Tim will set the stage with some recent anthropological and neuroscience findings and theory that have clear indications for education. Harumi will talk about a pilot study she conducted using interview videos of enthusiastic L2 speakers in her English classes, sharing some comments given by the students to show how the videos affected students’ motivation in L2 learning.
Tim Murphey (Kanda University of International Studies) teaches a variety of courses in the English department and collaborates and consults with the ELI and other language programs to make an even more productive collaborative learning school, involving the students and the community.http://web.me.com/murpheytim
Harumi Ogawa is a full-time English teacher at the Department of International Cultural Studies at Iwate Prefectural University. Her research interests include content-based instruction, motivation and autonomy in language learning. She was a qualified Japanese teacher in Australia and has a master's degree from University of Chichester, UK.
