STEM English in Japan Education, Innovation, and Motivation
“This book brings together a set of very important chapters on STEM education in Japan, written by people with first-hand experience of working in the area. Topics range from Japanese STEM workplaces through to university education. Other areas of focus include innovations in Japanese STEM education...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 7: Perceptions of English Needs at a National University:Comparing Students and Science Teachers (Glen Hill)
- Chapter 8: The Effects of Career Education Exercises on L2 Motivation in English Classes (Noriko Iwamoto)
- Chapter 9: To Build a Poster: The Story of a STEM Poster Presentation Course (Madoka Kawano, James Elwood and Reijiro Shibasaki)
- Chapter 10: EFL STEM Students' Variable Identities for Learning English Writing as Shared Repertoire (Kimie Yamamura)
- Part IV: Aligning Motivations, Values and Practices
- Chapter 11: Possible L2 Selves of STEM Graduate Students: A Two-Year Interview Study (Matthew Apple, Joseph Falout and Glen Hill)
- Chapter 12: L2 Learning Motivations and Prosocial Engagement in EFL Conversation Classes: A Comparison of STEM and Humanities Students (Yoshifumi Fukada, Tim Murphey, Tetsuya Fukuda and Joseph Falout)
- Chapter 13: Developing Courses and Preparing Materials with Focus on Weaknesses of Japanese Engineers and Engineering Students (Michihiro Hirai)
- Chapter 14: STEM (And English) In Japan: The Big Picture (Matthew Apple, Joseph Falout and Glen Hill).
- Foreword (Laurence Anthony)
- Chapter 1: Introduction (Glen Hill)
- Part I: English for Japanese STEM Workplaces
- Chapter 2: Vertical Vs. Horizontal Oral Discourses in Japanese Healthcare Professions (Mike Guest)
- Chapter 3: Corporate Views of English Used in Agricultural Companies (Glen Hill)
- Part II: English for Japanese STEM Education
- Chapter 4: Motivation to Study English in Japan: A Nationwide Investigation of Japanese STEM Students (Matthew Apple, Joseph Falout and Glen Hill)
- Chapter 5: Development and Implementation of an English for Research Purposes Program for Japanese and International Graduate Students of Science, Technology and Engineering (Bill Holden and John Blake)
- Chapter 6: Genre-Based, Corpus-Supported Writing Programs for Science and Engineering Students at Japanese Universities (Judy Noguchi and Nilson Kunioshi)
- Part III: English for Japanese STEM Students