Social Issues in Song

My Research

Below, I offer the research I have conducted in the hope that it may be of use to other researchers. My previous research has been in the field of language teaching with the specific area of study of HIV/AIDS education in Japan. Feel free to download whatever you need for your own research.

My current research deals with music from the Spanish Civil War and the Catalan independence movement.

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Books

• An AIDS Seminar (download)

  12 units covering many aspects of the epidemic September 2006. 49 pages. Self-published.

• What You Should Know: The HIV/AIDS Workbook for the Japanese EFL Classroom (download)

  September 2003. 70 pages. Self-published. Recordings avaiable upon request.

• WEB SITE Japan AIDS Prevention Awareness Network

  Teaching materials, lesson plans, news, project ideas, student quizzes, for the EFL classroom. [Note: JAPANetwork folded in November 2024. The website no longer exists. The files are made available here for anyone to use free of charge.]

Articles

• From Vietnam to Iraq: A Content Analysis of Protest Music (download)

  Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University; No. 10; pp. 247 - 261. December 2008.

• Eggplants and English: A brief look at students’ use of English outside the EFL classroom

  Studies in Humanities and Cultures, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University; No. 17. June 30, 2012.

• First Class Teaching: Building rapport between teachers and students

  In A. Stewart (Ed.), JALT2010 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo: JALT, August 2011. With Ben Backwell. (Available upon request.)

• Goal-Setting in EFL Revisited: Is it really useful?

  Studies in Humanities and Cultures, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University; No. 15, p. 83-92, June 2011.

• Social Issues in the EFL Classroom: The student’s perspective

  Studies in Humanities and Cultures, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University, No. 11; pp. 79 - 92. June 2009.

• Empowering or Force-Feeding? Raising Controversial Issues in the Japanese EFL Classroom

  Journal of Engaged Pedagogy, 8:1; pp. 14 - 25. March 2009.

• Tango ‘Lessons’ and Decision-Making in Teaching

  Gender Awareness in Language Education Newsletter (JALT publication), Summer 2006.

• Where the Twain Should Meet: Public Health Policy and... the Language Classroom?

  Gender Awareness in Language Education Newsletter (JALT publication), Autumn 2005, p. 3-10.

• An Overview of the AIDS Drug Industry and Drug Access Policy in Lower Income Countries

  Japan AIDS Prevention Awareness Network Newsletter, Japan AIDS Prevention Awareness Network: Summer 2005, p. 14-17.

• Cynthia Nelson Seminar, Tokyo; Issues in Gender and Sexual Identity: What Educators Should Know

  Gender Awareness in Language Education Newsletter (JALT publication), Spring 2005, p. 26-30.

• Gendered Marginalization Processes in Japanese Higher Education: Theory and Practice

  ALT 2004 Conference Proceedings, K. Bradford-Watts, C. Ikeguchi, & M. Swanson (Eds.), p. 911-922. Tokyo: JALT. With Cornwell, S., Mochain, R., & Simon-Maeda, A.

• Creating Discerning Students: Media Literacy in EFL

  CADEMIA, Journal of the Nanzan Academic Society, Literature and Language, Nanzan University; Vol. 76, p. 53-63, June 2004.

• ‘Reading’ the Media: Introducing Media Literacy in EFL

  Explorations in Teacher Education (JALT publication), 12:1, p. 15-21, Winter 2004.

• From Classroom to Campus to Community

  The Proceedings of PAC3 at JALT 2002, p. 211-219; October 2003.

• Student-Generated Focus Points and Self-Assessment

  ACADEMIA, Journal of the Nanzan Academic Society, Literature and Language, Nanzan University; Vol. 74, p. 121-134, June 2003.

• Changing Teachers in Midstream

  The Language Teacher, 27:4, p. 21-22, April 2003, with Brad Deacon. (Available upon request.)

• The Global and Local Issue of AIDS

  The Language Teacher, 27:3, p. 25-28; March 2003.

• Dealing with Social Issues: Helping teachers overcome emotional barriers

  The Proceedings of PAC3 at JALT 2001, p. 83-87, October 2002.

• Panel: Diverse Identities

  Women Educators and Language Learners Newsletter, Women Educators and Language Learners, No. 12, p. 5 – 9, Early Summer 2002.

• AIDS: A Topic that Spans the Curriculum

  ACADEMIA, Journal of the Nanzan Academic Society, Literature and Language, Nanzan University, No. 72, p. 53-67, June 2002.

• Adjustments in Teacher Language with Different Level Students

  Explorations in Teacher Education (JALT publication), 10:1, p. 15-18, Spring 2002. (Available upon request.)

• The Taboo Topic and Teacher Reluctance

  (Unpublished graduate thesis, Anaheim University, November 2000)

• The Rhetoric of HIV/AIDS in Japanese Universities: A Non-Topic?

  The Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Language and Literature, Aichi Prefectural University, No. 30, p.101-115, March 1998, with William Phillips. (Available upon request.)