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Name McBRIDE Paul

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Contributor to the JACET ELF SIG Website: reports on ELF SIG meetings

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2016

　

～ Present

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https://jacetelf.wordpress.com/reports-on-sig-activities/sig-meetings/

First meeting, Tamagawa University, April 23, 2016
•Presenter: Dr. Masaki Oda, Tamagawa University
•Title of the talk: CELF Reflection: A journey to the establishment of a university ELF program
•Report: Following a tour of the newly renovated Center for English Lingua Franca (CELF), Professor Oda reflected on the long journey to establish the Center, which conducts a campus-wide English language program at Tamagawa University. He explained how the newly opened ELF Study Hall 2015 has been planned in accordance with the English as a Lingua Franca program, and offered a diachronic analysis of developments in applied linguistics in order to illustrate various difficulties the university has had to face. He reflected on the establishment of the CELF, made some suggestions for other institutions who are trying to start ELF programs and listed issues to be discussed further by the academic community.