Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble

"Do you want some kittens of your own?" he asked Mudge.
Mudge grunted and wagged his tail again. (p. 40)

Today I read Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble, one of the many books in the Henry and Mudge series (RTR2). This book consists of three stories about the young boy Henry and his dog Mudge. The quotation above is from The Kittens, the last of the three stories. Henry likes some kittens and he always takes Mudge to see them. Mudge also likes them, and he licks them.

Like all the Henry and Mudge books, this one is really cute. The drawings by Suçie Stevenson are really good.

Welcome to Basic English 1!

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the instructor’s blog for Basic English 1! This blog gives you important information about the course, so please write down the address now, and check the blog every week! As you can see in your address bar, the address is:

basicenglish3.wordpress.com

Just type the address into the address bar (not the search field!) of your browser. Add a bookmark to your browser, and write down the address in your notebook.

 

The course has two main goals:

1. To get accustomed to reading English books daily, in order to build basic knowledge of English and increase reading speed. This will prepare you for the Extensive Reading and Listening courses.
2. To get accustomed to writing in English regularly on your blog, to build confidence and fluency and to raise your grammatical awareness. This will prepare you for Writing courses and for Extensive Reading and Listening courses.

It also has a secondary goal:

• Learn how to use computers in your English study.

Simply stated, in order to pass the course with a good grade, you need to:

1. Read 100 English books;
2. Keep a record in the 読書記録手帳 of all of those books;
3. Write reviews on your blog of 35 of those books.

There are about 100 days in the semester. So you basically need to read one book every day.

You can find thousands of suitable books in the University Library on the 3rd floor, in 洋書 section 428. Please look for that section today!

Basics of Qualitative Research Design Berg Ch. 2

Before engaging in a qualitative research project, check out this slideshow:



Basics of Qualitative Research Design Berg Ch. 2 Leedy and Ormrod Ch ppt download: Qualitative methodology Data in words rather than numbers Non-positivistic orientation Includes:  Field research and ethnography  Observation, case studies  Qualitative interviewing  Action research  Historical comparative analysis

AWL Sublist 1 sentences

an analysis of 210 journals’ language guidelines was a good start for a study such as this
このような研究では、210の学術雑誌の言語ガイドラインの分析は良い始め方であった。

these were the source of so many of the rigid guidelines identified in the study.
これらは、本研究で見つかった硬いガイドラインの発行者であった。

the recent developments in emerging fields of written ELF and ERPP in global contexts indicate there is academic support for change
世界規模の ELF と ERPP の分野においての最近の発展から、学界では改革を支持する者がいると言える。

Some academic publications are responding to the variations of language being produced by writers from around the globe
ある学術出版物が世界各国の著者が書く英語の様々な種類に対応しようとしている。

Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier’s WebShop.

Tornado Alley

The clouds get darker and darker. In two or three places, you see tornado funnels starting to come down. If they come down near you, you'll be in big trouble.
"This is not good," you say to yourself.

I am in great trouble. Will I escape from the tornado? As you can see, this is an adventure story. Like the other books in the Atama-ii Books series, it is an interactive story: I need to make choices at most steps in the story. This was actually my third time to read the story, and this time I has a good result: I didn't die in the tornado, and I managed to get a good story and sell it for lots of money. Would you dare to go to Tornado Alley and stay out when a storm comes?

Of course, living in Kumamoto, I'm used to typhoons. But it is not so usual for really bad weather to hit Kumamoto city, and I have never been in great danger. I wonder what it would be like to actually see a tornado?

Ito, L. (2015). Tornado Alley. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.

Hello, everyone

Hello, everyone, nice to meet you. My name is Rick L., and I'm happy to be teaching this course. I'm from the UK, and I'm a professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto. I live in Kumamoto City with my wife and one daughter (the other daughter is away at university).
My field is applied linguistics, and I'm especially interested in sociocultural theory, writing, and computer-assisted language learning.
In my free time, I like reading novels, watching movies, and playing table tennis.
I'm looking forward to working with you over these three days.

A couple of good books for writing your sotsuron (graphs, charts, figures)

One important part of writing a graduation paper (sotsuron) for many students is creating charts or figures. This can be a difficult thing to do well. So in this post I'm going to tell you about a couple of books that might be useful. (Also, please check out my Booklog shelf for items tagged visualization.)

The first one is called Effective Data Visualization. This book takes you through the basic principles of displaying your data so that readers can understand it.

Effective Data Visualization 著者 : Evergreen SAGE Publications, Inc 発売日 : 2016-05-04 ブクログでレビューを見る»

PUKLIB: 洋書（３Ｆ）302.2 E 89

The second one, Displaying Your Findings, teaches you how to format your graphs or figures in the style approved by the American Psychological Association.

I hope that you will one or both of these books interesting.

By American Psychological Association - Displaying Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Figures Posters and Presentations: 6th (sixth) Edition 著者 : American Psychological Association 発売日 : 2011 ブクログでレビューを見る»

PUKLIB: 3F (洋書) 150 N 71

I like Corduroy

Yesterday, I read a Corduroy book. It was great!

Corduroy's Christmas Surprise 著者 : Don Freeman Grosset & Dunlap 発売日 : 2000-09-25 ブクログでレビューを見る»

My first screencastify

indicate

Their study indicated that the different impact on students' writing is mostly due to the inherent affordances of chats and text-based communication.

those findings contradict the findings of Lin's (2014) meta-analysis study, which indicated no significant moderating effect of modality

After participating in a microblogging activity, Zheng and Warschauer (2015) indicated that ELL students experienced higher writing gains compared to their non-ELL peers.

consist

Thinking is shaped by the process of social interaction, which consists of complex dialogues.

context, contextual

researchers could further explore how contextual factors (e.g., genres of writing, collaborative characteristics) affect the adoption and selection of modes and languages

Researchers could further explore how contextual factors affect the adoption and selection of modes and languages.

the contextual factors influencing students' collaborative writing

Elola and Oskoz also suggested several future research directions in the context of new digital genres in writing.

Vandommele et al.'s study compared multimodal composition between in-school and out-of-school settings, looking at writing outcomes in the two contexts.

Involve

These out-of-school literacy practices, covering topics of interest to students and mediated by multiple modalities, all involve certain forms of reading and writing.

These out-of-school literacy practices all involve certain forms of reading and writing.

Backstage Pass

Suddenly, two people start fighting near the front row. The security guard runs to stop them.
"Come on!" Julie says.
Before you can speak, she jumps up and runs to the backstage door. However, there is another security guard. He grabs Julie's arm.
The guard is busy with Julie, you think. Maybe this is my chance!

Backstage Pass is book number 4 in the Atama-ii Books series. As I have mentioned before, Atama-ii Books is a series of books edited by Marcos Benevides intended for learners of English. These graded readers have simple vocabulary and grammar, and a total length of about 2,500 words, but the content is suitable for adults. A distinctive feature of the series is that, at various key points in the stories, the reader, who is also the protagonist, is presented with two choices regarding how to proceed. These choices add up to eight possible story paths, some ending in failure or even death.

This was my second time to read Backstage Pass. The previous time, I had only boring or unfortunate endings, but today I had two very good endings: One involved me appearing on stage with my favorite band, the Martians, and the other ended in my saving thousands of people from a fire!

The multiple story paths are, in my opinion, best experienced in multiple reading sessions. Each time you revisit a book, you can choose different story paths. This will lead to multiple rereadings of parts of the book, resulting in more fluent and confident reading.

VOCABULARY
riff: リフ、反復楽句

Ito, L. (2014). Backstage pass. Florida: Atama-ii Books.

Hunter in the Darkness

"One of you must give your life...Who will give their life, so others may live?"

Today I read Hunter in the Darkness, book number 5 in the Atama-ii Books series. In the book, I am the disciple of a famous vampire hunter who is bitten by a vampire, so I have to become a professional vampire hunter. I set out to find Aku, a famous and fierce vampire.

When I find out where Aku is, I ask for a volunteer to sacrifice him or herself so that we can follow the vampire to the cave. I take two helpers with me. In the cave I face the ultimate test: can I kill my former master?

This was my second or third time to read the book, and finally I found a good ending!

Habeeb, R. (2014). Hunter in the darkness. Florida: Atama-ii Books.

A bit about me

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Academic Writing course. Nice to meet you. I'm Rick Lavin, and I live in Saburo in Kumamoto City. I am married with two daughters. My elder daughter is a first-year university student. She lives in Osaka, but she is coming back to Kumamoto today. I work in the Department of English Language & Literature at PUK. In my free time I like watching movies. Most recently, I have seen Wonder Woman. I also like playing the koto but recently I don't have time to play it.
Anyway, I hope we can have some fun over the next four days learning English together.

constitute

Merely recalling information constitutes an instance of additional learning.

involve

Among studies on learning of technical words that involved reading, Parry (1991, 1993) provided a detailed description of the L2 learning process and outcomes.

CLIL involves creating a context in which language is both the medium of communication as well as the object of learning.

contribute

Familiarity with a particular vocabulary item (or lack thereof) contributed to the lower number of meaning components.

This study therefore sets out to contribute to filling this gap in our understanding of more advanced vocabulary learning in two areas.

This study therefore contributes to filling this gap in our understanding of more advanced vocabulary learning in two areas.

role/play a role

Knowledge of words undoubtedly plays an important role in the educational development of students.

Despite its prominent role in the development of subject knowledge, the acquisition of technical vocabulary from academic learning has not yet received much attention in the literature.