Language-Exchange Meetings: The Second Year of developing ICU Language Tables

This report is about the second year of the ongoing voluntary project on languageexchange meetings, ICU Language Tables. It was established in autumn 2016, andfrom autumn 2017 to spring 2018, volunteer student coordinators, the author ofthis report as an instructor of English for Liberal Arts (ELA), administrators,professors, and instructors collaborated on this endeavor. Based on the author’sreflection and students’ responses, this report will first present an overview of thesecond year, extra-curricular speaking programs in universities in Japan, andlanguage-exchange meetings. Then, five issues from the author’s perspective andfive themes from participants’ perspectives revealed in surveys and interviewswill be discussed. Though the project addressed issues raised in the preliminarystudy, to further create a desirable environment, dealing with ongoing and newissues, attention to participants’ needs, and support for diverse students arecrucial

Exploring Language Tables: From a Voluntary Coordinator’s Viewpoint

In 2016, ICU Language Tables were initiated to provide an environment wherestudents from different backgrounds could meet and practice speaking variouslanguages in a casual environment. This endeavor was carried out by voluntarycoordinators including two student coordinators from ICU Hub, a club oncampus, and the author as an instructor of English for Liberal Arts (ELA). This isa report of this endeavor from autumn 2016 to spring 2017 based on onecoordinator’s reflection and students’ responses. The report will first present anoverview of the existing problem, ICU Hub, Language Tables, similar programsin Asia, and similarities with Tandem Learning. Then, eight issues derived fromthe author’s observations and notes will be discussed. Additionally, students’comments from a small-scale survey will be presented. The report will concludewith several future recommendations for improving designing an environment forstudents from various backgrounds to meet and practice target languages

合同な四角形による球面のタイリングの例

We give examples of monohedral tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by quadrangles, three of whose edges have the same length. We show that to classify monohedral tilings by quadrangles with this property, we must consider a condition between four angles, in addition to combinatorial consideration, which we developed in [8] for the case of triangles

Tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by congruent right triangles

We classify all spherical tilings consisting of congruent right triangles. There exist five sporadic types and four series of such tilings. We also exhibit the figures of these tilings

The Number of English-medium Courses at ICU from 2000 to 2007

This investigation follows that of Riney (2000), which reported the number andpercentage of courses listed as “E” (English medium of instruction) fromAcademic Year 1997 to 2000, based on the annually published ICU Courseofferings and guide to academic regulations. The current paper reports the sametype of data but from a more recent time period, 2001 through 2007, andinvolving an additional longitudinal perspective of any changes in “E” listings atICU over a longer period of time. For the time period 2001 to 2007, it was foundthat of 4802 courses listed in General Education and the six ICU major academicdivisions, the language of instruction of 65.7% of the courses was listed as “J”(Japanese), 17.0% as “E” and the remainder involved some combination of “E”and “J,” with “J” almost always the primary language. This paper (a) provides thedetails of these listings year by year for General Education and each of the sixmajor academic divisions at ICU; (b) allows for a comparison of the results of thisinvestigation with that of Riney (2000); and (c) points out why a mere reportingof such listings may not be an adequate indication of overall practice in terms oflanguage of instruction at ICU

コトナル タシャ トノ カカワリカタ ニ カンレン スル ショヨウイン ノ ケンキュウ : トクシマ ダイガク ソウゴウ カガクブ 1ネンセイ オ タイショウ ニ シタ アンケート チョウサ カラ

This study aimed to determine factors related to the level of acceptance for people who are regarded as being different in terms of country of origin, age and sexual norms. Questionnaires were distributed to first year undergraduate students at The University of Tokushima in Japan and promax rotation factor analysis yielded five factors: 1) orientation toward foreign cultures, 2) openness toward multiculturalism, 3) openness toward discussing sex, 4) openness toward having friendship with members of the opposite sex and 5) orientation toward educational achievement. Results showed that gender and course of study were the most important variables related to openness toward foreign cultures and openness toward multiculturalism, with female students and liberal arts students having a relatively high level of acceptance for people regarded as being different. Results suggest that university curricula should focus more on multiculturalism training for male students and students majoring in mathematics and science

Classification of tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by congruent triangles

We give a new classification of tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by congruent triangles accompanied with a complete proof. This accomplishes the old classification by Davies, who only gave an outline of the proof, regrettably with some redundant tilings. We clarify Davies ’ obscure points, give a complete list, and show that there exist ten sporadic and also ten series of such tilings, including some unfamiliar twisted ones. We also give their figures, development maps in a way easy to understand their mutual relations. In Appendix, we give curious examples of tilings on non-compact spaces of constant positive curvature with boundary possessing a special 5-valent vertex that never appear in the tiling of the usual sphere