Areas of Expertise

Professor Rosenkjar is an authority on the following subjects: second-language reading pedagogy; second language curriculum, syllabus, and materials design; language teaching methods; content-based language instruction; stylistic analysis of literary texts; pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and descriptive linguistics; history of English; linguistic analysis of culture; and education of teachers of English as a foreign language.

Teaching Interests

Professor Rosenkjar has been at TUJ since 1988. He proposed and designed several programs of English-language courses linked to undergraduate core courses, including the Intellectual Heritage Labs and what later became known as the START program. Most recently, he has proposed and designed the Bridge program, a transitional semester to introduce second-language students to undergraduate work. He teaches pre-undergraduate courses in the Academic English Program; undergraduate courses in linguistics, literature, intellectual heritage, and American studies; and graduate courses in TESOL methods.

Research

Professor Rosenkjar's research interests include classroom-based research; action research; needs analysis for curriculum development; second language reading processes and strategies; analysis of written genres, both literary and non-literary; and case studies of second-language curriculum and course design.

Representative Publications

• November 1999. Temple University Japan studies, working papers in teaching literature (editor). Tokyo: Temple University, Japan Campus.
• Brown, J. D., Robson, Gordon, and Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2001). Personality, motivation, anxiety, strategies and language proficiency of Japanese students, Published in Motivation and language acquisition, 361-98, Zoltan Dörnyei and Richard Schmidt (eds.). Honolulu, HI: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii
• Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2002). Adjunct courses in the great books: The key that unlocked Locke for Japanese EFL undergraduates and opened the door to academia for EFL. Published in Case studies in TESOL practice: Content-based instruction in higher education settings. 13-27, JoAnn Crandall & Dorit Kaufman (eds.). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
• Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2006). Learning and teaching how a poem means: Literary stylistics for EFL undergraduates and teachers-in-training in Japan. Published in Case studies in TESOL practice: Literature in language teaching and learning, Amos Paran (ed.). Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2006). American English as cultural expression: Designing a new course in linguistic analysis of culture for EFL undergraduates in Japan. Published in TESOL Curriculum Development Series, Vol. 5, Designing a new course for adults, Lia Kamhi-Stein & Ann Snow (eds.). Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2006). "I want to study TOEFL!": Finding the balance between language learning and test focus in curriculum revision for Japanese EAP students. Published in Language Teacher Research in Asia, Thomas Farrell (ed.). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
• Rosenkjar, Patrick. (2007). Review of In focus: Strategies for academic writers by Myra Shulman, University of Michigan Press (2005). Journal of English for Academic Purposes 6(2), (pp. 186-188), April, 2007. London: Elsevier Ltd.
• "Adapting a Japanese high school textbook to teach reading micro-skills communicatively." In press, accepted for publication in the volume entitled Effective use of textbooks in TESOL's Classroom practice series edited by Lilia Savova. Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
• "A task-based lesson on a simple poem." In press, accepted for publication in the volume entitled Task-based learning in TESOL's Classroom practice series edited by Ali Shehadeh and Christine Coombe. Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Education

Ed.D. in English education, with a concentration in second-language acquisition, Temple University, 1995
M.A. in English, with a concentration in teaching English as a foreign language, San Francisco State University, 1987
B.Sc. in Language studies/German, Georgetown University, 1973

Professional Associations

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

E-mail

rosenkjar@tuj.ac.jp

Office Hours

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