Department of Liberal Arts

Koyama Dennis

  (小山 デニス)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Degree
M.A.(The University of Hawai'i)
Ph.D.(Purdue University)

Researcher number
60817980
J-GLOBAL ID
201901018265597582
researchmap Member ID
7000029063

Courses taught:
Overview of Data Science
Thinking Processes (critical thinking)
Academic English Skills
English Composition 1
English Composition 2
Public Speaking

(Subject of research)
Validity of TOEFL iBT Speaking Section for Japanese University Students in English-Medium Courses
Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking in English-Medium Courses
International Perspectives on Professional Development for Language Instructors


Papers

 18
  • Dennis Koyama, Takehiro Watanabe
    Teaching in Higher Education, 28(5) 1108-1117, Jul 4, 2023  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
  • Dennis Koyama, Ghada Gherwash
    Go Online! Reconfiguring Writing Courses for the New, Virtual World, 171-188, Oct 5, 2022  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at college and graduate levels using creative hybrid, blended, and online/remote/virtual modes, this book should be required reading for all teachers and administrators. The volume features those new to online teaching alongside experienced online writing teachers. Referencing the latest research in online teaching and writing, contributors share stories of crucial successes as well as unforeseen difficulties. Essays address compelling concerns such as engaging diversity and cultural inclusivity, social justice, as well as global learning in online writing courses; radically reshaping graduate seminars for online delivery; flipping classrooms to promote more successful writing instruction; fostering greater community within online writing classrooms; examining the problems and possibilities of Learning Management Systems for teaching writing; sustaining remote writing-centered archival research; avoiding Zoom fatigue in writing classes by using design thinking; utilizing expressive arts in online writing classes; mentoring doctoral students online; constructing meaningful approaches to online peer writing feedback; as well as making access and inclusivity central to online writing course design.
  • Chris Harwood, Dennis Koyama
    Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 16(2) 191-203, Mar 15, 2022  Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding author
  • Gary G. Fogal, Dennis Koyama
    Journal of Second Language Writing, 55 100873-100873, 2022  Peer-reviewedLast author
  • Dennis Koyama
    Development of Innovative Pedagogical Practices for a Modern Learning Experience, Dec 20, 2021  InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
    In the current volume, the selected studies have been grouped into three thematic sections, presenting readers with a set of distinct but related research on meaningful issues for a modern learning experience. The first three chapters present professional and teacher development perspectives and collectively shed light on how to develop, maintain, and improve pre and in-service teacher training and professional development. The second set of four chapters provide research findings that describe the results of direct applications of modern learning elements through course assignments and teaching approaches. The final five chapters focus on critical thinking and range in their focus from classroom-based studies to full-scale curriculum reform.

Books and Other Publications

 1

Presentations

 38

Research Projects

 2