I am teaching at four different universities in Kansai area
and writing textbooks for college students.
I own 3 private language schools in Northern Japan. I teach children through to University and everything in between.
My favorites are;
Vygotsky, Wells, Cole, Kumaravadivelu, Daniels, Lantolf...
I love my library!
I love collaborative learning!
If you want to chat, drop me a line! If you want to discuss something about the MA course, I'd love to hear from you!
Abroad since summer 2006, Canadian, vegetarian, glad to meet other students and serious language teachers.
2 high schools in Osaka keep me busy with my 'International Awareness' classes, TBL with content along the lines of Education for Sustainable Development. I wanna be one of those dudes that can rattle off findings from the research using the metalanguage in a humble way, and then turn those insights onto my own classes in order to subtlety empower the learners to go out there and use their language to make the world a better place.
Originally a planning Engineer in construction from England I now teach English in a private institute in Brasilia, Brazil. I am the Mentor of the school made up 25 Brazilian teacher and I like researching on vocabulary and language learning strategies.
I have written many articles but my main work has been in lexical notebooks and the teaching of more lexical instruction/approach.
I have run a teacher association for many years and give teacher training for whever needs it such as different government agencies and local universities and publishers.
I am married and have 2 teenage chilldren so I´m no spring chicken ;). I love dancing, eating Brazilian traditional food and dancing to Brazilian music. I crazy about Liverpool Football club.
I heard about the B´ham MA after grabbing a cheeky lift of Terry Shorthall and he twisted me arm into doing the course. Well, I tell it like that anyway lol.
I'm teaching EFL Chu1 - KoIII (grades 7-12) in a private Catholic girls JSHS in Osaka. I teach Oral Communication, and in 2007 I began to teach Writing to KoII and KoIII. My main interests include:
- Extensive Reading
- Nation's 4 strands
- Positive Psychology
- TBL approach in JHS
- Bridging the gap between NTs and JTEs
- EFL Writing Syllabus
Cheers,
Steve
I am a Canadian (have lived in Japan for 11 years) currently working as a full-time English teacher at a senior high school. I am interested in global issues, cross-cultural communication,sociolinguistics and gender issues in the EFL classroom. I am really looking forward to meeting other members and exchanging ideas and opinions on what we are all studying! If anyone is interested in taking part in a once-a-week study group on Skype, please contact me!!
I've been teaching at a language school up north in Yamagata since 2003 and recently started teaching part-time at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai.
I'm currently interested in Critical Discourse Analysis (much to Terry's dismay), Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Psychology in general.
Hi,
I'm David from Ireland, now living in Korea. Been here since 2004 and got married in 2006. I teach students of all ages but only on a part time basis for now due to my wife being pregnant and my study.
I enjoy reading, movies, Taekwondo, football (soccer to some) and generally relaxing at home.
Looking forward to hearing from you guys!
Also I am the moderator for the Offical Bham Yahoo Group at http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Birmingham_CELS_MA/
Email me if you want to join the 120 plus members community!
Regards,
David
Skype ID - davidmoroney
I am a member of Tokyo/Yokohama study group and enjoying our meetings. I am writing a dissertation on Extensive Reading at the moment.
Long term resident of Japan but originally from the UK. Married but no kids. Teaching in a high school for the last few years. Just started studying in April. Bit of a shock to the system but enjoying it immensely.
Currently teaching conversational classes at Anyang University, Anyang City, South Korea. My interests include long-distance motorcycling, bicycling and outdoor recreation. I'm new to Bham and the Distance ED. concept, so I am seeking peers who can challenge/inspire me. ^^ I've taught ESL since 2002, in Mexico, China and now South Korea. I'm married and have a son, he's almost 100 days, a milestone in Korea.
Hello Everyone,
Yes. Finished. And what an experience. I got so much out of it, and for those who have just started, get the most out of the program you can. How? Well, I took most of my papers and either had them published or presented them at Local and International conferences. I got my first two published (in-house...not bad, but not referred either...) and presented on Discourse Analysis (CDA) at the Japan Society of Language Sciences, Presented on Task Motivation (Mix of modules 2 and 3) at the JALT CUE Conference and most recently (Paper 4 CDA parts of it combined with Paper 5) presented at the International Learners Autonomy Conference...and if I can do it, so can you! I got started...uh...rather late on professional development, but the motivation I got from the U of B program was truely inpiring. I met some great people on the course and this forum is one way to keep up those contacts...so thanks for getting this up and running. Currently I am researching task completion and motivation and teacher training. Personal level: into mountain biking and 1/2 marathon racing!
Currently I'm a mixed mode student. I started as a distance student living and working in Toyama, Japan in April 2006. I was working as an ALT in two public junior high schools and two elementary schools. I joined up with Steve, Mark and Anthony on skype after Hiroshima 2006. Meeting with them every week helped me stay motivated and focused. It was also an brilliant opportunity to share ideas and collaborate! I'm not sure I could have gotten through those modules without our group!
After a 9 month hiatus, I'm now on-campus doing the last three modules from Jan-April. As an on-campus student I have access to a different variety of modules. I'm currently enrolled in:
--Teacher Training
--Intercultural Communication
--English as a Global Language
--Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Teaching (auditing)
--Research Methods (required)
After April, I hope to do my dissertation research in Tamil Nadu, South India! I'm particularly interested in the English language teaching for disadvantaged students in Tamil Nadu. There is a huge discrepancy regarding who has access to English education and often this discrepancy is tied both to family economics and social background (caste/community). Even though English is considered a national language and is used in the government, media, business and tourist industry--a huge percentage of the population is not being given access to adequate English education. Some argue that inadequate second language education is supporting the continuation of caste oppression.
Thoughts or comments about my ideas and research are most welcome!
My nickname: Sista K or Shakespeare (thanks Steve!!)
www.sistak.blogspot.com
I have recently returned from a lengthy teaching in stint in East Asia. My experience had been in EFL and now I am in Canada writing my dissertation focusing on ESL contexts.
I am currently interested in literacy as a social determinant of health. My specific area of interest is federal (Canadian) strategies for the promotion of health literacy amongst new arrival to Canada particularly those with a non-English L1 background. Also interested in strategies employed by ESL learners to acquire and improve their health literacy.
Hello there, I've lived in Japan for eight years, and have taught Junior and Senior high school students, senior and adult learners in that time. My special interest lies in Sociolinguistics; especially in researching attitudes, global English, and in researching older learners.
I am a Singaporeon. I live in Yokohama-city. Just starting MA TEFL this April.Still undecided and disorganized of how to start with Module one. I am looking for books for Module one .would like to buy a secondhand one if anyone wish to sell .