Sometimes we (teachers) get irritated by seeing students touching electronic dictionaries. I needed to work out some ways to put students away from that tool just for a short while to let them THINK.Last week, in one of my English classes(English V/international studies majors 3rd year), we were working on THINKING of the “topic” for some groups of words. I told the students to put away the electronic device. Instead I gave one English-Japanese or English-English paper dictionary for each group (of 3-4 students). No Japanese-English dictionaries were allowed. It did take more time to let them jump into electronic tools, of course, but I thought their  brain storming process was far more important than to proceed my teaching plans.

2008年3月6日（木曜日）外国語教室主催、国際関係学部新カリキュラム用テキストに関するワークショップを行いました。対象：国際関係学部英語1-4担当者講師：小栗10:30~12:00Focus on Grammarシリーズ13:00~14:30Reading Powerシリーズ教材の特徴と活用方法、テキスト著者の意図と学習目標、質疑応答＆情報交換を行いました。