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2010 Courses |
English 1
English 2
English 3
English 4 |
Pre-Seminar
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Global Literacy |
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2009 Courses |
English 1
English 2
English 3
English 4 |
Pre-Seminar
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Literacy Intro. |
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2008 Courses |
English 1
English 2
English 3 |
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Global Literacy |
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2007 Courses |
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English I
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Syllabus
English II
Syllabus
English Expression 2
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Syllabus
English Skills: Writing
Syllabus
Language & Literacy
Syllabus
Seminar 1
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Abstract
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Syllabus
Seminar 2
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Abstract
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 Finding
Forrester
(2001, Sean Connery, Rob Brown). "A moving story
of a grizzled recluse and an inner-city teenager brought
together by their shared passion for writing" (RT).
[ PG-13 ]
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Japanese |
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 Instructor's
Profile
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Education
Doctorate in Education
(Univ.
California Berkeley)
Master's in English
(San
Francisco State Univ.)
Bachelor's in Psychology
(UOP)
Sabbatical
Visiting Researcher,
Stanford Univ. School of Education
Haas
Center
Memberships
ASIA-TEFL,
AAAL,
AERA,
CCCC,
NCTE,
IRA,
JACET,
JALT,
LET, TESOL
Interest Groups
CALL, Bilingualism, Global Issues,
Materials Writing, Teacher Education, Testing & Evaluation, etc. |
GENERAL
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Dave's EFL Cafe
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Interesting
Things
for EFL
Students (by C. & L. Kelly).
MOVIES
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Movie
Trailers (CMs)
with
quizzes (by A. Johnson)
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Movie
Guides
for English
learners
include vocabulary
notes, summaries and key
sentences (by R. Weschler)
SPEECHES
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American speeches
with
audio and scripts
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Movie speeches
with audio
and scripts
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Nobel
Prize speeches
with
audio and scripts
ACADEMIC LECTURES
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Carnegie
Council
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Research Channel Org
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T-E-D
Talks
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Univ.
of Calif. TV Online
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UCB
Distinguished Teachers
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UCB
Webcasts
PRONUNCIATION & IDIOMS
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Train
Your Accent Read and
listen to a short talk and follow
the pronunciation advice.
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EZ
Slang
Listen to the conver-
sations and learn idioms.
JAPAN TODAY
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Japan
Trends Read about
what's happening in Japan.
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Japan
Echo
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Japan
Journal
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Japan Video Topics
LITERATURE & BOOKS
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Featured
Books
(NEA)
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American Writers I
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American Writers II
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Booknotes
CSPAN (Interviews
with authors)
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Book TV CSPAN (Interviews
with authors)
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Dr. Melvin R. Andrade
Professor of English Language
Education & Applied
Linguistics
Sophia Junior College, Japan |
 Watch
interviews with executive men and women on Asia
Internet TV.
Check out Harumi Torii, who is the founder of the Kids Earth Fund (KEF), a
non-profit organization that works worldwide to promote peace and
environmental conservation through the medium of children's art."
About
KEF More
interviews |
 Find
news stories
from around the world online: newspapers, news
magazines, TV news, video, and radio news. (Selected
links I compiled.) |
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Interactive
Book Reports. (15th Annual Faculty
Development Symposium on Univ.
English
Teaching, AGU, April 2008).
Slides (PDF)
Handouts (PDF)
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Content-based vs. Language-based English
Teaching in Japanese Universities: Is There
Really a Difference?
(Japan Association for
Language Teaching 33rd International
Conference. National Olympics Memorial
Youth Center, Nov. 22–25, 2007, Tokyo).
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Learning about Global Issues Through Task-based
Activities
(2nd Int'l Conf. on Task-Based Lang.
Teaching, Univ. of Hawaii,
Sept. 2007).
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Teaching Writing to
Japanese Learners of English:
Observations,
Discoveries, and Challenges.
(The 35th JACET Summer Seminar.
Kusatsu,
Japan. Aug. 21-24, 2007)
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Managing
English Use in the Classroom.
(PPT)
(14th Annual Faculty Development Symposium
on University
English Teaching, Aoyama
Gakuin University, April 7, 2007)
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A Teacher's Home Page: Teacher-Centered or
Student-Centered? (41st TESOL Annual
Convention, Seattle, USA. March 2007)
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Effectiveness of a 15-Minute Writing Sample
for
Assessing Writing Ability. (The 10th Japan
Language Testing Association
Conference,
Kyoto, Oct. 2006)
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Utilizing
the English News Sites on
the Web to
Familiarize Students with Global Issues
(World
Englishes, Nagoya, Oct. 2006)
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Autonomous Learning Through Online
Listening.
Asia TEFL, Fukuoka (Aug. 2006).
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Self-Evaluation of
Writing and Speaking
(JACET Kanto,
Waseda, June 2006) |
- I have compiled and edited the
Proceedings of the
Linguapax Asia
Second
International Symposium on
Language in Society and the Classroom.
Now
online: Click
here (pdf).
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I
served as
the
Program Chair and
gave a
presentation on
"Helping Immigrant
Students in the United States Learn English in Mainstream
Classrooms: The SIOP Approach"
at the
Linguapax
Asia Second
International
Symposium on Language in Society and the
Classroom:
Preserving Heritage and
Supporting Diversity, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, June
11, 2005.
Abstract
Power Point
References
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Annual
Faculty Development Symposium on
University
English Teaching,
April 9, 2005. Aoyama Gakuin
University, Tokyo.
I gave a presentation entitled
"Peer Revision in Academic
Writing: One Teacher’s Experience."
Summary (PDF) Power Point
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Junior College English Education Research Group,
December 11, 2004, Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College.
I gave a
presentation on
"Teaching
English Through
Content vs.
Teaching
Content
Through English."
Abstract
Power Point
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20th World Congress on
Reading,
International Reading
Association,
(IRA)
July 26-29,
2004, Manila, Philippines.
I gave a
presentation on "Dual Skills Approaches to Reading Instruction:
Reading-Writing vs. Reading-Listening vs. Reading-Speaking."
Abstract (PDF)
Power Point
OHP materials
References
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Linguapax Asia 2004 First International Symposium
on Language Diversity and
Language Ecology, April
17, 2004, United Nations University, Tokyo.
I gave a
presentation on
"Language Minorities and ESL/
Bilingual Education in
California Schools."
Abstract
Power Point
References
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The
43rd National Conference of the Japan Association for Language
Education and Technology (LET): Strategies for the Future of Foreign Language Education, August 2,
2003, Kansai Gaidai Nakamiya Campus. I co-presented a paper on "Classroom-Language Lab Integration: Handling Diversity in
Student Abilities and Interests."
Summary
Power Point
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