Our last meeting was at Aichi University Toyohashi Campus
on Sunday 19th April 2015.

Speaker: Atsushi Iida, Assistant Professor in the University Education Center at Gunma University



Title: Haiku in the Second Language Writing Classroom: Theory into Practice

One of the issues of Japanese EFL college students is that they cannot express what they want to say in English
though they have approximately six years of English learning experiences (Iida, 2011).
What happens in this context is that students can write grammatically correct sentences,
but they don’t feel attached in their writing. Whatever genre second language writers work on,
voice should appear in their texts.

This presentation discussed the issue of voice in second language writing and explored how
to develop it by composing haiku in a second language. After exploring how the social-expressivist
approach can facilitate Japanese students’ develop­ment of voice, the presenter discussed how haiku
fits in with that approach and showed some activities for use in the Japanese EFL classroom.

Find out about our March meeting