Yasuo Nakatani
ACE 2016
Featured Speaker
Hosei University, Japan
Yasuo Nakatani is a Professor of the Faculty of Economics at Hosei University. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University. His research interests are Second Language Acquisition, Academic Writing and Business Communication. He published a number of research articles regarding Communication Strategies in international Journals such as The Modern language Journal (MLJ). He is a coauthor of Language Learner Strategies: Thirty years of Research and Practice from Oxford University Press and has published several books such as Improving Oral Proficiency through Strategy Training, and Global Leadership: Case Studies of Business Leaders in Japan. He is a reviewer of MLJ, TESOL Quarterly, System, Language Learning and Journal of Pragmatics.
Featured Symposium Presentation: Global Education with Business-Academia Collaboration An important goal of higher education is to research and write a decent thesis. To achieve this, learners should read substantial boo s to define significance of research territory, and develop critical thin ing and problem solving skills. However, it is not easy to motivate them to complete demanding tasks merely at classrooms and libraries. This paper presents a unique example of global education at a seminar (GES), which helps students improve academic skills. GES enhances learner strategies by project-based learning (PBL) with business-academia collaboration. GES consists of three stages; rolemodel learning, overseas projects, and thesis writing. First, students meet with social leaders inspiring and encouraging them to strive for greatness, such as the Vice President of Coca-Cola Japan, and the ex-CEO of Toshiba Vietnam. When understating industries and preparing for Q & A sessions, students are supposed to read many boo s with critical thin ing and find relevant research topics Secondly, they take part in PBL by visiting Asian countries and investigating local operations of companies like CocaCola and Toshiba. They also visit foreign universities to discuss social issues, and conduct interviews and uestionnaires with students there After finishing the pro ects, they report findings and present new business ideas at company headquarters. Finally, having feedback from business executives on their projects, students start writing theses with the obtained data and propose new research niches. They use the academic writing textbook based on corpus analysis dealing with 200 academic papers. Through GES, students can develop strong motivation for continuing active learning.
Featured Symposium Friday, October 21 16:45-18:15 Room 504 (5F) 24 | IAFOR.ORG | ACE/ACSET/AURS 2016