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. 

Tornado Alley

Atama-ii Books: Tornado Alley

You are a writer. When a tornado hits, will you write the big news story...or will you become the news?

Today I read another Atama-ii book, Tornado Alley. It is No. 9 in the series. As with the other Atama-ii books, it is an interactive adventure, with eight different story paths. I read two story paths today. Because I had already read this book before and things had not ended well for me, it was my intention to play it safe, but I ended up dying on the first path, after worrying about a dog caught in a tornado. The second path I took wasn't very exciting, but I lived and made some money.

The language in these Atama-ii Books is very simple (A1+ on the CEFR scale), but the stories are all very interesting. The choices keep you awake and involve you in the story, but there are only two choices at each juncture, so making the choices is not difficult. I think most people usually read two or three story paths each time, so the books are suitable for re-reading two or three times. Doing so can help students increase their reading speed.

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

A bit about me

Hello, everyone, I'm Rick Lavin. I'm from the UK and I work at PUK. I'm the head of the English Department there. My field of research is applied linguistics. I'm especially interested in writing, technology in language learning, and sociocultural theory. In my free time, I like playing the koto and watching movies. Actually, these days I almost never play the koto but I do find time to watch some movies. I live with my wife and two daughters near PUK.