Sessions /
GILE SIG Forum #268

Sun, Nov 22, 17:20-18:50 JST | Zoom 25 | Open Session
Open session: please log in Global Issues in Language Education (GILE) General Forum

For the 14th successive year, the Global Issues SIG forum is an idea-sharing session open to all interested people. This well-received session linked to global issues and international understanding will feature classroom teachers’ mini-reports, and innovative ideas on teaching activities, materials writing, and curriculum design. Handouts, lesson plans, and teaching resources will be available to peruse or take. Come join our unique session, learn new teaching approaches, and share your ideas. Open to all!

Presentation Assets

Liz Leigh

Liz Leigh

Osaka City University
Liz Leigh is a graduate of Aberystwyth University in North Wales, and she has an M.Ed. in English Language Teaching (ELT) from Manchester University, UK. She first came to Japan in 1991, and she has taught in Tokushima prefecture in Shikoku, Oita city in Kyushu, and Taichung in Taiwan. She is currently teaching full time at Osaka City University. Her hobbies are scuba diving, hiking and swimming.
Mark Shrosbree

Mark Shrosbree

Tokai University
I teach at Tokai University Shonan Campus, Kanagawa. My professional interests include course design, methodology and materials development. I run regular “Lunchtime Workshops” at Tokai and maintain an online materials bank. I have created several course websites and am currently working on a Microsoft Teams system for teachers and students, as well as a SharePoint website for Tokai's International Education Centre.
Kip Cates

Kip Cates

Tottori University
Kip Cates is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Regional Sciences at Tottori University, Japan. He's the editor of the quarterly Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter and is active in the fields of global education, peace education and education for international understanding as a writer, speaker and teacher trainer.
Keith Hoy

Keith Hoy

Hiroshima Shudo University
Professor-Faculty of Global and Community Studies
Hitomi Sakamoto

Hitomi Sakamoto

Toyo Gakuen University
Masahito Watanabe

Masahito Watanabe

Yokohama National University
A professor of Yokohama National University, Japan, teaching general English courses and linguistics for university students and coordinating English instructors. Linguistics and pedagogical grammar are the major fields of the study. A translator of Grammar in Use Intermediate Third Edition (CUP), Language Arts: Product and Assessment for Diverse Classroom Fifth Edition (Waveland Pr. Inc.), etc.
Greg Goodmacher

Greg Goodmacher

Keiwa College
Author of numerous global issues content-based textbooks. Member of MW and GILE special interest groups. The writer of travel and culture magazine articles. Seriously addicted to Japanese hot springs. Blogs at https://hotspringaddict.blogspot.com. Also loves a good pun or three.
Koji Yamamoto

Koji Yamamoto

Elizabeth J. Lange

Elizabeth J. Lange