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Showing posts with label Roundup. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Roundup: What's in a name? • Free access to TESL Canada Journal • Willis at ERWC • Todai offers courses in English
Japan Probe has an interesting piece on Japanese name order and whether when dealing in English names should be presented "as the romans do" or not. The New Horizons high school textbook now tells students to introduce their name in Japanese order when speaking in English. TESL Canada has decided to allow free access to its scholarly journal as of the latest issue -- which includes articles on pronunciation, pre-reading strategies and the effects of social media on language teaching.
Russell Willis will be discussing issues in the design of extensive reading materials for iPhone and iPad at the Extensive Reading World Congress in Kyoto (September 3~6). The ELT News editor, in his day job as president of software development and publishing company iEnglish.com, will talk about his experience designing the soon-to-be released Oxford Bookworms apps.
Tokyo University will launch its first undergraduate degree programs taught entirely in English in October 2012, offering two degree courses -- Japan studies and environmental sciences -- at its College of Arts and Sciences. Todai president Junichi Hamada wants to make the university an international place of learning where talented students from across the world come to study.
« Gaba to be sold to Nichii Gakkan for $127 million | Main | British Council renews weekly articles on Britain, adding notes in Japanese and glossary »Thursday, August 11, 2011
Roundup: Cengage acquires and partners • Benesse chairman • CUP opens digital platform
Cengage has acquired National Geographic's School Publishing Unit. The acquisition gives Cengage the National Geographic Science series, National Geographic Explorer! Magazines, and Hampton Brown’s literacy and language programs. This follows the success of Cengage's tie-up with NatGeo on its ELT courses and readers. The company (formerly Thomson Learning) has also partnered with Blackboard Inc. also to integrate Cengage Learning’s digital content and solutions with the Blackboard Learn™ platform. It was revealed that the billionaire chairman of Benesse, Soichiro Fukutake, has a soft spot for New Zealand. The chairman of the company that owns Berlitz and is the largest education company in Japan regularly commutes between downtown Auckland and the company's corporate headquarters in Okayama, Japan.
Cambridge University Press has launched a digital content platform for libraries which it says will become "one of the largest and most significant repositories of digital academic material in the world.” From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide institutions with e-books and "related database products” from publishers across the world. It is based on Cambridge Books Online, which offers access to front and backlist PDF titles.
Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: “A key concept of University Publishing Online is to preserve the individual identity of each of its publishing partners, as every academic press makes a unique contribution to the world of scholarship through its own particular process of selecting, editing and presenting material. By respecting these differences, while offering the contributions of all on a single platform with a highly sophisticated common search engine, University Publishing Online will set new standards for the integration of key academic content with a user-friendly interface and customer-oriented purchasing models of unrivalled flexibility.”
« Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholarships launched in partnership with British Council in Japan | Main | Teachers, clubs and study abroad needed for English improvement says MOE panel »
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