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language teacher researcher, language motivation, dictogloss, SielpA Books, Japan, wine, staffordshire bull terrier

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 1d

This week, I take a look at our new book published with Candlin & Mynard. Many thanks to my co-editor, Matt Wilson, for always keeping it positive, all the authors for their amazing patience, and Jo Mynard for her support in the publication process.

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Publication Day for Screen Media in Language Education

I mentioned this on my private social media channels earlier this week, but today—October 10—is the official publication date for a new book I’ve been involved in: Screen Media in Language Education.

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 4d

New book coming out this Friday! Many thanks to Jo Mynard and her team at Candlin & Mynard for their amazing support and guidance. Huge congratulations also to all the authors for their incredible patience and brilliant writing. More about this book in this week's blog post．

Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 8d

This week's blog post looks at a new course I'm teaching and the first theory of motivation we'll be discussing.

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Teaching 課題探究演習: A New Adventure

This semester I’ll be leading a course called 課題探究演習 (Kadai Tankyū Enshū, perhaps translated as "Project-Based Research Workshop"). The idea of the class is to give first- and second-year students a t...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 15d

This week, I take a look at a boardgame about the growth mindset I created for tomorrow's talk in Kobe.

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Growth Mindset: The Game

This weekend, I’ll be heading to Kobe to give a workshop on the growth mindset to university students. Thank you, Ai-sensei, for the invitation! I’m really looking forward to sharing some ideas about ...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 22d

This week's blog post takes a sneak preview to an upcoming chapter on TBLT and student motivation.

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First Findings: TBLT, Self-Worth, and Student Motivation

Earlier this year, together with colleagues from Iran and China, I put out a call for papers for an edited volume tentatively titled Intervention Studies in Motivating Language Learners. As the name suggests, the book br...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · 29d

In this week's blog, I take a look at
a new book that will be published by SielpA Books this coming November.

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Introducing A Running Start

As many of you know, SielpA Books is still a young publisher, and at the moment we have only three textbooks. That is about to change. Over the past year, together with my university colleagues, I hav...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reflections on JACET2025.

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Reflections on JACET 2025

August is always a busy time of year. Classes finish at the end of July or in the first week of August, so there’s marking and grading to do. It’s also the season for two of the biggest conferences fo...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Sep 2

This Friday's blog post is going to be a reflection on this year's JACET conference, including my co-presented workshop with the brilliant @martharamirezco

But, before that, Martha had some lovely words to say.

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#growthmindset #flippedlearning #inclassflip #collaboration #teamwork #workshopintokyo | Martha Ramirez Rodríguez

One of the greatest highlights of visiting Japan has been meeting Adrian Leis Ph.D. It's been about 10 years since I first connected with Adrian. We were both working on flipped learning from opposi...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just a short post this week, but just as sweet!

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Why did you become a teacher?

Every summer in Japan, many fourth-year university students who dream of becoming teachers sit through rigorous tests and interviews. Although I am no longer directly involved in teacher training, I s...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Aug 21

This week marks 28 years since I first came to Japan. In today's blog, I look back at an English newspaper I used to write and how it has helped me even today.

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#JETprogram
#assistantlanguageteacher
#福島女子高校
#teachingEnglish

Today (or maybe it was yesterday) marks 28 years since I first came to Japan. Twenty-eight years! Wow. I still remember so many details from that first day—too many to fit into a single blog post.

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Aug 15

In this week's blog post, I look at a discussion topic that emerged during last weekend's JASELE conference.

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Eye Contact: A search for words or a signal for help

Last weekend, I participated in the JASELE conference in Saitama. This is a conference I attend every year, and usually I give a presentation. This year, I spoke about self-confidence and self-determi...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Aug 7

This week's blog covers a short seminar I did this week

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Two-hour Seminar

I have mentioned in previous blog entries that I sometimes visit a local high school to give workshops on presentation skills. Every year, some students from that same high school visit me in my offic...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Aug 6

My paper on speech to text and self confidence is now available. It's open access, so please share, retweet, download, cite, etc. Top tier journal, so I'm very pleased with this one!
#CALL
#languagelearning
#flippedlearning

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How speech-to-text technology affects pronunciation gains and self-confidence in EFL learners

Pronunciation training is a crucial aspect of second language learning. However, instructional approaches often struggle to balance accuracy-focused feedback with maintaining learner confidence. Th...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 31

In this week's blog post, I take a look at how AI can make us fall in love with ourselves:

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When AI Makes You Fall in Love With Yourself

I often like to listen to the Australian radio station, Triple J. It can be streamed live and they play a lot of good music, more often than not, promoting Australian artists and up-and-coming musicia...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 24

This week, I take a look at how I assess my students' speaking skills.

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Assessing Speaking Without the Headaches

We are almost at the end of the semester here in Japan, which means it’s time for tests and final assignments. Throughout the course using the Dictogloss in Action textbooks, I’ve been able to assess ...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 17

In this week's blog, I give a brief overview of my presentation this weekend and upcoming paper.

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Preview to JALTCALL

This weekend at JALTCALL 2025, I’m presenting findings from a study I conducted last year with my university students on the use of speech-to-text (S2T) technology in English pronunciation instruction...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 15

I plan on joining your presentation. See you there for sure

Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 15

My presentation for #JALTCALL this weekend is ready to go. I will be talking about . . . . well, you can see what I'll be talking about in my title slide below. Hope to see some friendly faces there! (The paper for this study will be published very soon. More on that to come!)

Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 10

In this week's post, I look at studying abroad.

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Studying Abroad

I’ve heard somewhere that you only regret things that you don’t do: Whatever challenge you are faced with, it is always best to at least give it a try. I certainly have a regret when I was younger: I...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jul 3

Talking about emotions in language education is this week's blog.

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Emotions in Language Learning

In this week's class with my second-year students (around 20 years old), we explored the topic, “When was a time that you were sad?” The lesson included a pre-class reading about different types of te...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jun 27

Didn't get a chance to put this on social media yesterday. But here's my blog post on incorporating heavy metal music into teacher training.

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Heavy Metal in Training for the Teaching Examination

Earlier this week, I led a workshop for students at my university who are preparing for the 教員採用試験 (teacher employment examination) for English teachers. While I’ve been involved in training students ...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jun 19

In this week's blog, we look at bringing metacognition into the language classroom. #dictogloss

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Teaching Students to Think About Their Thinking

In this week’s classes with my second-year students, we moved into Module 2, Lesson 5 — the tenth lesson in this course and the final lesson of Module 2. We’ve explored a range of topics already, but ...

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Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jun 19

I look forward to your presentation!

Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jun 19

The schedule for #JALTCALL 2025 is in. I'll be presenting my research on using speech-to-text technology and self-confidence on the last day of the conference (July 20) at 12:15. Looking forward to my first JALTCALL conference in almost 10 years! I wonder who will be there.

Adrian Leis @adrianleis.bsky.social · Jun 14

Not yet.