…- Submissions of graduation theses: January 12th was the deadline for submissions. I’m sure some students were working through the
Mar
18
Master of Arts final presentations, February 28th
The four students in the Graduate School of Language & Literature who completed their Master’s theses this year presented their research at this annual public event. There were two students from the Division of Japanese Language & Literature and two …
CamTESOL 2022
I recently took part in the CamTESOL conference (“Cam” being short for “Cambodia”). Because of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, it was held online, just as it was last year. The conference has become quite well-known all across Asia, so there …
Mar
21
Feb
27
Master of Arts presentation
One of my students, Ryosuke OMI, presented his MA research last night. It was a public presentation, but, for safety reasons, we held the event online using Zoom. His title was:
L2 inner voice development: A role for language learner
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Nov
26
International Language Days 2020
Last year, I attended the International Language Week in Billings, Montana (at our partner university, MSUB). This year, it wasn’t possible to hold a physical event so I attended the online equivalent, hosted by TH Aschaffenburg (in Germany), International Language …
Nov
06
Mid-term presentations (MA course)
Last night, two students in my seminar, NAGAI Natsuki and NAKANO Yukari, did their public mid-term presentations. (These are a requirement for all graduate school students.) Thanks to all who attended. I hope the questions and comments will help them …
Sep
17
Seminar on corpus analysis
Last weekend (September 14th–15th), I went with Prof. Yoshii, our department chair, to Tokyo to attend a seminar by Atsushi Mizumoto, quite a famous professor from Kansai University. The seminar was a 12-hour course on corpus analysis, most of it …
Sep
01
Intensive English 2019
Every year we hold a 2-week intensive English course called Intensive English. The 1st week is on campus and the 2nd week is in Aso. It is a course for any student at PUK, but most of the participants are …
Feb
26
Roy Lyster@Eibun!
Roy Lyster, a leading researcher in content-based language teaching from McGill University in Canada, visited us last week, arriving on Thursday and leaving on Sunday. On Friday and Saturday, he did some fascinating lectures and workshops, talking about the counterbalanced …
Feb
18
Students’ posters
The deadline for handing in graduation papers (卒論) is January 11th. But the students’ work is not over yet. In early or mid- February, they have oral exams (口頭試問), where two teachers ask them lots of questions about their papers. …
Jan
10
We turned in our graduation papers!
On Jan. 10th, 2019, Yoshii Zemi students turned in their graduation papers. All the students wrote their papers in English. It was hard work but they did it. You all did a good job!…
Jul
01
END 2018 Conference, Budapest
I visited Budapest, Hungary, to attend the Education & New Developments 2018 conference last month. I gave a presentation titled A MULTI-ELEMENT APPROACH TO IMPROVING ACADEMIC ENGLISH WRITING INSTRUCTION IN JAPAN. Many teachers and researchers from all over the …
Faculty of Letters Forum 2016: Find your own way of learning English!
Sorry, we don’t have a translation for this page. The event will be conducted in Japanese.
文学部フォーラム「英語を学ぶ～みつけよう、あなたの学習法」開催のお知らせ
熊本県立大学文学部では、英語を学ぶ効果的な学習方法について共に考えるフォーラム「英語を学ぶ～みつけよう、あなたの学習法」を開催します。
学習者個人の実践例やこれまでの英語教育の研究成果などを紹介しながら、学習者にあった英語学習方法を考えていきます。様々な方法や工夫を参考に、個人の特徴を生かした英語学習を始める機会です。皆様ぜひご参加ください。
日時： 平成２８年１０月２９日（土） 午後１時～４時
場所： 熊本県立大学２号館 中講義室２
主催： 熊本県立大学文学部
対 象： どなたでもご参加下さい
プログラム総合司会 水尾 文子 熊本県立大学准教授
開会挨拶 半藤 英明 熊本県立大学学長
発 表…
Mar
02
Busy spring
We’ve had a hectic couple of months in the department. Here are a few of the things that have been happening:
