamm and Caldwell’s (2009) generative principle of language development.
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When drilling was last in vogue, modern technologies and language learning tools had not been developed. Now, tools... -
03/02/2024, 14:35
This poster consists of the rationale, methodology, results, and discussion of an exploratory study with the purpose of focusing the potential scope of research possibilities regarding the use of conversation strategies in first-year English Communication, or EC1, courses at Sojo University. Conversation strategies have been included as a component of the EC1 and 2 curriculum in part since...
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03/02/2024, 14:35
Wood et al. (1976) used the term “scaffolding” to describe the support given by an adult to a child. Since then, the term has also been used to describe support offered to a novice by a more knowledgeable other. Wood et al. specified scaffolding as consisting of six functions: recruitment, reduction in degrees of freedom, direction maintenance, marking critical features, frustration control,...
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03/02/2024, 14:35
The growing popularity of social media sites, coupled with the omnipresence of digital devices, means that most Japanese university English language learners (ELLs) process a tremendous amount of digital stimuli on a daily basis. Thus, it is important that English as an international language (EIL) educators put more emphasis on cultivating students’ critical thinking skills. Creating a...
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03/02/2024, 14:35
As approaches to language teaching based on interaction between learners (e.g., Communicative Language Teaching; Task-based Language Teaching) have become the norm in many classrooms, group and pair work have come to play a prominent role in language learning. Working in groups or pairs gives learners more opportunities to use English, share information about themselves and build rapport with...
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03/02/2024, 15:25Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused presentation (25 minutes) 実践報告発表（２５分）
Teachers generally devote themselves to various important roles that predominantly focus on student learning. All too often, students we observe show evidence of recurring self-defeating lifestyle habits that inhibit learning and long-term goal achievement. Essentially, sleepy and distracted students are less likely to effectively pay attention and remember, which are the two key factors for...
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03/02/2024, 15:25
Some teachers may have the experience of students terminating their L2 speech immediately after an allocated speaking task has been completed in minimal fashion and teachers have struggled to increase the amount of student talk beyond these minimized turns. Numerous learning-motivation studies have demonstrated that the factors behind minimized talk are language anxiety towards syntactic,...
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03/02/2024, 15:25Language Teaching and Brain SciencePractice-focused presentation (25 minutes) 実践報告発表（２５分）
How much are you sleeping each night? How about your students? Probably not enough, if you live in Japan, which ranks among the most sleep-deprived societies in the world. School schedules, after-school activities, commuting times, homework, and screen time can all contribute towards students’ (and teachers’) lack of sleep. Students face additional obstacles towards good sleep with the...
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03/02/2024, 16:00
This practice-orientated presentation addresses the problem of poor information retention in the university classroom context. In relation to tertiary education, the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) mandates that each credit acquired by the student requires that s/he complete 45 hours of study, up to 30 hours of which is spent on student-teacher contact time. The imbalance between contact...
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03/02/2024, 16:00
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03/02/2024, 16:00
Virtual Exchanges (VE) repeatedly show that they promote language acquisition through the employment of various negotiation of meaning strategies, with both synchronous and asynchronous exchanges showing similar acquisition results as face-to-face exchanges. This presentation details a short VE between approximately 400 students in Japan and Korea. Students created two Flip videos, commented...
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Research-oriented presentation (25 minutes) 研究や論文発表（２５分）
In tertiary English language education in Japan, the pursuit of academic excellence often overshadows critical emotional and relational factors for effective learning. Our ongoing research delves into the complexities faced by non-national scholar-practitioner faculty members in Japan, focusing on primary insights into well-being and support. Our collaborative model integrates expertise in...
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Enjoy the art of Sojo University students as you network and enjoy an assortment of drinks and snacks provided by Warm Hearts Coffee.
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Light drinks and snacks before the workshop
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