Gregory HadleyNiigata University · Department of Western Languages and Cultures
Gregory Hadley
PhD Applied Linguistics (Sociology of ELT)
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Introduction
I am an educator living in the 'third space' of educational organizations undergoing change as a result of today's global audit culture. I seek to transcend artificial barriers between professionals, eschew rivalries, and connect with others to create dynamic interdisciplinary communities. My objectives are to help others without fostering codependency, to engage in critically aware research practice, and learn how to better listen and understand those around me.
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September 2014 - present
April 1994 - July 1997
Keiwa College
Position
- English Language Teacher
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Publications (58)
The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions, as they struggle to negotiate the challenges arising from a new focus on recruiting international students and hunting for other re...
This paper studies the rationale for allowing Data-driven learning (DDL) more prominence in the EFL classroom. After covering some pertinent issues and developments in the field of pedagogic grammar (PG), the case for DDL will be discussed. The last part of this paper features uses of data-driven learning with Japanese university students, with spe...
Language Incompetence: Learning to Communicate Through Cancer, Disability, and Anomalous Embodiment By S. Canagarajah (2022) London and New York: Routledge, xv + 220 pp.
When used in an informed and careful manner, the repertory grid technique offers mixed methods researchers a way to quickly gain a deeper understanding of their participants’ concerns, issues, and worldviews. This paper critically assesses the potential contributions of the repertory grid technique when used in mixed methods research. After providi...
Corpus use by EAP students has reportedly increased over the last decade, with considerable optimism about the future of this approach (Chen & Flowerdew, 2018a). However, much research employs data from short classroom courses; little is known about how student corpus use has varied over a span of multiple years. This paper uses long-term trend dat...
A One-Day Workshop for Graduate Students and Supervisors who want to learn how to carry out grounded theory methodolgy and present their work to others.
This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of second language learning. The focus throughout the book is primarily on language learning, but each chapter also discusses the implications for teaching and assessment, thus informing both understanding and practice. The book contains nine sections, which aim to organise and reflect d...
This volume demystifies the procedures and practical uses of grounded theory, a well-established research methodology used around the world today by social scientists, teachers, and qualitative researchers. Intended for graduate students, supervisors, and researchers, it provides readers with the tools for understanding, justifying, and disseminati...
This paper investigates using data-driven learning (DDL) as a means of stimulating greater lexicogrammatical knowledge and reading speed among lower proficiency learners in an extensive reading program. For 16 weekly 90-minute sessions, an experimental group (12 students) used DDL materials created from a corpus developed from the Oxford Bookworms...
Because BLEAPs responsible for Tertiary EAP programs in neoliberal universities are continually placed in an environment of forced austerity, they must struggle to find all manner of resources for their unit and for their university patrons. This social process is described as Hunting & Gathering. The main properties supporting the process of Hunti...
Molding & Shaping in this chapter is synonymous with the HEI managerial term of ‘enhancement’. Although enhancement suggests slight adjustment, as administrative informants explained the term, enhancement is less about doing things better, and more about doing better things. Molding & Shaping is derived from the economic clout gained through Huntin...
In order to contextualize the social processes studied in later chapters, some of the larger dynamics are presented, as these are driving the changes being witnessed in EAP at many universities around the world. Beginning first with a broad historical and theoretical discussion that posits Vocationalism within the deconstruction of the Cold War Uni...
Following a brief narrative of the author’s first encounter with societal changes which have affected the nature of EAP and Higher Education around the world, Three conceptual threads, those of the Neoliberalization of Higher Education, a more inclusive definition of EAP, and a group of workers in HE labeled as Blended EAP Professionals, are explai...
The vital lynchpin holding together multiple concerns and agendas that often pull in different directions, and tasked with maintaining EAP Units as SPUs, Blended EAP Professionals (BLEAPs) are an understudied aspect of modern developments in English for Academic Purposes. This chapter surveys a number of key theoretical aspects related to BLEAPs. D...
This chapter presents the core category and core processes for EAP in neoliberal universities. The core category of this grounded theory is Professional Disarticulation, a condition in which people become increasingly cut off from their vocational identities, usually as a result of major changes in the organizational culture. Professional Disarticu...
Because external assessment organizations require empirical evidence of educational quality to justify funding decisions, BLEAPs devote considerable time to Weighing & Measuring. Simply put, Weighing & Measuring relates to the external and internal strategies used to determine the quality of educational plans, programs and people. What sets this co...
Global textbooks (GTs) - full-featured English language teaching materials containing a range of workbooks, videos, CD-ROMs, and online materials - have become a major feature of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)pedagogy in the 21st century. However, they are much maligned by some scholars as tools of cultural imperialism that...
Momentous events of the late 20 th and early 21 st century have led to the rapid and sometimes disturbing growth of American influence around the world. This informal empire both explicitly rewards and implicitly threatens those living in nations of the expanding circle, depending upon their mastery of the English language and their conformity to A...
Betrayal in High Places, a book written in 1996 by the late James MacKay, has created debate among World War II historians and former prisoners of war (POWs) because it claims to reveal suppressed Allied reports of Japanese war atrocities, such as the massacre of 387 American, Australian, British, and Dutch POWs in a gold mine at Aikawa on Sado Isl...
Three approaches to the teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are identified, the Critical approach, the Pragmatic approach, and the Critical Pragmatic approach. Critical EAP is appealing pedagogically because of its restive questioning of discourse norms, although it can seem reactionary at times. By focusing on the acquisition of the sa...
Globalisation, regionalisation, calls for various approaches to the teaching of English as an International Language (EIL) , a s well as pragmatic and critical pedagog ic considerations have stimulated d ebate in Japan about the focus of its English language curricula. This interdisciplinary case study weaves together the threads of different dynam...
This paper investigates whether Data-Driven Learning (DDL), a form of language learning using corpora and concordance software, can be used effectively with Japanese false beginners. Despite the effort put into helping learners to become accustomed to this form of language learning, it was found that DDL was able to foster modest improvements in th...
Since the Japanese Ministry of Education took its historic decision to do away with tertiary-level general education requirements, new and in- novative ELT curricula have begun to surface in colleges and universities across Japan. This paper examines some of these new curricula, and considers a number of issues which may need to be addressed if the...
As the linguistic attention of the ELT academic community continues to move away from the concerns of second language syllabi designs found in CLT or Task-based learning, there are questions among many as to what form the current paradigm shift will take as we approach the next century This paper reviews several of the issues currently surrounding...
Although never validated by either quantitative or qualitative research, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis continues to be a dominant position from which to consider the relationship between language and culture. This paper challenges the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, and attempts to show that lexis and culture are not as inextricably bound to each other as is...
This paper highlights a number of traditional cultural aspects in Japanese educational and social thought which have contributed to the unique nature of Japanese ELT. The paper begins by considering the historical development of Chinese Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, with special attention given to its influence on Japanese pedagogic theory and...
Abstract In light of the ongoing developments with the Advanced Levels of the Communicative English Program (CEP), this paper considers some of the background,literature that discusses change and innovation in educational institutions. It isargued that change agents should learn as much,as possible about the organizational culture of the school. Th...
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Projects (3)
The scientific background of this project relates to Data-Driven Learning (DDL), a corpus-based method of English language study. Research has shown that while DDL is effective among advanced and intermediate learners of English, it has been too difficult for beginners. Together with researchers at Oxford University, we will create an online corpus of comprehensible English materials that will make DDL truly accessible to beginners. We will test the efficacy of this approach, and use the findings to make DDL relevant to the needs of beginners in both Japan and around the world.
