Language Teaching Research 136216882211288-136216882211288 Nov 2022 [Refereed]
The study looks at the case of a university language center in Japan that administers a compulsory English language course. To provide some level of standardization for the course, and to better meet the educational aims of the center, a content a...
Matthew Y. Schaefer   Samuel Reid   Anna Bordilovskaya   
Language Learning in Higher Education 12(1) 87-104 May 2022 [Refereed]
Abstract
Students leaving the Japanese secondary education system have typically spent hundreds of hours studying English grammatical structures and memorizing vocabulary lists but relatively little time putting that knowledge to communicative u...
Matthew Turner   Matthew Schaeffer   Robert Lowe   
JALT Postconference Publication - Issue 2020.1; August 2021 2020(1) 53-53 Aug 2021 [Refereed]
Professional development and community engagement are important parts of maintaining commitment in language teaching. Podcasting is emerging as a form of professional development and engagement with the English language teaching community, both th...
Matthew W. Turner, Matthew Y. Schaefer, Robert J. Lowe, Stephanie A. Houghton(Part:Joint author, p.261-287)
Springer 2020
Schaefer, M. Y. & Brereton, P. (2020). Developing understandings of reflective practice and teacher training. In R. J. Lowe & L. Lawrence (Eds.), Duoethnography in English language teaching: Research, reflection, and classroom application (pp. 133...