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2008
Courses |
4Oral English 2
Spring Fall
4Integrated
Eng. III (Writing)
Syllabus
Checklist
4Academic Writing (PDF)
Syllabus
Checklist |
 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." [ PG-13 ]
4Japanese |
|
 Instructor's Profile
|
Education
Doctorate in Education
(Univ. Calif.
Berkeley)
Master's in
English
(San Fran. State
Univ.)
Bachelor's in
Psychology
(UOP)
Sabbatical
Visiting Scholar, Stanford
Univ. School of Education
Haas
Center
Memberships
AAAL, AERA, CCCC,
NCTE, IRA, JACET, JALT, LET,
TESOL
Interest Groups
CALL, Bilingualism, Global Issues, Materials
Writing, Teacher Education, Testing & Evaluation,
etc. |
GENERAL
4Dave's EFL Cafe
4Interesting
Things for EFL
Students (by C. & L. Kelly).
MOVIES
4Movie
Trailers (CMs)
with
quizzes (by A. Johnson) ¹
4Movie
Guides for English
learners
include vocabulary
notes, summaries
and key
sentences (by R. Weschler)
SPEECHES
4American speeches
with
audio and scripts
X
4Movie
speeches
with audio
and scripts
X
4Nobel
Prize speeches
with
audio and some scripts
X
ACADEMIC LECTURES
¹
4Carnegie
Council
4Research Channel Org
4T-E-D
Talks
4Univ.
of Calif. TV Online
PRONUNCIATION & IDIOMS
4Train
Your Accent Read and
listen to a short talk and follow
the pronunciation advice.
X
4EZ Slang Listen to the conver-
sations and learn idioms.X
JAPAN TODAY
4Japan
Trends
4Japan
Echo
4Japan
Journal
4Japan
Video Topics
LITERATURE & BOOKS
4American Writers
I
4American Writers II
4Booknotes
CSPAN
Interviews
with authors ¹
4Book TV CSPAN
Interviews with authors
¹
4Featured
Books
(NEA) New
|
Literary
Encyclopedia |
|
"A database of biographies, profiles of works and
glossary of literary terms...Complete works lists for 5,000
writers." |
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Office:
Media Building
5F
(B-520) |
Dr. Melvin R. Andrade
Professor of
English Language
Education & Applied
Linguistics
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English -- (IE Program) -- Aoyama Gakuin
University, Sagamihara Campus, Japan |
 Watch interviews with executive men and women
(Japan Internet TV). Featured interview: "Harumi
Torii is the founder of the Kids Earth Foundation
(KEF), a non-profit organization that works
worldwide to promote peace and environmental conservation
through the medium of children's art." (26 min.) More
interviews >>> |
 Find
news stories
from around the world online: newspapers, news magazines, TV
news, video, and radio news.
(Selected links I compiled.)
|
Learn how to participate in an academic discussion.
Watch these independent learning videos from the English Language
Center at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More videos
| EAP | CILL Home ¹
"Lives
That Make A Difference"
focuses on
celebrities and everyday people from all walks of life and all age
groups who have made a positive impact on our world. To watch the
videos, click on "more..." at the end of the reading passages.
New!
¹
CBS/CNN San
Francisco. News stories and language practice:
video, audio, quizzes, vocabulary, and scripts. Good self-study
site. New! ¹
Listen to children read
stories aloud. Follow along with the script. Try
Rosalino's Dog. (Stone Soup™)X
Watch, listen, and read. Free distance learning
course to build
reading and life skills of adult English
learners in California. (Sacramento County). X
4Interactive
Book Reports (15th Annual Faculty
Development Symposium on University
English
Teaching Aoyama Gakuin
University, April
2008).
Slides
(PDF)
Handouts (PDF)
4Content-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)
4
Learning about Global Issues Through Task-based
Activities (2nd Int'l Conf. on Task-Based
Lang.
Teaching, U. of Hawaii, Sept. 2007)
4
Teaching Writing to Japanese Learners of English:
Observations, Discoveries, and Challenges.
(The 35th JACET Summer Seminar. Kusatsu,
Japan. Aug. 21-24,
2007)
4Managing
English Use in the Classroom.
(PPT)
(14th Annual Faculty Development Symposium
on University
English Teaching, Aoyama
Gakuin Univ., April 7, 2007)
4
A Teacher's Home Page: Teacher-Centered or
Student-Centered? (41st TESOL
Annual
Convention, Seattle, USA. March 2007).
4
Effectiveness of a 15-Minute Writing Sample
for Assessing Writing Ability. (The
10th Japan
Language Testing Association Conference,
Kyoto, Oct.
2006)
4
Utilizing the English News Sites on
the Web to
Familiarize Students with Global Issues
(World
Englishes, Nagoya, Oct. 2006)
4
Autonomous Learning Through Online
Listening. Asia TEFL, Fukuoka
(Aug. 2006).
4
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).
-
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
-
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
-
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
- 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
-
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 È
-
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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