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I was greatly affected by the faculty members’ devoted attitudes in teaching. Regardless of their hectic schedule, they diligently cared about each student’s learning throughout the program. I appreciate not only the subject matter they taught, but also the real professionalism as teachers they demonstrated. I realized, when I returned to Japan, that this attitude is the crucial factor to be a good teacher at elementary and secondary school level. It surely contributes to my current career.
Akihiko Sasaki
MATESOL, Computer-Assisted Language Learning Certificate 2003
Nishinomiya, Japan
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- To improve each learner’s ability to use English effectively in its cultural context by developing appropriate communication strategies, enhancing fluency and accuracy, and increasing cultural awareness.
- To make available to each learner opportunities to engage in effective and meaningful communication in English within the classroom, on campus, and in the community and wider world.
- To assess each learner’s language learning needs and strengths, and to work with each to facilitate progress toward personal and professional goals.
- To foster in each learner an awareness of individual language learning strengths and strategies, and to encourage the development of individual autonomy in the learning process.
- To increase each learner’s understanding of and sensitivity to other cultures, and to introduce pertinent social and cultural patterns of American life.
- To introduce learners to the formal and informal expectations of American higher education, and to foster progress towards academic goals through an emphasis on academic preparation.
- To identify and honor collaborative and innovative leadership in learners, faculty and staff alike.
- To create and continuously maintain an innovative and professionally responsible model program of second language instruction in which faculty and teachers-in-training collaborate to contribute to personal, professional, and program development, and are appropriately recognized for those contributions.
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