Research – Practice gap

Note-taking in CLIL/EMI classrooms

Interlanguage pragmatics

Language teaching materials

Ten two-letter words:
If it is to be, it is up to me.

TESOL

Doctor of Education in TESOL

MA in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language

Anaheim University

University of Birmingham

J. F. Oberlin University
Aoyama Gakuin University
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Keisen University
Komazawa University

Research Papers

Exploring the Research-Practice Gap amongst Teachers of English and Program Leaders in University Language Programs in Japan (Doctoral Dissertation) 2024.

Saying it ‘just right’: Teaching pragmatics for success in ELT. ELT Journal. 2019. With J. Siegel and M. Firth.

Learner Output and Listener Perceptions of Compliments on Study Abroad. Proceedings of the 49th (2017) Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. With J. Siegel.

Pragmatic development and study abroad: Building and maintaining competence. In TESOL voices: Insider accounts of classroom life – Higher Education. Stewart, T. (Ed.) TESOL Press. (2017). With J. Siegel and M. Firth.

Message sent. Message-received? Teachers and target community members decide. Innovation in Language Teaching. T. & F. Online.(2016). With J. Siegel.

Teach your students a lesson about threats. In Back to Basics: Filling the Gaps in Pragmatic Teaching Materials. JALT Pragmatics SIG. Fujimoto, D. & Tatsuki, D. (Eds). (2016). With J. Siegel and M. Firth.

Recent Academic Presentations

Effects of note-taking instruction on EFL students’ note-taking skills and lecture comprehension. 56th British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference. United Kingdom, 2023.

Preparing Students for EMI Courses: Notetaking in academic lectures. JALT PanSIG Conference. Japan. 2023.

Note-taking in Academic Lectures. World CLIL International Conference. The Hague, Netherlands. 2022.

Does TESOL teacher motivation matter? Values vs. rewards. Korea TESOL International Conference. Korea. 2022.

How to teach notetaking in ELT: Reports from action research. AILA International Conference. Netherlands. 2021.

Japan Association of Language Teachers