Recent Happenings
Updates, Presentations & Events
APAIE 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I recently presented at the March 2019 APAIE conference in KL and had a wonderful time finding out more about current internationalization trends in the Asia Pacific.
Talk for Oxford EMI Training
March 2019
On 15th March, I was honoured to give a talk about EMI in Japan for EMI faculty trainees at International Christian University
ICLHE Japan Symposium
Gakushuin University, Tokyo
We held our first Japan-based ICLHE (Integrated Content and Language in Higher Education) symposium on 26th January, 2019. It was a fun afternoon of stimulating discussion and top-class presentations. And, it was great working with Howard Brown and Ted O-'Neill to organise the event.
New Article
My most recent article-It's not all about English! The problem of language foregrounding in English-medium programmes in Japan-was published on 30th November. Download a free copy here.
Just Out!
October 2018
Teaching English at Japanese Universities: A New Handbook is just out! Order it here. I am honoured to have contributed to a volume with so many leading English language educators
Written by leading English-language educators in Japan, this Handbook provides an in-depth guide for the new generation of teachers at Japanese universities. In clear, accessible prose, it offers practical and detailed advice on effective classroom pedagogy, student motivation, learning styles, classroom culture, national language policy, career opportunities, departmental politics, administrative mindset, and institutional identity. Its four sections—The setting, The courses, The classroom, and The workplace—examine issues faced by university language teachers as well as challenges confronted by the increasing number of scholars teaching English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) courses. Firmly grounded in contemporary teaching method and theory, the Handbook’s 23 chapters also acknowledge the influence of diverse movements such as World Englishes, global issues, gender, and positive psychology. Its three appendices contain information on organizations, books, journals, and websites particularly useful for Japanese university educators; explanation of types and rankings of schools; ways to learn more about individual institutions for job-hunting; and detailed information on the structure (and Japanese titles) of faculty and non-teaching staff at the typical university. This Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching, or aspiring to teach, at a Japanese university.
New book series on EMI
Are you interested in writing about English-medium instruction?
Howard Brown from the University of Niigata Prefecture and I are editing a new book series for Routledge. Details can be found here.
- The Sixth Annual Conference on Global Higher Education
at Lakeland University Japan8th June 2019
NAFSA 2019 Annual Conference & Expo, Washington, DC.| 26th-31st May 2019
ICLHE 2019, Universitat Jaume 1 in Castellón (Spain), 15th-18th October 2019
The 55th JCES Annual Conference, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 7th-9th June 2019
Meiji University
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