Baden Offord, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights at Southern Cross University, Australia and ACAS/ACCS14 Co-Chair, speaks with IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane about cultural studies as a discipline, its strengths and effects.

This interview was filmed at The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2014) and The Fourth Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2014 (ACCS2014), a jointly held interdisciplinary academic conference in Osaka, Japan.

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What is essential when learning a new language? Perhaps, it’s motivation, having curiosity and wanting to learn. Or is it being immersed in a culture where that language is dominant? And should your teacher be a native speaker of the language you want to learn or not?

Ken Wilson, ELT author and trainer, challenges many of these assumptions about language learning in this interview with Dr. Joseph Haldane, IAFOR’s Executive Director. He also discusses how technology can be used in the classroom and how to engage your student’s curiosity.

Ken Wilson was a Keynote Speaker at the IAFOR European Conference on Language Learning 2014 (ECLL2014) in Brighton, UK.

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