I had a couple of important things going on last week, so the blog had to take a place on the back burner. It's going to happen from time to time. On February 9 and 10 I went to Fukushima with some exchange students at my university. I lived in Fukushima for 15 years or so, so it is a place that is close to my heart. Here are a couple of things that we did and, if you have the chance to go there, you could do, too. 大内宿 (Oouchijuku)Oouchujuku used to be a place where travelers would rest in the past. Now, it is a very popular place for visitors. We were there one day before their big festival, and it was interesting to see them sculpting snow and ice into different shapes for the festival. If you go to Oouchijuku, make sure you try some of the soba there. It it famous, not only for the taste, but that you can it is with a stick of negi (shallots) instead of chopsticks. I also found a sake shop there as well. I tried a couple of different varieties, including one which had the rice polished down to 19% and fermented for 18 years. I'm sorry to say, but I wasn't a fan of this one. But at ¥30000 a bottle, it was interesting to try. The guy did have one for ¥6000 a 750 ml bottle, which was fantastic. I was very very tempted to buy it. Maybe next time. If you do manage to get to Oouchujuku, make sure you travel a little further around to To-no-hetsuri. It's an impressive place, especially in the autumn when the leaves are changing color. AizuwakamatsuThe next stop was Aizuwakamatsu. This is a must-visit place for anyone spending time in Fukushima. Aizu has fantastic ramen noodles, wonderful hot springs, and a fascinating history. We visited Tsurugajo, the main castle in Aizu. I've been to this castle half a dozen times. It's not quite as impressive as some other castles admittedly, such as Matsuyama Castle in Ehime, but it's still pretty good. Even though the story of the byakkotai is well told inside Tsurugajo, we didn't get to Iimori-yama, the place where the 19 young boys took their own lives, this time. Akabeko and RamenOne the second day of the trip, we first went to a small craft shop to paint akabeko. "Aka" means "red" and "beko" is the local word for "cow." It's said that the akabeko brings owners health, so that was good. I enjoyed painting my cow (actually, it was already red when we got there—I just had to paint the face and design the body. Yes, I also think that my cow is very cute. Although painting the cow was kind of fun, I can't really say that the hospitality of the owner was that of a five-star hotel. And, the fact that he was displaying a giant phallus on the wall of the room (see picture below if you are really interested) was also a little of putting. For lunch, we visited the Ramen-kan in Inawashiro. This was great! Although I had been there before, we gave up on eating there because of the long wait. However, it was really good. You can choose different varieties of noodles and they come to you in half sizes so you can have more flavors. Unfortunately, breakfast was also a buffet, so we were feeling rather full afterwards. If you have a chance, definitely make your way to the Ramen-kan. And don't forget to have some ice cream at the end. So there you go. Fukushima. As expected, it was an enjoyable trip. There is so much more that we could have done, but given the limited time, I think we did pretty well.
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I like ice cream. In fact, I probably like it too much. When I was a child (some may argue I still AM a child), almost every night, dinner would finish with some ice cream and jelly (and a punch in the belly, as my dad would often joke). Dessert would complete the meal and everyone would be happy. As I have studied more about teaching English, and especially motivation, I have learned that anxiety is a major factor is the reason for students not being successful in their learning. Krashen talked about the need to lower the Anxiety Filter, Horwitz has published many books on anxiety, and MacIntyre even looked at the dynamics of anxiety on a second per second scale. There have been a number of discussions about the importance of making students relaxed, but not a lot done (with evidence) on exactly how to lower anxiety. You could look from the perspective of Suggestopedia, but I’d love to do an experiment to see how ice cream can lower anxiety, thus improving students’ fluency and in turn grammatical accuracy. The experiment would be a simple pre-test-post-test design. I’d need to have two groups, of course. The Control Group would get nothing (sorry) and the Experiment Group would be given ice cream at the beginning of class. The classes themselves would be run exactly the same (perhaps using this awesome textbook). The pre-test would be the same for both groups. I would give the students a one-minute speech topic and record what they said. Fluency would be measured by the number of words they spoke in the minute. Evaluating accuracy would be a little more difficult. The possibilities would be to check the utterances for accuracy myself or using independent markers, get an online application like Grammarly to give the students’ sentences scores, or check for readability (which isn’t exactly the same as spoken grammatical accuracy). The post-test would follow the same process as the pre-test. To make the experiment valid, I guess a minimum of 6 weeks would be needed. Judging by the studies I have read, 6 weeks is the least amount of time needed for any significant change in motivation to be seen. It would then be interesting to switch the two groups around, and see if any changes occurred to the Control Group after getting the ice cream as well seeing if any changes happened to the Experiment Group once the ice cream was taken away. Like any kind of extrinsic motivation, once the reward is taken away, the drive of students is also removed (which is why I hate it when students are given rewards like stickers etc). So my hypothesis. Realistically, I don’t expect there would be much change. The idea makes sense, but I honestly don’t know how effective ice cream would be in lowering the affective filter. If it were alcohol on the other hand, there could be different results. Obviously, I couldn’t give beer to students in class, but as I guess anyone who has drunk a little alcohol before would know, after a beer or two, one starts to feel a little less anxious and a little more confident. Beer might be an idea for a study in the future, but for now it will have to be ice cream. Before anything goes ahead, though, I need to go out to the ice cream companies to see if any are willing to sponsor me. What do you think? How do you predict the results of my experiment would go? Share your ideas with a comment!
One of my goals this year is to do a monthly review of my goals set back at the beginning of the year. It will give me a chance to review the goals and adjust them if necessary. I hope do this by myself, of course. However, putting it on the public domain puts a little more pressure on myself to achieve those goals. So, here we go. Books Although I did manage to do a little writing for the book proposal at the beginning of the month, it has been incredibly busy since I got back to work. So, not much progress has been made there. I'm still keeping the same goal. Hopefully in February, I'll be able to get the proposal done. Presentations There weren't any conferences for me to present at in January, but I did apply to present at a conference in Poland. If accepted, I look forward to going to present, as well as meet Sarah Mercer, who has also done work with mindsets, and see Rod Ellis again. Sarah and Rod are two of the keynote speakers at that conference. The presentation proposal for Macau was sent away in December and I am still waiting results on that one. I am not going to present at JALTCALL this year, and am still debating about JALT National. I probably will apply for JALT national, though. Papers The paper I wrote with a co-author from Fukuoka made it past the first round. So that was good. I put a fair bit of work into explaining reasoning for statistical analyses I used as well as improving the paper based on the reviewer's comments. Hopefully, we'll get a pass on that one. Work with other research is moving slowly, but in the right direction. Private My first goal here was to be a nicer person and less grumpy. Nah, I'm still grumpy. I managed to get out and do a bit of running: 36.85 km. It's not the 70km / month needed, but I'm still happy with that. I felt I could have done more, but mainly due to ice and snow, I was quite limited in how often I could run. I will be aiming for 50km in Feb. I managed to achieve the 'Move' goal with my Apple watch, and even got a pretty blue one because I got the special goal of averaging more than 95 minutes exercise per day (I ended up averaging 102). February has given my the goal of 3481 minutes of exercise for the month. Now this proves to me that Apple is working with the i + 1 idea in mind, because I did 3170 minutes of exercise in January. However, they appear to have forgotten that February has only 28 days. So, they are pushing me to do 124.3 minutes to exercise every day. Don't they know how busy uni professors are???? As for updating this blog, well,I was a couple of days late once or twice, but I got there. Hope you'll keep with me in February! Those who follow me on Twitter (if you don’t follow me, please do now) would know that I went to Kobe last weekend. I was privileged to be invited to attend a special event on teaching English to learners with dyslexia. I have done a little work with teaching English to students with special needs before, namely conducting listening tests to deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and one of my seminar students from 2016-2017 focused on dyslexia for her graduate thesis. But I have to admit that I am certainly in the dark for the most with this topic. Talking about the entire event would take up too much time, so I’ll just give a quick summary of a few ideas that the main speaker, Keiichi Takeda, talked about. I had seen Keiichi Takeda speak at a conference in Shimane last year. He spoke really well and I enjoyed his talk then and this time as well. He started by talking about a couple of famous people who have various degrees of dyslexia, before explaining different terminologies: Learning Disabilities, Learning Disorders, and in some parts of the US, Learning Differences. Personally, I like the "Learning Differences" idea; we all learn in different ways. We then saw a couple of different ways to experience how those with dyslexia see words written in books, etc. I'll quickly explain three. The second example given was something like this. To read this passage, you'll need to follow this code: ○ = e △ = a ▲ = t ▼ = s □ = p ◎ = h For m△ny □○o□le, ▲◎○ ▼unflow○r i▼ △ ▼ymbol of ▼umm○r. ▲◎○ir brig◎▲ y○llow color▼ m△k○ u▼ f○○l r○l△x○d on ◎o▲, ◎umid ▼umm○r d△y▼. △▲ ▲◎○ ○nd of ▼umm○r, you c△n coll○c▲ ▲◎○ ▼○○d▼ to □l△n▲ ▲◎○ n○x▲ y○△r, or ○△▲ ▲◎○m △▼ △ h○△l▲◎y ▼n△ck. The third example is a little rarer, but a situation where the letters on the page seem to move or disappear. Rather than trying to explain it, it might be easier to just watch a short video I have linked from YouTube. Here you go: Professor Takeda also talked about features of dyslexia among Japanese students, such as difficulties distinguishing between hiragana characters like ね and わ or perhaps ぬ and め. It goes without saying that kanji is even more challenging. The thing that is difficult for teachers, and what we really need to be aware of, is that dyslexia doesn't mean the child is less talented. We need to be aware that such children learn in different ways and having trouble reading doesn't mean they have to give up on their dreams. If anyone has read Malcolm Gladwell's book, David and Goliath (I will be using this book in my foreign cultures course next school year), you would have read about David Boies, the attorney who has dyslexia. I think that gives a pretty good example of someone who has managed to use what many people might see as a disadvantage or weakness as an advantage and strength. So, as I was listening to the talks at the event, as always, I was thinking about how mindsets fit into this. At first, I thought that mindsets wouldn't be helpful for considering the education of children with dyslexia. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that having a growth mindset is vital for those with dyslexia. Teachers need to educate such children with the growth mindset being the basis of their instruction. The growth mindset is more than just using a bit of elbow grease; it is about reflecting on how to do better and focus on the process rather than the person. Many children with dyslexia might become victims of the false growth mindset, in that they are told, "Just do your best!" However, as we learn with the false growth mindset, a true growth mindset isn't just about trying hard; it is about being prepared to fail, but then learning from your failures. It is about ignoring comparisons with others, and just looking at improving your own ability and being better than you were yesterday. There is still plenty for me to learn about this part of education. Thanks very much to the organizers and everyone involved with the event! So what do you think? Do you have much experience teaching children with dyslexia? Share your experience and ideas with a comment. Finally, I want to share a short film I saw about dyslexia a few years ago. Enjoy! Although I never used to be a huge follower of basketball, over the last couple of years I have become a bit of a fan. This is all due to one player: my son. When I was a bit younger (much younger???), I used to love cricket. Everything was about cricket. Cricket cricket cricket. But I think my son is much more addicted to basketball than I was to cricket and that has had a strong influence on me. In one of my classes about public speaking, I have been incorporating podcasts a bit this year. This month, we used a podcast episode about basketball and how the balance of the dunk and the three point shot is a reflection of the yin and yang of life. My favorite podcast is 99% Invisible. I've always been interested in architecture and design (I considered becoming an architect at one stage......until I fell asleep during work experience). Although not every episode is about architecture or design, the stories are really interesting and Roman Mars is very easy on the ear. My favorite episode, and the one we used in class, is called The Yin and Yang of Basketball. If you haven't heard the episode, I highly recommend it. It starts with a brief history of basketball and goes through some of the issues the sport faced over the years. The focus of the story then turns to racial discrimination and how the dunk shot became a symbol of the fight against segregation in the 1960s. In class, we discussed problems with race around the world, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Black Power salute , and racial discrimination both in and out of Japan. We even had a chat about which language we should use with people who appear to be from abroad, using this classic (bit slightly exaggerated) video. The podcast then moves onto to explain that the three-point shot was brought into basketball in order to make basketball more exciting—it was turning into a game in which tall guys would just dunk or lay up the ball. This is where the yin and yang of basketball comes in. (I'm not going to get into the details here. Listen to the podcast to find out what it's all about.) What I really liked about the message in the latter half of the podcast was that regardless of any innate ability or having tall parents or not, anyone who puts in the effort and hard work could become an NBA player. This reflects the idea of the growth mindset, which is where I am centering my research at the moment: How can we, as English teachers, create classroom environments in which students also feel that it is their efforts, not some natural ability, that pays off in the end? It's important to remember that the growth mindset, however, is not just about effort. Reflection and consideration of how to do better next time is vital. Do you do anything to build your students' beliefs in the importance and value of effort? I'd love to hear your ideas. Photos borrowed from:
99% logo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99%25_Invisible Basketball ring - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/yin-yang-basketball/ Black Power salute - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute Wow! I've missed a deadline already! Actually, after a busy weekend and graduate students' theses due today (now yesterday), I'm going to allow myself this one. Actually, 24 hours (well, now it's 36 hours) late isn't bad all considering. So last week, I talked about my Apple Watch, and this week, I'll finish the set by looking at the AirPods (those things you can see on the left there). Apple, I'll be looking forward to my pay cheque soon. So when you buy the Airpods, you get the little box and the two pods. The box acts as your charger (assuming it is fully charged) and 15 seconds sitting in there nice and comfy gives the pods 3 hours of continuous use. I use the pods for at least an hour every day and probably only need to recharge the charger once a fortnight. That's not bad, I think. The other thing that I like about them is that it is easy to connect them up to your phone. All you need to do is open the box and your device and pods pair up in no time. Easy and quick: just how I like it. The shape and size of the AirPods was a bit worrying at first; surely they'd fall out at the slightest bump while walking or running. But no, they don't—and don't call me Shirley (Can you name the movie?). I've used them for quite a bit of running, and they have not fallen out even once. I have no idea why, but for some reason they manage to stay locked in your ears. And even if one did fall out, you'd know about it straight away, because unless both pods are in your ears (or one in your ear and the other in someone else's ear if you are sharing listening to music), the audio automatically stops so you know something is wrong. So I guess the question is, as always, would I get a set again? Well, at ¥15000 for a set, they are a bit pricey, so hopefully I won't need to get another set, but I think, yeah, I would get another set. The sound quality is great considering they are not your full headphone kit and they are great for running. The set up is really easy and they look pretty cool. Well done, Apple, well done!
I mentioned on my Twitter account in late October that I had succumbed to temptation and bought an Apple Watch. I got a 42mm Series 3 GPS + Cellular model with stainless steel back as well as an extra band for running and a pair of air pods (I'll get to those in another blog entry). It was probably a little more than I had planned to pay, but you've got to go out and splurge on yourself from time to time, right? Am I happy with it? Yes, I think so. Looking back, I don't know if I would have gone with the GPS + Cellular model if I had to buy it a gain, but basically I have no problems with it. What I like a lot about the watch is the activity app it comes with. I'm not sure, but I think it only comes with the watch, not with phones. You can see the three rings on the watch in the photo above. They, along with the numbers, show me how active I've been that day (red ring, red number in calories burned), the amount of exercise I've done that day (green ring, green number in minutes), and how much I've been standing (blue ring, blue number in "number of hours in which I have stood for at least one minute"). Each day, you have a challenge to complete the three rings, which you can re-adjust to your liking. I have my red ring level set at 700, the green one at 30 minutes, and the blue at 12 hours. The red one is definitely the hardest to complete. Working with the daily challenges, there are trophies for certain achievements, such as completing each ring every day of the week, every day of the month, 100 times, doing the highest number of minutes exercised, and so on. These trophies don't sit on the shelf and collect dust, which is great and the little reward is nice (if you're a simple person like me!). Getting such rewards probably makes me "extrinsically motivated with instrumental orientation" (hire me as a speaker if you want to know more about that), but I think it works okay for this because of the new challenges that come up each month. Each month I get new challenges sent to me. So last month, if I wanted to get a special "trophy," I had to burn 200% of my red ring goal (so that's 1400 calories) in one day twice in the month. I didn't get there.... I did it once, and got to over 1300 one other day, but didn't quite have enough in the tank. This month, I have two new challenges, as you can see in the photos above. I've achieved the one on the left, which was just completing all three rings for seven days in a row some time in January. The one on the right is a little tougher. I need achieve an average of 95 minutes of exercise every day during January. This exercise can include running (linked up to my Nike Running app), walking, air bike, yoga, and pretty much whatever exercise I do. What I really like about this is that it is telling me that up until now, my average has been 90 minutes a day. Now it wants me to go for 95 minutes a day. I don't know if the 95 minutes is the same across the board for everyone with an Apple Watch, but if it is looking at my average so far and telling me to do just a little more each day, that's a perfect example of i + 1 (again, hire me as a speaker if you want me to talk about that, too). FYI, as of 18:00 today, my average is at 97 minutes for this month. I guess I'm on track, but only barely. I might have to do a yoga session before bed tonight.
There is a lot of talk about robots becoming human-like and artificial intelligence reaching levels beyond the human brain. I can't remember who said it, or even when I heard it, but I have heard that "before robots become like humans, it is likely that humans will become like robots" (Someone, Sometime). When it comes to education and social skills, I am a bit concerned about this. But, when I think about health and how advances in technology will help us look after our bodies a bit more, I kind of like things such as the Apple Watch and the app that tells me to get off my butt and go for a walk or run. How about you? Do you have an Apple Watch? Want one? Don't want one? Let me know with a comment. (Oh, and if you do, let me know what your special exercise challenge for January is. I'm really curious to find out if they did go for the i + 1 idea.) 2017 went by in a flash and now I realize I haven't updated the blog for nine months. I guess it's time to give it another go. I'll aim for one post a week this time. If it doesn't work out, sorry; I'm a kind of busy guy.
First, what happened last year? Books I had three books published this year. Two were a series of listening books focusing on dictogloss: Ultimate listening. You can find the links under the "books" tab at the top of the page. I also co-edited a book on flipped learning. It was completed in November, printed in December, and will be on sale early this year, I believe. Presentations At the last count, I had a total of 30 presentations in 2017. This number includes presentations at conferences, workshops at schools, and guest teacher lessons. About a third of these were conducted in Japanese and the rest in English. I really feel my Japanese language skills have been slipping recently, so I would like to brush up on them a bit in the new year. Papers I only had three papers published in 2017, which was a little disappointing. I do, however, have four papers forthcoming and to be published in early 2018 and another four papers currently under review. A further three papers are currently halfway through being written, so hopefully I can finish those off early in the new year. Private I was probably too grumpy throughout a lot of 2017 (sometimes with good reason......). But generally, I think I had a pretty good year. I made some really good new friends who have similar academic interests as I do, so that was great. I spent a lot of time helping out with my son's basketball team and they manage to win the winter state finals, which was huge. They have been working towards that all year and it was a great relief for everyone involved for them to win. It was the first time for their coach to win that tournament after more than 20 years of coaching and the first time in 25 years for the club. We are off to the nationals in March. (Luckily, I chose not to apply to present at the two biggest academic conferences in the world for those involved in second language acquisition, which is in the U.S. in March.) So what about this year. What are my goals for 2018? Books I'm enjoying writing books. My goal for 2018 is to get at least one book published as the solo author and on sale by the end of the year. This will be a big challenge, but I am always looking how to improve on the previous year, so there you go. If possible, I would like to upgrade the two dictogloss books and if the solo book works out, I will look at translating it into Japanese to reach a wider audience in Japan. This goal might be revisited and revised later in the year. Presentations I presented at three international conferences in 2017 (two of which were in Japan) and would like to keep this going. I am hoping to present at ASIATEFL in Macau (application submitted) and at the ICFSLA 30th anniversary conference in Poland (application currently being prepared). I am involved in the running of the JACET Conference in Sendai this year, so I will be very busy with that. I really enjoyed giving a couple of workshops last year and would like to do one or two this year as well. Papers As I mentioned above, I do have a couple of papers currently under review. They are all for international journals, so hopefully they will be accepted. If not, I will keep on trying. The goal for 2018 is to write and submit 5 new papers to international journals with at least three being accepted. Of course, whether they are accepted is beyond my control and purely up to the mood of the reviewers (I'll be the first to admit, though, that I am not always the most forgiving reviewer.....sorry). Private I'll try to be a nicer person and less grumpy. I would like to work a bit more on my fitness. I'll set myself the goal of running 800km in 2018. I only did 400 km in 2017, so I'll need to make sure I'm on top of it, but let's see how we go. It's less than 80km a month, which is a gold medal level on the Nike Running app. I managed to do that level a couple of times last year, so there are no excuses not to do it this year. I might be reporting on my efforts with this throughout the year via my blog. Finally, I will try to be better with this blog and be a little more consistent. Till next time, bye! As some of you would have known, or worked out by seeing my Twitter tweets, I am now in Australia. I am here for two weeks with students, who will spend one week at a language school and one week teaching Japanese language and culture at local elementary and high schools. Today is my fourth day back here, so I thought I would share a couple of things about my country that I had been missing while living in Japan. I only get back about once a year, so I try to soak these up as much as I can while I am here. Love of Al Fresco Dining Basically meaning, 'eating outside,' dining alfresco is a huge part of Australian culture. Most sidewalks, parks, beach fronts, river fronts, almost anywhere, will have tables and chairs set out for people to enjoy the weather and atmosphere as they eat and drink with friends. When I built my house, I wanted to make sure my deck was as big as possible so I could enjoy an al fresco dining atmosphere at my own home during the warmer months. Love of Water Water is another big part of Australian culture. Of course, it plays a large role in most cultures, but it seems a major part of everyone's lifestyle here. If you remember the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, you'll recall that the flame was surrounded by water (if you don't remember, watch this video from about the 12:00 mark). So many Australian families have their own pools and it is very much a status symbol to live by the water, or at least somewhere where you can see the ocean (and yes, I can see the ocean from my home, too - just). Because of our love of water, you'll find a lot of places along rives or beaches where you can go running, walk to work, and ride your bicycle. Now again, this is probably not unusual in western cultures, and I know Japan also has a lot of such walkways. However, I find that in Australia, more opportunities are given to people to take advantage of these places. Often, it will be too dark or I'll be too busy to enjoy going for a run along the river in Japan. Here, there seems to be more time to relax and do that. Love of Nature Australia's climate allows for a lot of great nature. Again, Japan has some beautiful scenery and the different colors in the different seasons are magnificent. I also like the different plants, trees, and flowers of Australia, too. Greenery is a vital part of the household garden in Australia. Even in the city areas, you'll always find places like you can see in the picture on the right, where you can sit surrounded by greenery as you enjoy eating lunch, chatting with friends, playing on your smartphone, or doing whatever you like. I kind of liked the area in that photo, as it was just next to the water feature you could see in the photo above. So you have the river, a water feature, and a nice garden all packed into one little area. Very nice! Well, there you have it. There are a couple of things I've noticed in the first few days back in Australia. There are many more, of course, and I'll get to them later.
So what do you miss about your home country? Or if you live in your home country, what do you think you would miss if you lived abroad? Let us know with a comment below. I've been lucky enough over the past few years to give a few presentations at various academic conferences, local schools, and educational events. Just having a quick look at my CV, I'm at just over 120 presentations since I started working at university in 2010. Most people despise speaking in public, and I was certainly one of those quite a few years ago, but now I look at it as an opportunity to share my ideas about education with various people. I've become used to it, I guess. If you are worried about public speaking, try not to think that people will criticize you. If they do, they are just threatened by you and your skills. Look at it as an opportunity to get ideas to improve your own teaching or research. This way of thinking can help you relax and enjoy your presentation a little more. I have two talks (actually three) coming up soon. Tomorrow, I will be talking at Kids Door, an organization that works to provide better education for students from less fortunate backgrounds. The audience will mainly be university students who are tutoring I'll be talking about how to motivate students to enjoy learning English a little more. The workshop tomorrow will be in Japanese, but/so if you are interested, I think you can still apply. The other talk, which has turned out to be two talks, will be for Oxford University Press. I've done some work with OUP over the past two or three years and have enjoyed every minute of it. Next month, I'll be giving a talk (twice) in OUP's English Language Teaching Online Conference. I'm very excited to be part of this conference, not only because it will give me an opportunity to talk about Mindsets in English Education, but because it is an online conference, and I will be giving the talk from my office, with the audience sitting back in their own offices, livings rooms, local coffee shop, or wherever they may be. Not being able to see my audience will be a huge challenge, and I look forward to it. I wrote a short blog entry related to my talk here, if you want to get a bit of an idea of what I'm going to be going on about. The schedule for the Oxford ELTOC 2017 Conference can be found here. I hope to see you there (or perhaps it would be more correct to say I hope not see you there... no that's not right....I hope you can join!).
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AuthorI'm Adrian Leis, Associate Professor at a university in Sendai, Japan. I mainly teach and research second language pedagogy, motivation and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). |