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How do students find English information about Asia?
Yumi Hasegawa
Rikkyo University, Japan
 

English textbooks and lessons in Japan had (and perhaps still do) a tendency to deal with topics about English speaking countries, such as The United States or The United Kingdom. Since English is an international language nowadays, we can use it when we communicate with not only the people from English speaking countries but also the people from any country who can speak English. 

There are two main purposes for this report. One is to show the ways university students in Japan find English information about Asian countries and what kinds of information they are interested in, The another purpose is to share some of the information collected by students with you. Perhaps you can take away some information which you may be able to use in your teaching. 



Yumi Hasegawa has an M.A. in TESOL from Columbia University and has been teaching English at Rikkyo University and Sanno College in Tokyo, Japan.   She is interested in teaching about Asian countries through English. She is a member of JALT, Global Issues which is one of the N-SiGs in JALT, and JACES (Japan Association for Current English Studies). She made a report about KOTESOL'98 at JACES in November, 1998.