James Venema

Negotiation of meaning: encouraging students to speak up

2020-03-25

James Venema encourages his Japanese students to respond promptly to questions, giving them the language and impetus to do so – and not accepting silence as a valid response.

Academic writing through debate

2014-06-27

The benefits of debate as an academic writing task including some classroom activities that should prove useful in classes focused on debate, by James Venema.