The Uni-Files - Authors Profile

A candid look at EFL life and lessons from a university teacher's perspective.

Mike Guest is Associate Professor of English in the School of Medicine at the University of Miyazaki. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he has been living, working, and researching in Japan (not to mention lounging in the professors-only jacuzzi and taking lengthy, fully-funded research trips to 5-star beach resorts in Bora-Bora) for almost twenty years.

• Language Wars: This is Japan! Speak Japanese!
• On Demo Lessons, English Contests, Heroism, Coddling, and Mental Illness
• How to Read... a Bible (?!)

• Q&A time: Everything you want to know about Japanese medical students and becoming a doctor
    - Mike Guest
    - Chaz-Rae
    - isabelle
    - Mike Guest
    - Al
    - Mike Guest
    - Anna
    - Mike Guest
  
• Language Wars: This is Japan! Speak Japanese!
    - Colin Graham
    - Tristan Scholze
    - Mike Guest
  
• On Demo Lessons, English Contests, Heroism, Coddling, and Mental Illness
    - Niko
    - Mike Guest
    - Mark Howarth
    - Mike Guest
    - Mark Howarth
    - Hans Albanese
    - Mike Guest
    - Hans Albanese
  
• Has Charisma Man jumped the shark?
    - Diane Tincher
    - Rose O'Rourke
    - Mike Guest
    - David
    - Roslyn Appleby
    - Mike Guest
    - Lachlan Jackson
    - Mike Guest
  
• It's self-improvement time (with unexpected input from Malcolm Gladwell)
    - Tristan Scholze
    - Jason Lowes
    - Mike Guest
  
• More on conferences and presentations
    - Fellow teacher
    - Mike Guest
    - Matt Coomber
  
• Workshy, layabout teachers should pay back salaries
    - Frodis
    - Erika Kono
    - Craig Tidwell
    - Martin Fitch
    - Mike Guest
    - Ralph Bosman
    - Mike Guest
  
• Monitoring the classroom- perceptions vs. reality
    - stephen
    - Mark Howarth
    - Mike Guest
    - Ricky
    - Chris Quinn
  
• Putting together a half-decent achievement test
    - Bernie Panzo
    - Chris Quinn
  
• Q. When is a Native Speaker not good enough to be a Native Speaker? A. On the TOEIC test
    - Jon Hodge
    - treblekickeresq
    - Chris Quinn
  

• Amusement/Fiction (6)
• Conferences (6)
• Culture (5)
• Grading (10)
• In the real world (7)
• Management (16)
• Testing (12)
• University (51)
• Activities (19)
• Courses (17)
• ELT university society (12)
• Grammar and vocabulary (18)
• daily workload (12)
• methodology (33)
• publications and research (8)
• rants (25)
• research (16)
• the political side (23)
• the students (36)
• what you didn't know... (14)
• working conditions (13)
• contracts (5)
• foreigners in Japan (18)
• internationalization (8)
• theory (15)