Author Archives: Jodias

About Jodias

J.V. Dias, an American from San Jose, California, is currently the co-coordinator of the Integrated English (IE) Program and a member of the Communications Unit of Aoyama Gakuin University's English Department. In the last few years he has published articles that appeared in two TESOL texts: Dias, J.V., & Kikuchi, K. (2010). Designing listening tasks: Lessons learned from needs analysis studies. In Teaching Listening: Voices From the Field (N. Ashcraft and A. Tran, Eds.). Alexandria, VA: TESOL, pp. 9-31. AND... Dias, J.V. (2009). A Web of Controversy: Bringing Critical Thinking Skills Online. In Adult language learners: Context and innovation (G. Strong and A. Smith, Eds.). Alexandria, VA: TESOL, pp. 97-105.

Special lecture related to the Tokyo English Lifeline

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Jodias

Ms. Vickie Skorji, the assistant director of the Tokyo English Life Line (TELL), and Lori Wigmore, the Director of TELL’s Children and Families, will grace our Sagamihara Campus on Thursday, December 16th to give a talk related to the work … Continue reading →

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Doctors of the World Special Lecture

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Jodias

Speaker: Ms. Prune Helfter Topic: The work of Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) Location: Sagamihara Campus, Building E-101 Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 Time: 1:10 PM to 2:40 PM (3rd period) Ms. Prune Helfter, the General Manager of … Continue reading →

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Activity to help prepare students for Médecins du Monde lecture

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Jodias

One of our Core teachers, Mr. James Broadbridge, has generously shared an activity he devised to help prepare students for the event. It involves watching a YouTube video about the activities of Médecins du Monde and doing some related exercises, … Continue reading →

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Video editing workshops for teachers

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Jodias

On June 27th and July 11th video editing workshops were held by representatives of Apple Japan (Satoe Fujita and Azusa Matsumoto) at the Sagamihara and Shibuya campuses, respectively. Nearly 20 teachers, teachers’ assistants, and Foreign Language Library staff members attended … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the 2009/2010 academic year!

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Jodias

Gregory Strong and I would like to welcome you to the IE Program Web site and wish you all the best for this academic year, which brings many changes and challenges. Numerous improvements have been made to the IE Core … Continue reading →

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“Self-directed listening” sites

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Jodias

Use the following sites for the self-directed listening part of the new IE Active Listening course: Listening Resources for Language Learners (many of these include transcripts) Challenging Listening Materials Intended for Natives These videos may be used for various tasks … Continue reading →

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The new IE Active Listening Course

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Jodias

From the spring semester of 2009 we will introduce a revamped IE Listening section, which we will call IE Active Listening. To summarize the changes: Although the first and last classes of the semester will take place as plenaries, for … Continue reading →

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Back again by popular demand !!

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Jodias

I’m pleased to announce the re-opening of our new website. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you when our former server conked out. Our new web host has an excellent reputation and we will employ redundant back-up systems. If … Continue reading →

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