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JUNE 18, Friday, 19:00-21:00

Please pre-register to insure your place by emailing your name and contact number to:

PROGRAM:
Teaching Multicultural Classes with Varied English:
Challenges and strategies

RESOURCES:
Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D. (Host)
Adair Nagata, Ph.D.
Annette Karseras, M.A.

PLACE:
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower, 4th Floor)

LANGUAGE:
English and Japanese

FEE:
Members Free
Non-members 1000Yen (Non-member Students Free)

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
In recent years, many universities have started running content-based classes in English at undergraduate and graduate levels. Such programs are often open to both international (exchange) students and Japanese students and, while they are taught in English, are not English language classes per se. Teaching multicultural student groups brings opportunities and challenges relating to intercultural communication in the classroom, such as different communication styles, learning styles, value sets, and language levels.

In this SIETAR Japan program, three teachers will serve as resources to stimulate discussion by sharing episodes from their experience facilitating such classes. This will be an informal setting where participants are also invited to talk about their own experiences and challenges. We hope this program will stimulate and inspire your own teaching and provide an opportunity for informal networking alongside the discussion about teaching multicultural classes in English.

RESOURCES:
Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D. (Indiana U.) and Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University, inquires, facilitates and coaches with keen interest in human perception, consciousness and creativity at academic and professional institutions in Japan and overseas. He loves dialogues in informal setting.

Adair Linn Nagata, PhD, teaches, facilitates, and coaches with an emphasis on integrative transformative learning through Personal Leadership?. She has been teaching intercultural communication at universities in Japan and the USA since 2002.

Annette Karseras M.A. (Leicester University) takes an intercultural approach to coaching, training, and teaching: The more points of view, the more options. The more options, the greater the chances of success. She has been teaching Japanese society and intercultural communication since 2005.

How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10-minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left.

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