Welcome to the Global Studies and Research (Blair, 2009) index page at Aichi Gakuin University.

• This seminargets students thinking about several countries: Britain, Mexico, France, Italy, China, and Russia.

• We read about each country's history in Japanese and summarize the information that interests us in basic English sentences.

• Using Wikipedia and other resources on the World Wide Web, students research more about historical figures, write up short research reports, and discuss what they found out.

• We review useful grammar from high school and junior high:
  • S-V-O grammar

  • Making questions

  • Verb forms

  • Noun phrases

• We analyze and evaluate past student research papers to gain an understanding of the research writing process.

• We use both Japanese and English to maximize student-teacher communication. Hopefully as students become more comfortable with English they use more and more of it in class.

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