Content-specific Listening & Speaking 3&4

3rd & 4th Year

Content-specific Listening & Speaking

(formerly Content-based Classes II)

Course information sheets with course description, requirements, processes, goals and activities for this course

Ethics, Policy and Society	Global Education Issues
Human Rights	International Business Issues and Conflicts
International Issues	Multicultural Japan

Examples of students' work

Visualizations of the research, discussion and presentation process	Note-taking on social, political, legal, and global issues	Mind-mapping on social, political, legal & global issues
Different ways of learning vocabulary	Explaining vocabulary	Collocation notes and networks
Posters for presentations on social, political, legal & global issues	Poster presentations on video/DVD	Students' stories of the development of their English during a course
Students' work from all courses

Research resources

Learning activities and cycles

Approaches to teaching this course

Summary of the Content - based Classes II discussion at the 2006 Retreat

Summaries of all the course-specific and cross-course discussions, at the 2005 Retreat, 2006 Retreat, and 2007 Retreat