Hobbs, James
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Hobbs, James
School of Medicine/ProfessorBasic Information
Specialty
Medical English education, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Biography
Research experience
2007.04 - 2009.03
Iwate Medical University Department of Foreign Languages, Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Lecturer
2002.04 - 2009.03
Iwate Medical University Department of English, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lecturer
2015.10 - 2024.03
Iwate Medical University Department of Foreign Languages, Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor
Research
Reseach overview
My research focuses on Medical English education, with a particular focus on the application of CLIL and task-based methodologies in collaborative teaching involving clinicians and language teachers. I am also engaged in analysis of English questions in the Japanese National Medical Licensing Exam.
Research Interests
- Teaching materials and methodology
- Text and discourse analysis
- Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
- Medical English Education
- Task-based learning
Research areas
Foreign language education
Linguistics