Teaching English at Japanese Universities

A New Handbook
Herausgeber: Wadden, Paul; Hale, Chris Carl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook providers a refreshed and updated reference work for the next generation of teachers of English at Japanese universities. This guide expands the readership beyond the English language teachers to encompass the growing number of content-specific educators coming to, and already in, Japan who teach the EMI and CLIL courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138550384
• ISBN-10: 1138550388
• Artikelnr.: 69899803

Autorenporträt

Paul Wadden, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the English for Liberal Arts Program of International Christian University, Tokyo. The editor of the original A Handbook for Teaching English at Japanese Colleges and Universities (Oxford University Press, 1993), he is the author of articles on language teaching and academic writing appearing in TESOL Quarterly, ELT Journal, RELC Journal, College Literature, Composition Studies and many other journals; articles on culture, politics, and education in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Japan Times; and more than 50 textbooks. He has taught in Japanese universities for the past 30 years. Chris Carl Hale, EdD, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University, Japan and formerly the Academic Director of the Tokyo Center of the New York University (NYU) School of Professional Studies (SPS). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses related to language acquisition and teacher training in the United States and in Japan for over 20 years at universities such as City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College, Teachers College Columbia University, and International Christian University, Tokyo. His articles have appeared in Language Testing in Asia, TESOL International, and Teachers College Columbia University Journal of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. He is also an avid DJ and techno music producer.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Setting 1. The Landscape of Japanese Higher Education: An
Introduction (Chris Carl Hale and Paul Wadden) 2. Making a Career of
University Teaching in Japan: Getting (and Keeping) a Full-Time Job
(Jenifer Larson-Hall and Jeffrey Stewart) 3. The Ronin Teacher: Making a
Living as a Full-Time Part-Timer at Japanese Universities (Chrystabel
Butler) 4. The Chrysanthemum Maze: Understanding Your Colleagues in the
Japanese University (Curtis Kelly and Nobuhiro Adachi) Part II: The Courses
5. Tearing Down the Wall of Silence: Constructing the English Conversation
Class at a Japanese University (John Wiltshier and Marc Helgesen) 6. The
Blind Spots of Reading: Switching on Lights in the Japanese University
Classroom (Gordon Myskow, Paul R. Underwood, and Rob Waring) 7. Mandatory
'Sentencing': Breaking Loose in the Japanese University Writing Classroom
(Gordon Myskow) 8. Real World Listening in the Japanese University
Classroom (Chris Carl Hale) 9. Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in the
Japanese University (Paul Wadden, Charles Browne, and Paul Nation) 10.
Teaching Presentation in the Japanese University (Curtis Kelly) 11.
Teaching Subject-Content through English: CLIL and EMI Courses in the
Japanese University (Howard Brown and Annette Bradford) 12. Using
Technology in the Japanese University Classroom (and Beyond) (Dan Ferreira
and Joachim Castellano) 13. Homework in the Japanese University Classroom:
Getting Students to Do It (and then Evaluating their Performance) (Thomas
N. Robb) Part III: The Classroom 14. Nails that (Still) Don't Stick Up:
Revisiting the Enigma of the Japanese College Classroom (Fred E. Anderson)
15. Creating Engagement and Motivation in the Japanese University Language
Classroom (Bill Snyder) 16. The Japanese Student and the University English
Teacher (Donna T. Fujimoto) 17. English Language Policy in Japan and the
Ministry of Education: Emphasis, Trends, and Changes that Affect Higher
Education (Paul R. Underwood and Gregory Paul Glasgow) Part IV: The
Workplace 18. "He said, She said": Female and Male Dynamics in Japanese
Universities (Diane Hawley Nagatomo and Melodie Cook) 19. The Japanese
University Teacher of English (Asako Takaesu and Mikiko Sudo) 20. Beyond
the Native Speaker Fallacy: Internationalizing English Language Teaching at
Japanese Universities (Tiina Matikainen) 21. Walk a Mile in The Shoes of
the Non-Japanese Administrator (Stephen M. Ryan and Peter McCagg) 22.
Conflicts, Contracts, Rights, and Solidarity: The Japanese University
Workplace from a Labor Perspective (Gerome Rothman) 23. Navigating the
Chrysanthemum Maze: Off-hand Advice on How to Tiptoe through the Minefield
of the Japanese University (Curtis Kelly and Charles Browne)