Kimiko Koseki
Seijo University
Kimiko Koseki is a lecturer of English at Seijo University, Gakushuin University, and Toyo Eiwa University. She has presented and published papers at conferences of JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching), JACET (The Japan Association of College English Teachers), LET (The Japan Association for Language Education & Technology) as well as at international conferences in Vietnam and Cambodia. She received her MA in TESOL from Teachers College Columbia University. Her research interests include intercultural pragmatics, politeness studies, CLIL, CALL, and teaching global issues in English education.
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College Graduates Desire Suggestion-Making Tips
A questionnaire was given to 26 Japanese working women and 25 Japanese female college seniors to investigate what speech acts they wanted to have learned in college English courses. The results showed that 84.6% of the working women wished they had learned making suggestions. Then, eight business English course books were investigated. Four of them included making suggestions but none gave instruction related to sociocultural information necessary to use this speech act appropriately.