Welcome to the Year of the Fire Horse! 🐎✨
Today marks the beginning of Chinese New Year 2026. In the Chinese zodiac, the Horse stands for energy, freedom, and an unstoppable drive to move forward, a wonderful spirit to carry into the new year.
We wish all our clients, partners, and language specialists a wonderful Year of the Horse! 🏮
#ChineseNewYear2026 #YearOfTheHorse #InterculturalCommunication
Effective TEFL teaching goes beyond language skills. This article explores intercultural communication, cultural challenges in the classroom, and how teachers can adapt to diverse learning environments abroad: https://www.ebcteflcourse.com/intercultural-communication-in-tefl/
#InterculturalCommunication #TEFL #TeachingAbroad #GlobalEducation #TeacherSkills #TEFL #TESOL
The latest honor is that researchers at universities in Tōkyō have a national grant to study podcasting for educator professional development, and they are taking my Japancasting podcast as a case study. They interviewed me by Zoom and I could enjoy recalling my innovations from 2005 in Japan, soon after podcasting started in North America. Here I'm showing some scenes from the early period, and again in collaboration with Indian colleagues, partly to reach English learners in South and Central Asia and those interested in Japan.
See the Podcasts & Videos web page for most of the educational podcasts and publications about the process: https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia
#OnlineEducation #OpenAccess #OER #podcasting #podcast #podcasts #education #HigherEducation #Japan #Japanese #BilingualEducation #bilingual #LanguageTeaching #InterculturalCommunication
#academia #culture #linguistics #language #languages #EFL #ESL
"Foreigners and Japanese Adapting to Each Other": a presentation to university students and staff from Thailand and Japan at Kansai University. I was an Adjunct Professor there from 2015-2020, teaching ICT classes foreign exchange and regular students. I also pioneered a Global Faculty Development position there.
ABSTRACT: Most of my life has been devoted to bringing Japanese together with foreigners in their midst. This presentation applies perspectives from intercultural communication and bilingualism, courses I have taught, to give advice to both sides. A middle way of adapting as a professional foreigner is suggested, between the extremes of alienation and going native. A bilingual slide advises Japanese on research findings that ease their concerns about cultural identity in intercultural relations.
Slideshow "Foreigners and Japanese Adapting to Each Other": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396013192
#education #languages #Japan #Japanese #bilingualism #InterculturalCommunication
📚 'Formative feedback in a multicultural classroom: a review' - an article in the @ucl UN #SDG4 Collection on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=6e67274f-8baa-4704-a1d1-8e41cde68752
#ILD2025 #FormativeFeedback #InterculturalCommunication #HigherEducation
Job - Alert 📚
🎓 PROFESSOR IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION & BUSINESS ENGLISH
Deadline: 2025-01-29
Location: Germany, Nordrhein Westfalen, Soest
APPLY:: https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=6352
#hiring #Professor #InterculturalCommunication #Economics #linguistics #businessenglish
New publication: "Interview with Steve McCarty" [on his professorial accomplishments in Japan].
The College and University Educators research group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching has honored me with their second annual Veteran Teacher Voices interview on my teaching career in Japan. I critique the foreign language teaching profession, discuss future trends of increasing foreigners in Japan, the need for English, and long-term effects of AI on language acquisition.
I believe educationalists will find this article interesting: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386424805
和訳 - Japanese translation which I edited: スティーブ・マッカーティとのインタビュー（日本での教授としての業績）: https://researchmap.jp/waoe/misc/48628107/attachment_file.pdf
Publications on bilingualism and language teaching: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism
#TEFL #Japan #Japanese #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearning #bilingualism #InterculturalCommunication #FacultyDevelopment #career #retirement #InternationalMarriage #OnlineEducation
Join us on Friday for the final event of our series:
Roman Lietz will present a lecture and discussion on Social Cohesion and Identity Construction in Online Fandoms.
Don't miss it!
We are delighted to welcome Maria Rieder, Anita Barmettler, and Marta Giralt from the University of Limerick this Friday for a lecture and discussion on the use of Virtual Exchange in digital and intercultural competence education.
Join us online:
#intercultural #VirtualExchange
#interculturalcommunication
#digitalcommunication
Next week, @mendesdeoliveira from @unipotsdam
will give a lecture at @unijena on Interculturality and decision-making processes in online teams: interactional aspects of joint and unilateral decisions.
📅 Tue Nov 28 at 18:00
Lecture Hall 7, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3
If you are around Jena, don't miss it!
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#interculturalcommunication
#digitalcommunication
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