Joseph Vincent Dias Daiichi Kuzugaya Mansion, 2D 4-11-4 Nishi Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 〒161-0031

Visa Status: Permanent Resident (Japan) HP: www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/~dias/ Date of Birth: October 11, 1960 e-mail: Nationality: American Phone/ Fax: (81)- (0)3-3954-7150

EDUCATION: Graduate Studies: Columbia University/ Teachers College * MA in TESOL (awarded in October 1989)

Undergraduate: University of California at Berkeley * B.A. in psychology (awarded in spring 1982) * Volunteered as a teacher’s aide in local schools, a day-care center for abused children, and a facility for emotionally disturbed adolescents to supplement classes on developmental psychology.

Secondary: Bellarmine College Preparatory (graduated in June 1978)

WORK EXPERIENCE: 2003 (April) ~ present * Aoyama Gakuin University: Serving as a full-time Associate Professor in the English Dept. of the Faculty of Literature. Duties include coordinating the Integrated English (IE) Program, conducting orientations and faculty development sessions, and teaching courses in intercultural communication and research skills, along with graduation thesis advising.

1989 (April) ~ 2003 (March) * Kitasato University: Served as a full-time Associate Professor in the English Unit of the Basic Education Center, part of the Center for Liberal Arts & Sciences. Duties included: teaching English and seminars on com- munication in health care settings to students majoring in pharmacology, physical therapy, veterinary medicine, nursing and hygienic science; creating English entrance exams; and setting up and maintaining a computer assisted language learning lab.

1995 (April) ~ 2003 (March) * Aoyama Gakuin University: Teaching (as a part-time lecturer) courses in the Integrated English (IE) Program—including a Core class predominantly for returnees and a seminar dealing with how to critically evaluate and appropriately cite information derived from the Internet. 1

1992 (March) ~ 1994 (June) * Columbia University Teachers College: Co-taught seminars and practica on writing pedagogy as an adjunct lecturer.

1994 (April) ~ 1995 (March) * Tamagawa University: Taught classes in the Department of Anglo- American Literature on English through poetry and pantomime.

1989 (April) ~ 1994 (March) * Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus): Conducted classes as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Literature on methodology of language teaching.

1986 (April) ~ 1989 (March) * Kanda Gaigo Gakuin: Taught reading, writing, debate, acting, speaking and listening, as well as short seminars on a variety of topics to students in vocational flight attendant and business programs.

1984 (April) ~ 1986 (March) * Niigata English Language School: Taught English to groups of young business-bound students. Also instructed doctors, medical researchers and company workers about to be sent on business to Saudi Arabia.

1983 (July) ~ 1982 (June) * Oakland College of Court Reporting: Read legal transcripts to students of court reporting and edited scripts to be used for simulated courtroom dialogues

ASSOCIATIONS: I am an active member of the Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT) and its Bilingualism and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) special interest groups. As a conference committee member for the JALT CALL Conference (in May 2002) I served as the program and publicity co-chair. I was also on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the JALT ‘99 and 2000 Conference Proceedings. In addition, I maintain membership in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), the International Associa- tion of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), and the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS).

2 PRESENTATIONS: “Mindful teaching, mindful learning; Ways to turn off automatic pilot,” lecture, Symposium on foreign language faculty development, Kanda Gaigo Career College, Tokyo, Japan, January 30, 2009.

“Student-created podcasts featuring model NGOs (non-governmental organizations),” paper, EUROCALL 2008, Kodolányi János University, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, September 4, 2008.

“Viewing and creating NGO-related podcasts in an EFL setting,” poster presentation, WorldCALL 2008, Fukuoka International Congress Center (FICC), Fukuoka, Japan, August 6, 2008.

“Integrating Podcasts into an EAP Curriculum,” paper, (with Someya Yasumasa) 49th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Current English Studies, International Christian University, Mitaka City, Tokyo, October 7, 2007.

“From needs analysis to a plan for action: Deriving appropriate tasks from learners’ needs in an intensive English program at a Japanese university,” poster, (with Keita Kikuchi) 2nd International Conference on Task-based Language Teaching, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, September 22, 2007.

“Student and Teacher Collaboration on Podcasts,” paper, (with James Pagel, Charles Browne, and Marc Menish) EUROCALL 2007: Teaching Languages Through Technology, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, September 6, 2007.

“Student- & Teacher-created Podcasts,” demonstration, Aoyama Gakuin University CALL Workshop, Aoyama Gakuin University (Shibuya Campus), July 27, 2007.

“Assessing Learners Needs in a College EAP Program,” paper, (with Keita Kikuchi) 32nd Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT2006), Kokura, Japan, November 3, 2006.

“The Research/ Pedagogy Nexus,” paper, 31st Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT2005), Grandship, Shizuoka City, Japan, October 9, 2005.

“A Web of Controversy: Mucking one’s way to a social consciousness” paper, EuroCALL 2005, Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland ), August 25, 2005. 3

"Online concordance tools for better spoken and written expression," demonstration, 39th Annual Conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas USA, April 1, 2005.

"Ad infinitum: Critically viewing ads and ad busting,” [paper, presented with Marlene Ernst], Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Teachers in Japan, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, September 23, 2004.

"Rethinking Teaching to Accommodate the Seeing-impaired," poster presentation, 38th Annual Conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif., April 2, 2004.

“Classroom Fictions; Teachers and students writing,” workshop (Presented with Gregory Strong), 29th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Grandship, Shizuoka City, Japan, November 24, 2003.

"Introducing MALL -- Mobile-assisted language learning." paper, AILA 2002: 13th World Congress of Applied Linguistics Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, December 20, 2002. http://www.expage.com/handout [accessed on December 25, 2002]

“The future of cell phones and language learning,” paper, JALT 2002: Waves of the Future, 26th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan, November 24, 2002.

"Cell Phones in Education: Not Just a Nuisance." paper, Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association. University of Exeter, England, UK, September 13, 2002.

“Are we ready for cell phones in the classroom,” workshop, 7th Annual JALTCALL Conference, Hiroshima Jogakuin University, Hiroshima, Japan, May 18, 2002.

“Cell phones give new meaning to CALL,” paper, PAC 3 at JALT 2001: A language odyssey, Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kokura, Japan, November 23, 2001.

4 “Is CALL ready to go mobile?” paper, EuroCALL 2001, Nijmegen University (The Netherlands), August 31, 2001.

“What cats and bearded men can teach about critical thinking skills,” paper, EuroCALL 2001, Nijmegen University (The Netherlands), August 30, 2001.

“Getting health professionals to see universals of health care communication by studying fine detail of medical communications conducted in foreign countries,” paper, Conference on Research & Practice in Professional Discourse, City University of Hong Kong, November 16, 2000.

“Skills for separating the web's wheat from its chaff,” demonstration, 26th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan, November 4, 2000.

“Using conversation analysis in medical ESP,” demonstration, 26th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan, November 3, 2000.

“A Web of Deceit: Teaching Students How to Evaluate the 'Trustworthiness' of Information Found on the Web,” presen- tation, The Fourth Conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology, Kobe, Japan, July 29, 2000.

"The shaping of life style 'choice' in medical consultations " paper, Visiting Researcher Lecture Series, Dept. of Social Medicine, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,The Netherlands. April 4, 2000.

“Conversation analysis in ESP courses” lecture, 34th International IATEFL Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, March 30, 2000.

“Initiating Learner Autonomy with CALL” paper, Exeter CALL ’99 -- Eighth Biennial Conference at the University of Exeter, England, Sept. 10, 1999.

“Structuring large classes for promoting learner autonomy” paper (with David Brooks), The Thirty-third Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), New York, NY, March 13, 1999. 5

“Naturally occurring data as medical ESP texts” demonstration, The Thirty-third Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), New York, NY, March 10, 1999.

“Panel Discussion on Family Bilingualism” [Presented with Linda Miyashita & Alexandra Shiga as part of “West Tokyo JALT’s Sym- posium on Bilingualism in the Family and in Education”], Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kitasato University, Sagamihara City, Japan, Feb. 14, 1999.

“Promoting Interaction in Large Classes with CALL,” [Presented with David Brooks as part of the “CALL: Classroom Interactions” colloquium], 24th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Sonic City, Omiya, Japan, November 22, 1998.

“Using Real-life Videotape Data in ESP Materials,” demonstration, 24th Annual Conference of The Japan Association of Language Teaching, Sonic City, Omiya, Japan, November 21, 1998.

“I didn’t have any sleep complaints until you mentioned I have a sleep disorder” lecture, University of Liverpool’s Dept. of Primary Care Lunchtime Seminars, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill Liver- pool, England, January 19, 1998.

“The ambivalent consumer revolution in medicine: ways doctors (and other health care practitioners) accept or reject patients as informed co-participants” lecture, Doctoral Research Seminars in the Dept. of Languages and European Studies/Language Studies Unit, Aston University, Birmingham, England, July 29, 1997.

“Drama-related email/video exchanges” poster session, The Thirty-first Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Orlando, Florida, March 15, 1997.

“Email-cum-Video Exchanges: Curriculum in Flux” demonstration, The 22nd Annual International JALT Conference on Language Teaching/Learning, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2, 1996.

“International Exchanges of Email and Student-made Videos” paper, Malaysia International Confererence on English Language Teaching (MICELT 96), Penang, Malaysia, May 22, 1996. 6

“A Gesture is Worth a Thousand Words: Pantomime and Language Learning” demonstration, The Sixteenth Annual Thai TESOL Convention, The Ambassador City, Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand, January 13, 1996.

“Learning English through Computer Telecommunications” 「英語学習の問題点̶英文パソコン通信入門」lecture, Citizens’ Lecture Series （市民大学北里大学講座）Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Pref., Japan, Sept. 9, 1995. (lecture delivered in Japanese)

“HyperCard Projects for Adult EFL Learners: a process writing approach” demonstration, The Twenty-ninth Annual Conven- tion of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Long Beach, California, March 30, 1995.

“The Information Superhighway--A Guide for ESL Teachers,” workshop, West Tokyo Chapter/ Japan Association of Language Teaching Lecture Series, Tokyo, Japan, February 19, 1995.

“Code-Mixing and Code-Switching at Story Time,” paper, Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference, Matsuyama, Japan, October 8, 1994.

“Pantomime in the Classroom: The Not-so-silent Way,” demonstration, Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference, Matsuyama, Japan, October 9, 1994.

“Process Writing on a Computer-based Word Processor,” paper, Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference, Omiya, Japan, October 11, 1993.

“Language Teacher Education for College Freshmen,” paper, Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference, Omiya, Japan, October 10, 1993.

PUBLICATIONS: ** ACADEMIC & PEDAGOGY-RELATED ** Dias, J.V. (in press). A Web of Controversy: Bringing Critical Thinking Skills Online. In Adult language learners: Context and innovation (G. Strong and A. Smith, Eds.). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

7 Dias, J.V., & Kikuchi, K. (in press). Using Focus Groups and Surveys to Inform the Design and Revision of Listening Tasks. In Listening (N. Ashcraft and A. Tran, Eds.). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

“Faculty and student-created podcasts in an EFL setting.” 青山インフォメーション・サイエンス (Aoyama Information Science), Vol. 35, No 1, February 2008 (in press).

Dias, J. (2007). Networking... netplaying: From a New York minute to a Mixi second. The JALT CALL Journal, 3 (3), 123-124.

“'And now a word from our students...'--Noticing, analyzing, and creating ads in the classroom” [with Marlene Ernst], Canadian Content, 14 (2), Fall 2004, pp. 15-17.

“Classroom Fictions: Teachers and Students Writing” [with G. Strong] (2004), In M. Swanson & K. Hill (Eds.), JALT2003 Proceedings. Tokyo: Japan Association of Language Teaching. pp. 280-288.

“Are we ready for cell phones in the classroom?” (2003), In P. Lewis et. al. (Eds.), Local Decisions, Global Effects. Nagoya: Chubu Nihon Bunkakai. pp. 163-173.

"Cell phones in the classroom: Boon or Bane? Part 2" C@LLING Japan, 10 (3), Summer/Fall 2002, pp. 8-13.

"Cell phones in the classroom: Boon or Bane? Part 1" C@LLING Japan, 10 (2), Spring 2002, pp. 16-22.

"Beyond artificial flowers: The challenge of catching language in full bloom." [with E. McCafferty], On CUE 8 (3), Winter 2000, pp. 10-13.

“Learner Autonomy in Japan: transforming ‘help yourself’ from threat to invitation.” Computer Assisted Language Learning, (The Netherlands), Vol. 13, No. 1, February 2000. pp. 49-64.

"A Web of Deceit: Evaluating the 'trustworthiness' of information on the Web" (2000), In K. Ryan (Ed.), Recipes for Wired Teachers. Nagoya: The Japan Association of Language Teaching Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group. pp. 53-54.

"The IATEFL 2000 Conference Reviewed." [with K. Ford, E. McCafferty & G. Ockey], On CUE 8 (2), Summer 2000, pp. 12-17.

“CALL: Classroom Interactions” [with D. Brooks, W. Bradley, P. Daniels & J. Wada] (1999), In A. Barfield, et al (Eds.), On JALT98 -- Focus on the Classroom: Interpre- tations. Tokyo: Japan Association of Language Teaching. pp. 222-228.

8 “Developing an ESP Course Around Naturally-occurring Videotaped Medical Consultations” The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. V, No. 3, March 1999. Available: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Dias-MedicalVideos/index.html

“The Teacher as Chameleon: Computer-mediated Communication & Role Transformation” (1998), In P. Lewis (Ed.), Teachers, Learners, and Computers: Exploring Relationships in CALL. Nagoya: Chubu Nihon Bunkakai. pp. 17-26.

“The ambivalent consumer revolution in medicine: ways doctors accept or reject patients as informed co-participants”, submitted on March 13, 1998 to the Dept of Languages and European Studies, Language Studies Unit (unpublished doctoral research progress report).

“Pantomime in the classroom.” pp. 74-77 In: Our Share (ed. I.G. Gleadall and J.A. Johnson). Pp i-viii + 100. (1996) Tokyo: JALT MWNSIG.

“A gesture is worth a thousand words: Pantomime and language learning.” Thai TESOL Bulletin, Vol. 9: 1, August 1996, pp. 13-14.

“Entering the Digital Age Sans Computers--Almost” Materials Writers Newsletter. Vol. III, No. 2, September 1995, pp.10-12.

“Code-mixing, metalinguistic awareness and questioning behavior among English/ Japanese bilingual children” Kitasato Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No. 29, March 1995, pp. 57-82.

“Turning practica papers into final projects--Reread, Rethink, Revise (the three R’s).” Columbia Teachers College Newsletter. Vol. 3, No. 6, February 1994.

“A Stylistic Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Futility’”. Kitasato Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No. 28, March 1994, pp. 71-86.

“Criterion for the Construction and Evaluation of Listening Comprehension Texts and Tasks.” Kitasato Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No. 27, March 1993, pp. 64-91.

“Pantomime in the Classroom: The Not-So-Silent Way.” The Language Teacher , Vol. XVI: 12, December 1992, pp. 35-37.

“English Education as a Three-ring Circus” (1991), In J. Fanselow (Ed.), 『英語教育を変えよう̶ ＴＥＳＯＬへの招待』サイマル出版会. pp. 114-131.

“The Anatomy of a Misunderstanding.” Kitasato Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No. 25, March 1991, pp. 69-86.

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** TEXTBOOKS ** Health Care Today 『英語で学ぶ医療と健康』（共著）2001. Asahi Press. (120 pages) -- This EFL/ESP textbook is intended for health science majors and deals with such topics as ethical concerns in medicine, the neglect of pain suffered by AIDS patients, and issues related to organ transplants.

Toward the Future: Survival Science for the New Century 『明日を生きる科学の知恵』（共著） 2000. Nan’un-do Publishing Co., Ltd. (100 pages) --This EFL textbook is made up of science-related readings followed by comprehension, vocabulary, listening and composition exercises. An associated web site can be found at: http://www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/~dias/ttf.html

A Shorter Course in Healthy Living 『５分間これからの健康』（共著）1994. Nan’un-do Publishing Co., Ltd. (42 pages) --This is an English textbook made up of short, science- related readings along with an engaging variety of exercises.

The Future is Now 『われら未来』（共著）1993. Nan’un-do Publishing Co., Ltd. (144 pages)--This is an English textbook designed particularly for students of science.

** CREATIVE WRITING ** "Crashing Awake" (Poem) Dream International Quarterly. No. 30, 2001, p. 87.

"Next Stop, Mesopotamia" (Poem) Dream International Quarterly. No. 30, 2001, p. 85.

“Virtual Wasteland” (Poem) Psychopoetica. No. 46, Autumn 2000, p. 74.

“Polyester fabrications” (Poem) Black Bear Review. No. 30, Spring, Summer 2000, p. 39.

“Are you Ready?” (Poem) Offerings. Vol. VII No. 3, 3rd Quarter 2000, p. 40.

“Reverberations” (Poem) Offerings. Vol. VII No. 3, 3rd Quarter 2000, p. 5.

“Cherry Flats” (Poem) First Time. No. 38. Spring 2000, p. 16.

"having another go" (Poem) The Plaza. No. 37. April - June 2000, p. 3.

"A Taste for the Still" (Poem) Afterthoughts. Vol. xv, Spring 2000, p. 52.

“Walking in an Icy Puddle Near an Abrasives Factory” (Poem) Skald. Issue 10, 1999, p. 13. [Also published in Poetry Monthly. Issue 37, April 1999, p. 9. and in Lateral Moves. Issue 27, 2000, p. 6]

10 “The lunar eclipse I didn’t see” (Poem) Poetry Nottingham International. Vol. 52, No. 3, Autumn 1998, p. 21.

“Virtual Unknowns: An unfinished multimedia tragicomedy”. (Play) Kitasato Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Vol. II, March 1997, pp. 110-122.

“Zen & the Art of Starting a Jyagulingu Club at a Japanese University.” Juggler's World. Vol. 43:4, Winter 1992, pp. 26-35.

** MOST RECENT VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE **

Crisis counselor for an organization serving the foreign community in Japan. From September 2004 - Present.

Assistant to administrative and nursing staff in the admissions ward and fracture clinic at the University of Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital From June 1997 - March 1998. Volunteer coordinator: Christine Smith on +44 121 627 1627

Counselor to callers experiencing emotional distress for SOLACE (Service of Listening and Comfort Every Night), sponsored by the South Warwickshire Mental Health Trust, From July 1997 - March 1998. Volunteer trainer: Nicholas Bond on +44 178 972 1311

CLUB ACTIVITIES: I initiated and convened the Kitasato Juggling Club, an official university club at Kitasato University, for nine years. The organization energetically organized performances for children and promoted the joy of juggling. I'm currently the faculty advisor for the Juggling Circle at Aoyama Gakuin University.

REFERENCES: Dr Peter Robinson (currently professor in applied linguistics at the English Dept./linguistics section of Aoyama Gakuin University), [email protected]

Dr John Fanselow (formerly Professor at Columbia University,Teachers College).

Dr Keith Richards (Senior Lecturer at Warwick University) [UK] at the Centre for Language Education

Julie Dearden (Director, International Programmes & Conferences, Hertford College/ Oxford University), [email protected]

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