IE Orientation and 31st Annual Faculty Development
Symposium on University English Teaching
9:15 AM – 1:30 PM, Saturday April 6, 2024, Building 15: Rooms 15305, 15306, and 15308

Some of the speakers will prepare their presentations on video, which will
be uploaded to the “Integrated English Program Tutorials” Vimeo
Showcase: https://vimeo.com/showcase/9361953. [Password will be sentout separately through the Google Group.] Please watch them in advanceof the Orientation to get the most out of it.
9:15
9:30 9:45
9:50 10:05
10:10 10:50
10:55 11:25
11:30 11:45
11:50 12:25

12:30 13:30

13:30 ~Meet in Room 15-305
Welcoming new teachers
General announcements and brief overview of the program
Meet and Greet “trio-ing” partners
Attitudes and Use of AI Tools Among IE Teachers and Students- Joseph Dias
Showcase of IE Seminars: From Initial Conception to thedevelopment of relevant tasks and activities-Kevin Kamermans, Forrest Nelson, Rob Russell, Catherine Takasugi
Introducing an AI-Powered conversational English
learning chatbot: How we got here and where we’re going- Alan Schwartz
Using Teacher Generated Writing for Teaching Writing Feedback- Timothy Gutierrez
Materials Exchange & Chance to Get to Know Trio-ing Partners◼ Teachers will prepare handouts of tasks, activities, prompts,or rubrics that they have found to be useful and share themwith orientation participants in a casual “show and tell”
format. [Ideas for approaching the same course in adifferent way.]
Lunch- Photos of new teachers for the IE Website- New teachers given campus tour and help setting up
portal access at Info Media Support Lounge
Unanswered questions answered1

From approx.12:30 PM lunch will be provided. Although the original plan
was to go off campus for lunch from 1 PM, that was changed because it
was inconvenient for too many teachers. [There will be a limited number ofvegan and vegetarian options. Hopefully, our campus cherry trees will
cooperate and hold onto their blossoms until April 6th.]

DETAILS OF ORIENTATION PROGRAM
9:30 - 9:45 – Joseph Dias- Seven teachers new to the AGU English Department will beintroduced:• Mohammed Ahmadi• Rena Endo
• Simeon Flowers (absent)• Gibran Garcia• Kevin Kamermans• Kevin Murphy• Ayako Otomo• Mariana Oana Senda• James Underwood• Jiro Watanabe- General announcements and brief overview of the program- Meet and Greet “trio-ing” partners
9:50 - 10:05 – Joseph Dias
Title: Attitudes and Use of AI Tools Among IE Teachers and Students
Brief Description: In the previous academic year surveys were conducted toassess the attitudes and use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, along withtools that are not technically generative AI but still have AI supporting them, suchas DeepL for translation and the automated grammar checking in Google Docs.
The speaker will summarize the findings of the surveys and explain the ways wewill need to continue to set up written and oral tasks in ways that discourage anoverreliance on these tools that might impede the acquisition of basic language
competences, while at the same time helping students to use the technology
intelligently and strategically.

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10:10 - 10:50 – Kevin Kamermans, Forrest Nelson, Rob Russell, Catherine
Takasugi
Title: Showcase of IE Seminars: From Initial Conception to the development ofrelevant tasks and activities
Brief Description: Four IE Seminar teachers will describe their IE Seminars, how
they conceived of them, brought them to fruition, and revised them over the years(except in the case of the new ones). Short descriptions of the seminars have been
included at the end of this document for your reference. How a balance of reading,writing, discussion, and listening materials can be included in these seminars will
be explained.
10:55 - 11:25 – Alan Schwartz
Title: Introducing an AI-Powered conversational English learning chatbot: Howwe got here and where we’re going
Brief Description: Alan Schwartz, the Founder and CEO of EnglishCentral, will
introduce the new AI-powered chatbot that is now fully operational in
EnglishCentral’s online extensive listening and vocabulary learning system. MiMi
can be described as an English learning tool where learners can “say anything” andget feedback on their vocabulary, grammar, nativeness, and fluency. While current
chatbots for English learning use fixed dialogs, limiting learners to apredetermined set of responses, with MiMi, users can speak freely, like they are
speaking to a human, and get instant feedback. The system will be demonstrated
and teachers will be able to put it to the test.
11:30 - 11:45 – Timothy Gutierrez
Title: Using Teacher Generated Writing for Teaching Writing Feedback
Brief Description: In this talk the presenter will discuss how he teaches IE
Writing III. The class uses a process writing approach influenced by Luhmann'sZettelkasten Method of generating knowledge for research. The course is divided
into two sections with students focusing on a classification essay in the first half
and a persuasive essay on the second half. Students follow the five weekly steps offinding articles, crafting a thesis statement and topic sentences, building withreferences, improving with details and compiling a first draft. Participants will heara brief overview of the presenter's syllabus, a summary of each step of the writing3

process before hearing about a writing feedback training method which he has
implemented in the class for the first time in 2023. If time allows, audience
members will begin to craft a similar writing feedback process for their English
writing class.
11:50 - 12:25 – ALL PARTICIPANTS
Title: Materials Exchange & Chance to Get to Know Trio-ing Partners
Brief Description: Teachers will prepare handouts of tasks, activities, prompts, orrubrics that they have found to be useful and share them with orientation
participants in a casual “show and tell” style. This will give teachers ideas for how
to approach the same course in different ways. NOTE: If teachers send files in MS
Word or PDF formats to DIAS in advance, even teachers who cannot attend the IE
Orienation will be able to benefit as they will be shared on the IE Website.
12:30 - 13:30 – ALL PARTICIPANTS- Lunch in one of the classrooms on 3rd floor of Goucher- Photos taken of new teachers for the IE Website- New teachers given campus tour and help setting up portal access atInfo Media Support Lounge
13:30 ~ ANY PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE UNANSWERED QUESTIONSSPEAKER INTRODUCTIONS
Joseph Dias co-coordinates the Integrated English Program for Aoyama
Gakuin University’s English Department and serves as the president of JALT'sLifelong Language Learning SIG. He has been engaged in Virtual Exchanges
that involve creative products for more than 15 years.

Timothy Gutierrez has been teaching academic writing at Aoyama Gakuin
University since 2015. His master’s degree at California State University,
Hayward was centered around writing pedagogy. His pedagogical influences for4

teaching writing are Warriner, Elbow, Casanave, and Luhmann. His students
find him to be tough but fair.

Kevin Kamermans holds MSc degrees in Legal Psychology and PsychologicalResearch. He is currently conducting a study on open research practices inPsychology at the University of Tokyo. He enjoys teaching on topics he has
previously conducted research on, such as criminal psychology and lie
detection. As a non-native English speaker from the Netherlands, he enjoys thechallenge of effectively communicating complex ideas to his students in alanguage that is foreign to both parties.

Forrest Mitchell Nelson is an assistant lecturer and coordinator of upper
level classes for the World Language Center at Soka University. He has also
been teaching in various departments of AGU since 2003. His experience intechnology for education has led him to experiment with different technologies
that aid teachers in the classroom. In his free time, Forrest enjoys performingwith various bands in and around the Kanto area.

Robert Russell is the author of articles and a book on coaching and emotional
intelligence. Rob has been teaching in schools and universities in Tokyo for thepast twenty-five years and has more than 1000 hours experience as a certified
professional coach and trained counsellor. He went back to school himself a few
years ago to complete a postgraduate degree in psychology and enjoys using his
knowledge of psychology and coaching techniques in the classes and seminars
he teaches at AGU.

Alan Schwartz is the Founder and CEO of EnglishCentral. With years ofexperience in the area of speech recognition with AT&T Labs, SpeechWorksand Nuance, he came to lead Nuance's Mobile & Automotive business as VP &General Manager. Alan has a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. fromHarvard. Teaching English in China just after college helped him understandthe realities of language teaching.

5Catherine Takasugi is currently a doctoral candidate at the Werklund Schoolof Education, University of Calgary, in Canada. School attendance problems inJapan is her area of focus. In addition, she is a part-time instructor at AoyamaGakuin University, Daito Bunka University, and Waseda University. She ismost passionate about her seminar course in identity and diversity where she
explores knowledge, knowing, refusals, fears, joy, and personal histories.

Short Descriptions of the IE Seminars described in the 10:10 10:50 slot—Showcase of IE Seminars: From Initial Conception to thedevelopment of relevant tasks and activities– Kamermans, K. #1: CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY
The goal of this seminar is to gain a better understanding of the behaviours,thoughts, and motivations of individuals who commit crimes. The course will
cover different types of criminals, including white-collar criminals, sex offenders,
but also violent offenders such as serial killers and mass murderers. We will lookat the different personalities, psychopathologies, and social influences that may
lead individuals to commit such crimes. For example, you can expect to learn more
about personality disorders such as psychopathy and narcissism and why these areoften linked to criminality. We will also spend time on important questions, suchas whether criminals are born as bad people or are created by bad parenting andtheir environment. Students will learn about these topics through short lectures,
active group discussions, and working on case studies. Towards the end of thecourse, you will be expected to do a small group presentation where you apply
your newfound knowledge to a criminal case that you find interesting. Because thecourse will mainly focus on cases from the Western world, you are encouraged tocontribute criminal cases from Japan or other parts of the world as well. Students
with all levels of English and public speaking ability are encouraged to join thisseminar.

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– Kamermans, K. #2: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
Forensic psychologists study human behaviour and thoughts that are relevant forthe legal and criminal justice system. This seminar will give you an introduction tosome of the most important and interesting topics that are studied by forensic
psychologists; this includes (but is not limited to) deception detection, thereliability of eyewitness testimonies, police interrogations and confession
techniques, and decision-making by judges and other legal experts. The classes
will consist of short lectures on each topic and frequent group discussions withinteractive exercises. For example, students will learn about the different methods
that experts use to decide if someone is telling a lie or the truth and we will
experiment with some of these methods in class. We will also discuss interestingcases, such as how it is possible that some people confess to crimes they did notcommit or why victims of a crime may remember things that never happened.
Students should expect occasional homework assignments in preparation forcertain classes. Towards the end of the course, we will conduct a mock trial inwhich students will give a small group presentation where they act as expert
witnesses on a case they find interesting. Students with all levels of English andpublic speaking ability are encouraged to join this seminar.
– Russell, R. : EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUCCESS IN WORK AND
LIFE
In this seminar you will learn how to use your natural emotional intelligence tohave a more successful and fulfilling personal and working life. Throughdiscussions, videos, films, short lectures and activities, you will have the chance tolearn more about yourself (your personality, unique strengths, values etc.) and how
to build healthy habits of behaviour and communication that will help you create
long-lasting and satisfying relationships. Experiential activities in class are an
important part of this seminar. We will also use Hans Rosling’s book ‘Factfulness’
to help you measure your knowledge of the world as it really is and learn easy toapply techniques for controlling your fears and biases and finding the truth
amongst all the sensationalism and rumours reported in the mainstream and socialmedia. In the final part of the course you will have the chance to do a project ofyour own choice which could, for example, be research on the career that is rightfor you, an analysis of a specific branch of the media such as SNS, TV, internet
news, or anything else related to emotional intelligence and your own interests.

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– Nelson, F. : HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: LEARNING FROM
THE PAST TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE
Get ready to embark on an engaging and educational journey focusing on humanrights. We’ll start by exploring the history and importance of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Students will have the chance to learn
about the challenges and achievements in human rights across different countries,
and the significant role NGOs and NPOs play in this field. Then, we’ll dive into anin-depth analysis of six key human rights cases successfully addressed by theUnited Nations over the past sixty years. This part of the seminar will enhance
understanding of international human rights strategies and their impact. Students
will also have the chance to choose a country and a specific human rights issue fora project. This will allow students to apply what they have learned and thinkcreatively about potential solutions. The seminar will not only broaden knowledgeof human rights but also improve presentation skills and encourage teamwork. TheMoodle Learning Management System will be used as the central platform forcommunication and organizing course materials.
– Takasugi, C. : DIVERSITY AND IDENTITY
In this seminar students will expand their sense of self by cultivating creative
capacities through engagement in poetry, yoga, meditation, photography, drama,drawing, and other activities. No previous experience in these areas is required,just an open mind and a spirit of adventure. Missions related to the creative outlets
introduced in the seminar will be assigned each week. After carrying them out,
students will discuss, perform, and explore concepts associated with them in class.
By the end of the semester each student will have created a reflective portfolio oforiginal work that will offer a glimpse into their true being. The portfolio will
include journal entries, creative documentation of their challenges, and selfevaluations. In this seminar, perfection is secondary to fearless participation andeffort. Come and find out who you are and who you want to be! Along the way it ishoped that you will find beauty in diversity through exploring mental, physical,and conceptual boundaries.

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