What's New?
Registration is open! The next ICLHE East Asia Symposium will be held on April 20, 2024 on the campus of the University of Niigata Prefecture. Something exciting to look forward to - we are introducing workshops to the event!
Mark your calendar and start making travel plans for a fun day of presentations, workshops, and networking.
Niigata is a quick trip on the shinkansen train from Tokyo and there are direct flights from Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka. International visitors can connect from Seoul, Shanghai, or Taipei.
More details below
About Us
We are the East Asia Regional Group of the ICLHE Association. Our objective is to enhance collaboration amongst professionals based in East Asia interested in the integration of content and language in higher education
Getting Together
The 2023 ICLHE Symposium was hosted on November 2 & 3 in Vienna on the theme of Taking Stock and Looking Forward. Howard Brown represented ICLHE East Asia on the Regional Group panel.
Member News
Recent publications, projects, and presentations by members of ICLHE East Asia
If you have member news that you'd like to share, please contact us
New Article
Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo co-authored an article in the International Journal of Educational Research titled "Academic success in ENlgish Medium Instruction programmes in Turkey: Exploring the effect of gender, motivation, and English Language proficiency".
Article
ICLHE East Asia leadership team member, Howard Brown, recently published a paper on employmnet trends in EMI programs in Japan.
Book Chapter
Keiko Tsuchiya, along with Liss Kerstin Slyvén, has a book chapter titled "CLIL in Various Forms Around the World" in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning.
Article
Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo published an article titled "The attitude of Iranian students and instructors toward implementing EMI through virtual exchange" in Frontiers in Education in May.
Book Chapter
Annette Bradford has a new book chapter, "EME in Japan: ROAD-MAPPING the Promises Made to Students", in the Routledge Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education book series.
Book
Input in English-medium Instruction by Francesca Costa and Cristina Mariotti, the 6th book in the EMI series edited by East Asia team leaders, Howard Brown and Annette Bradford, was released in mid-February.
A Q&A with...
Interviews with ICLHE practitioners and researchers about their latest work
We talk to Stephen McNamara of Kwansei Gakuin University about work on CLIL
interview by Mahboubeh RakhshandehrooWatch the video interview here
Stephen McNamara is a PhD Candidate at the University of Vienna, where his research focuses on the integration of cognition, discourse, and function, in undergraduate intercultural CLIL syllabi. His research findings have been presented across Japan, as well as in Europe and Asia. Stephen has worked in language-learning contexts in Japan for around twenty years and is currently an instructor of English as a Foreign Language at Kwansei Gakuin University.
He is also a reviewer for the Asian Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning (Asian CLIL), as well as for The Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT) PanSIG.His publications include:
- Pilot: cognitive ciscourse functions in interculutral studies lessons. Kwansei Gakuin University Humanities Review (28). (2023)
- A tale of two syllabi: towards theory driven CLIL. PanSIG Journal. (2022) (with M. Griffiths)
- Locating content, language, and cognition in a CLIL art history biography activity. The Journal of the Institute of Language and Culture, Konan University. (2021)
Program Spotlight
Special Topics in CLIL Courses
Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies
by Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo,
Kwansei Gakuin University
Special Topics CLIL courses are part of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program offered by the Department of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Unlike the usual EAP courses in this department, the Special Topics courses do not follow a strictly coordinated curriculum. It is the instructor's responsibility to select an appropriate course topic, define clear goals and objectives, design the curriculum, and develop effective materials.
Second-year, higher-(language-ability)-stream students are required to take one Special Topics in the spring and one Special Topics in the fall. Most of these courses are taught by full-time instructors, but part-time teachers may also have the opportunity to teach one. The courses are primarily content-based, hard CLIL while integrating and recycling the EAP skills the students have acquired in the core skills courses. Unlike the EAP courses, students are not divided into courses based on their English proficiency. Students are given the option to self-select the special topics course that interest them (based on the course descriptors); those who miss the registration deadline are placed at random. Therefore, these courses are mixed levels (within the higher stream). To meet the needs of a wide range of learners, instructors are encouraged to develop curricula and materials that are flexible enough to accommodate a broad range of abilities. Among the topics covered in CLIL courses are English Translations of Japanese Literature, International Relations, Internalization of Higher Education, and Science of Health and Happiness.
Previously Featured Programs
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September 2022
March 2022
November 2021
October 2020
July 2020
April 2020
Leadership Team
Coordinator
Mahboubeh RakhshandehrooAssociate Lecturer,Kwansei Gakuin University
Co-Coordinator
/Treasurer
Yoko KusumotoAssociate Professor,Tokyo University of Technology
Events Leader
Howard BrownProfessor,University of Niigata Prefecture
Newsletter Editor
Maria Vassileva
Associate Professor,
Nagoya University
Social Media Coordinator
Graham MackenzieProject Associate Professor,
Sophia University
Website Coordinator
Annette BradfordAssociate, Oxford EMIAdjunct Fellow, Temple University Japan
Community Outreach - Japan
Keiko TsuchiyaAssociate Professor,Yokohama City University
Community Outreach - Vietnam
Tho Doan Vo
Lecturer,
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Community Outreach - Thailand
Banchakarn Sameephet
Lecturer,
Khon Kaen University
