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are happy to announce the launching of </span>the <b>Canadian Consortium on Second Language Writing</b> (</span><span class="x_r-18u37iz"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCSLW?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr" class="x_css-18t94o4 x_css-16my406 x_r-1loqt21 x_r-qvutc0 x_css-4rbku5 x_r-bcqeeo x_css-901oao x_r-poiln3 x_r-1n1174f" style="color: rgb(27, 149, 224); font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px solid black; display: inline; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit; min-width: 0px;">#CCSLW</a></span><span class="x_css-16my406 x_r-qvutc0 x_r-poiln3 x_css-901oao x_r-bcqeeo" style="border: 0px solid black; color: inherit; display: inline; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit; min-width: 0px;">)
-- a series of conversations about L2 writing in Canada and beyond -- this month. We will start with a series of four talks on Zoom. Our first talk will be with Tomoyo Okuda, presenting on "The writing centre and international students in a Japanese university”.
It will take place Friday, Feb, 26 at 10 am PST. Registration is available here:
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https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-writing-center-and-international-students-in-a-japanese-university-tickets-140451224393</a>. A</span><span class="" style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; white-space: inherit;"> Zoom link will be shared with those who register.</span></span></div>
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writing centre and international students in a Japanese university” with Dr Tomoyo Okuda</span></b></font></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">The writing center and international students in a Japanese university: a language management perspective</span></div>
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One of the institutional challenges of taking in large numbers of international graduate students is supporting their academic literacy skills. To accommodate a large population of international students, Japanese universities offer various services to support
their academic studies and life-related issues, such as hiring international student advisors, offering Japanese language courses, and implementing peer-support programs. As a type of academic support for writing for international students, writing centers
have caught the attention of universities in the last decade. To examine the institutional role of the writing center at a Japanese university, this study employs a language management lens to compare the beliefs and interests among administrators, tutors,
and international students in improving international students’ Japanese writing. Interviews with the three groups of participants displayed incongruences between the administrators’ interests aligned with institutional goals, the educational philosophy of
the writing center, and international students’ language learning needs. The findings point to the tutors’ crucial role as language specialists who inform organized language management, and the necessity for collaboration between academic support units and
faculty members in providing sufficient academic socialization environments for international students.</div>
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<span class="" style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Presenter’s Bio:</span>Tomoyo Okuda graduated with a Ph.D. in TESL from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has done research on second language writing, writing centers, internationalization
of higher education, and language policy. Her articles appear in such journals as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Current Issues in Language Planning.</div>
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