Teaching
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Communication Strategies 1,2
This is one of the required courses in the English curriculum at Waseda University School of Science and Engineering. The course emphasizes the development of spoken communication skills by doing a variety of speaking and listening activities. This is a coordinated course and I am one of many teachers who are teaching it. In my sections, I emphasize students' use of classroom management English in addition to the main target language. Furthermore, I give students extended vocabulary practice in order to help them build their active vocabulary. Finally, students prepare for standardized tests through preparation of their own practice test items.
Concept Building and Discussion 1,2
This course is required for all second-year students at the School of Science and Engineering. It is designed to get students to use English for academic purposes in a task-oriented setting allowing for both and spoken and written language production. Students engage in various research projects, negotiating the progress of these projects with others.
Academic Reading 1,2
This course is taken in tandem with Concept Building and Discussion 1,2 above and completes the English curriculum for second-year students at the School of Science and Engineering. Students are given a bottom-up approach to academic reading over the two semester series from the word level (i.e., morphology, technical vocabulary) to the level of the entire text. The course concludes with several weeks of practical reading experience with academic texts of various genres.