Personal Background

Name: Miura Takashi (surname first)
Date of Birth: 24 August 1947
Title: Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Facutly of Education, Shizuoka University
Current Workplace: Aichi University (part-time lecturer), Shizuoka University (part-time lecturer)
Education:

• Oct 1994-Jun 1997: The University of Birmingham, Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, Dissertation Title: An Analysis of "aural/oral communication A" English textbooks in Japanese upper secondary school
• Jul 1990-Aug 1993: Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Second Language
• Apr 1966-Mar 1971: Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature

Work Experience:

• April 2013-: Professor Emeritus at Shizuoka University, Part-time lecturer at Aichi Univ. and Shizuoka Univ., Dissertation supervisor at Univ. of Birmingham MA TEF/SL Open Distance Learning Programme
• Apr 2001-Mar 2013: Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University, Japan (Courses in Charge: English Teaching Methodology and other teacher preparation courses to graduate and undergraduate students)
• Apr 1999-Mar 2001: Associate Professor, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
• Oct 1997-Present: Japan Local Tutor, Birmingham MA TEFL/TESL Open Distance Learning Programme
• Apr 1995-Mar 1999: Associate Professor, Nagoya Meitoku Junior College, Tokai-shi, Japan (Courses in Charge: English Teaching Methodolgoy and other courses)
• Apr 1974-Mar 1995: High School English Teacher, Prefectural Senior High School, Aichi-prefecture, Japan (Taught English to senior high school students)
• Apr 1971-Mar 1974: High School English Teacher, Prefectural Senior High School, Aichi-prefecture, Japan (Taught English to senior high school students)

Membership in Professional Organizations

• Chubu Association of English Language Teaching (Chubu Chiku Eigo Kyoiku Gakkai)
• JALT, the Japan Association for Language Teaching
• JACET, the Japan Association of College English Teachers
• The Association of Studying English Language Classrooms (Eigo Jugyo Kenkyu Gakkai)
• The Japan Association of English Language Teaching (Zenkoku Eigo Kyoiku Gakkai)
• Senior High School English Classroom Reform Project (http://homepage3.nifty.com/newmiurapage)

Major Publications

• Human-na Eigo Jugyoga Shitai (Why and How We Can Nourish Students' Human Character through Communicative English Lessons). Co-authored with Y. Nakashima and S. Ikeoka. March 2006. Tokyo :Kenkyusha Publishing Co. (302 pages)
• Dakara Eigowa Kyoiku Nanda (Nurturing Humanity through English Language Education). Co-authored with S. Hiroyama and Y. Nakashima. April 2002. Tokyo: Kenkyusha Publishing Co. (223 pages)
• "A System for Analyzing Conversation Textbooks" JALT Journal, 2000, May, Vol.22, No.1, Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching. (21 pages)
• Eigo Communication Jugyono Jissai (The Pragmatics of Teaching English Communicatively). April 1992. Hiroshima: Daiichi Gakushusha Publishing Co. (256 pages)
• "Generating Students' Discussion in High School English--Submerged Prerequisites" ARELE (Annual Review of English Langauge Education) 1990. Aug. Vol.1, Tokyo: The Japan Association of English Language Teaching. (14 pages)