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...
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...
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.
Project-based learning or CLIL approaches are increasingly popular in Japan.
This presentation will describe how students...
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...
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...
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...
