Got a passion in life? What is it? Hear one ESL teacher's mission.
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Sure. I originally come from the United States.
Pacific Northwest. But I've been in Japan for
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quite a while teaching English at Japanese
universities. And when I first got over here,
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one of my bosses, he was saying, "Yeah, I taught
English before." And he said, "It was really
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boring." And I was like, Wow, um, I don't want my
English classes to be like that. And so I kind of
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made it sort of my educational... my
teaching mission to see if I can't make,
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you know, English classes, English learning
interesting. Um, I even like to use the word
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"compelling." That's Stephen Kashen's famous
idea: the Compelling Input Hypothesis, where
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we kind of solve the motivational problem by just
giving students what's really interesting. So...
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