This question will be answered by surveying studies that have addressed the role of gender in a variety of L2 areas. A sampling of these areas includes learning strategies, anxiety, attitudes and motivation, language skills, classroom behavior, social interaction and speech acts. Schwarte will discuss the practical implications of the findings. She also teaches in the interdisciplinary linguistics program and in the ESL instruction program for ISU international students. Her current research interests focus on cross-cultural differences in pragmatic competence and gender issues in both English and second language acquisition.
Japan is no exception.
The following questions, among others, are being addressed by professionals and the Ministry of Education in Japan. A consistent and coherent model that allows for the discussion of these questions from the viewpoint of teaching English as a country-specific objective, or teaching English to gain access to a more international experience will be presented. Kensaku Yoshida is professor of English in the Faculty of Foreign Studies and Director of the Center for the Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. He served on the committee to revise the senior high school study guidelines for the Ministry of Education and on the advisory committee of the Ministry of Education to revise English education in Japan. He is a regular lecturer for the Ministry of Education-sponsored teacher training seminars held throughout Japan every year.