Angel Figueroa

アンヘル・フィゲロア

Assistant professor

area of expertise: TESOL, Linguistics, CLIL

Main subjects

Oral Fluency I/II/III/IV, Intermediate Writing Skills, Language Acquisition A/B, Oral English for Children, Spanish I/II/III/IV, Spanish Culture and Society A/B

Research Themes and Keywords

TESOL, CLIL, Ethnomusicology (民族音楽学), Español como Lengua Extranjera (スペイン語学)

Final academic background/degree

MA Applied Linguistics, University of New England

Affiliated academic society

Japan Association of Language Teaching; Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association; Society for Ethnomusicology; Confederación Académica Nipona, Española y Latinoamericana

Major achievements

Doe, T., & Figueroa, A. (2015). Planning activities and freewriting. In P. Clements, A. Krause, & H. Brown (Eds.), Focus on the learner. Tokyo: JALT.

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Extracurricular activities

Internet radio DJ (“Encanto Tropical” WorldSalsaRadio.com)

Social contribution activities

Chiba City Volunteers
Music Appreciation Society Facilitator

Office Hours

火曜日・木曜日第2時限

Message

Making mistakes is an important part of improving your skills at anything, especially a language. Students should overcome shyness, try their best, and not be afraid of making mistakes. Communication -- not accuracy -- is, after all, the goal when speaking with people, whether in your first language or not. It's normal to make a few grammar or vocabulary mistakes. As a student learning English, the key is to develop fluency and communication confidence and then learn from your mistakes.