Speaker
Junko YAMANAKA
(Aichi Gakuin Univesity)
Description
Sponsored by Pearson
This presentation demonstrates how language teachers can help students develop soft skills such as critical thinking, communication and collaboration, in their classrooms. Enhancing these soft skills — ones AI cannot readily replace — is increasingly important for students’ future lives. The presenter advocates that examining and exchanging points of view can simultaneously improve students’ engagement, communication, critical thinking and language skills. Sample materials, activities and strategies will be introduced, alongside supporting theories.
Authors
Prof.
Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
(Kyoto Sangyo University)
Junko YAMANAKA
(Aichi Gakuin Univesity)
Michiyo Mitamura
(Pearson Japan)
TAKESHI KAMIMURA
(PEARSON JAPAN)