Stephen Howes

In a rapidly globalizing world, one of the important roles of foreign language education is to enhance students’ ability to “to communicate effectively in cross-cultural situations and to relate appropriately […]

Presenter: Mary Nobuoka Many people think that children raised by parents who speak two or more languages will naturally become bilingual or multilingual. However, in a monolingual country, this is […]

Presentations 2.0: Modern Presentation Skills for the Digital Age by Rab Paterson May 27th, 2018 2 to 4:30PM No matter where people work, in academia, business, or the media, there […]

In our roles as educators, how can we best engage and motivate our students and support them in their linguistic journeys? Donnery’s workshop demonstrated how the use of drama-based activities […]

In this workshop, led by Kevin Ryan, attendees looked at developing student-led small group discussions of student-selected and developed video content. Students choose videos to develop into lessons online for […]

Culture influences the way we think and behave; much of what we think of as “common sense” is governed by culture. As a result, to communicate effectively in a foreign […]

There is a growing demand for high school students to possess not only adequate skills in the receptive skills of reading and listening, but also the productive skills of speaking […]

Most Japanese secondary schools have had difficulty implementing the communicative methods of English instruction endorsed by MEXT. This presentation offered an overview of the literature which has explored these difficulties, […]