13:15-13:40: Kevin Knight – “Creating Leadership “Ways of Being” in Waseda FSE Learners through CELESE Courses”

Knight (2024, p. 12) “argues that…we talk about and perform leadership with specific intentions in our roles as researchers and practitioners, and our students and the leaders we see and interview do the same.” In an ESP blog post for TESOL International Association, Knight (2013) defines leadership as communicating to create and to achieve visions. He has applied this definition to enable his L2 learners studying business to understand leadership, create leadership experiences, and tell their leadership stories. The presenter explains how Concept Building and Discussion (CBD) and Technical Writing (TW) are developing the students’ abilities to create and achieve visions (i.e., leadership) in science and engineering.
(5-min break)

13:45-14:10: Tim Ferraro – “Extensive reading reports as in-class assessment in Academic Reading I: Lessons learned and student feedback”

With online tools such as machine translation becoming more available, how can language teachers adapt their classes? This presentation looks at the Academic Reading I course and conducting the Extensive Reading report as an in-class test rather than an online homework assignment. Teacher as well as student impressions will be discussed while exploring positive and negative aspects of an in-class test.

14:15-14:40: Chris Sheppard – “Teaching Content Through ALC: A Guide for Material Creation”

It is well known that we cannot satisfy everyone all the time, and this applies to many second language course books, including the recently completed Academic Lecture Comprehension textbooks. This presentation offers a brief guide for teachers on how to replace one of the main lectures (or practice lectures) in the textbook with your own content to make it more engaging for both students and teachers. It covers the concepts behind the course, content selection, and materials creation. Finally, the potential of using the course as a vehicle to deliver content is discussed, with some examples provided.