I presented at JALT PanSIG yesterday on multimodality for second language perceptual phonology acquisition. This builds on my PhD work. I have been busy with some major life changes so I don’t think it was the best presentation I have ever done but people seemed to like it/find it useful.
Here are the slides:
As of today, my article with Carolyn Blume from TU Dortmund is available in the special issue of TESL-EJ on Global Englishes and translanguaging. It is open-access so it is available for free.
We used TED talks as online self-study, with one group watching talks by speakers of prestige varieties of English (so-called ‘native speakers’) and one group watching speakers outside of these prestige varieties.
The title says it all: there were no real differences between groups. Somewhat worryingly, neither group made gains in vowel learning, which was what we were intending they learned. Both were the same, although a limitation could be learners cramming at the last minute. However, this is something students do!
The article is here, and check out the whole of the special issue while you are there.
These are my slides from my talk at Yokohama JALT today. I am writing this and scheduling this the night before, so hopefully you enjoy it!
As of yesterday, the TESL-EJ has my review of Freiermuth, M. & Zarrinabadi, N. (2020). Technology and the psychology of second language learners and users. Palgrave Macmillan.
Tl;dr. I liked it, but it is not perfect. Obviously, because nothing is.
I put up a new working paper on SocArxiv today.
Jones, M. (2018, October 10). Exploring Difficulties Faced in Teaching Elective English Listening Courses at Japanese Universities. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/sa2kw
In this paper, an exploration of the problems encountered in teaching two elective English listening courses at Japanese universities in 2017 and 2018. Intended as a working paper with an intended audience of teaching professionals and those who support them, problems in working memory, motivation and general listening pedagogy are detailed.