FACULTY

教員紹介

[准教授]C. Smyth

学生へのメッセージ

I am looking forward to meeting you and helping you improve your English ability. Regardless of your English level, if you come to class every week and try your best to work together and communicate with your classmates, you will get a meaningful benefit from your English classes.

C. Smyth

担当科目シラバス

英語IVAB

教育方針および目標

  • The goal of this course is to build upon what you have learned in both high school and university freshman English classes. A key component of achieving this is to help students feel more comfortable and confident using English.

略歴

  • I grew up in a very small town in Ireland, along the border with Northern Ireland, called Clones. The population of my hometown at that time was about 2,500 people - fewer people than on the NUBS campus. I studied Computer Science at Dundalk Institute of Technology for my undergraduate degree, and later studied Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham for my master’s degree. In 2003, I moved to Seoul, where I taught English before moving to Japan in September 2004 to teach English in the Career English program at NUBS. I lived in Fujisawa and Yokohama for about twelve years, before moving to Tokyo where I have now been living for over two years.

研究テーマ

  • My main area of interest is Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. In particular, I am interested in studying xenophobia in Premier League (football) match reports in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers in England. To aid this research,I have compiled a corpus of match reports which now stands in excess of six million words and counting.

所属学会

  • JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers)
  • JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers)

研究業績

連絡先

If you would like to contact me, you can reach me by email at:
E-mail: smyth.colmATnihon-u.ac.jp (メール送信時にATを@に変更してください)
You can also visit me at my office. However, please email beforehand to make an appointment.
Office: ４号館５階、英語研究室４

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