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Tom Aaron's Articles in Education

  • Four more mistakes to avoid in teaching English communication in Japan
    In this article, I would like to present four more mistakes for teachers teaching English communication in Japan to avoid. Some are mistakes that I have made and some are mistakes that I have seen in teaching English communication in Japan. Mistakes are inevitable for both students and teachers; mistakes are the diving platforms for teachers to find success.
  • Business and Language Education in Japan: Another Step in the Nova Saga
    In late August of this year, the Osaka District Court handed President Nozomu Sahashi of Nova a prison sentence of three and a half years for participating in skimming off employee funds. The crime was committed in 2007, a little before October, when the giant foreign language school went bankrupt. Nova was Japan's biggest foreign language school chain and employed more foreign nationals than any other company in Japan.
  • Teaching The Handshake to ESL Students
    American culture, and culture from around the world, fascinates English students in Japan. Many English students around the world share this fascination. In this article, we would like to share two pieces of culture that we teach about in Japan: handshaking and the changing American family. If you teach English in Japan or anywhere else around the world, these two items may be of interest to your students too.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: Profit and PR
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the United States is self-regulating corporate behavior. In theory, the corporation has an ethical responsibility to contribute to the health of the community and avoid harming the community. This article, however, is not about theory, but about practice. Unfortunately many corporations with CSR programs do harm, significant harm.

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