WALTER JOHN HAVARD DAVIES
Last Updated :2021/01/05
- Affiliations, Positions
- Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Associate Professor
- E-mail
- wdavies
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Basic Information
Educational Backgrounds
- BA, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, University of Oxford, U.K., 1986/09, 1989/07
Academic Degrees
- Doctor of Education, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, University of Exeter
- MA,Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of London
Affiliated Academic Societies
- Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 2016/05
- Member of the Japan Society for Medical English Education, 2015/07
- Member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIA
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Advanced English for Communication
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, English Passage Expression Skill Up CII
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, English Passage Expression Skill Up CI
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Matching theory to context: Building a teacher training course for secondary school teachers of English in Japan., Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 20200301
- Effects of different types of out-of-class learning on TOEIC score gains., TOEIC Research Report No.5, 20100301
- ★, Analysing medical English development at a university using a communicative competence model., Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 19, 93-108, 2016
- ★, Applying internal medicine corpus analysis findings to the development of pedagogical materials, Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 19, 109-127, 2016
- ★, The reciprocal effects of teaching evening classes at a non-university hospital and developing a university medical English course, The Journal of Medical English Education, 14(3), 122-126, 2015
- ★, Creating a corpus-informed EMP course for medical undergraduates, IATEFL Professional and Academic English Journal, 45, 16-21, 2015
- Medical word list development through corpus and course construction. Fraser, S., Davies, W., & Tatsukawa, K. (2015). Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 18, 179-193., 2015
- ★, A corpus analysis of an anatomy textbook: Preliminary findings and implications for Medical English Materials Development a Specialized Corpus. Fraser, S., Davies, W., & Tatsukawa, K. (2014). Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 17, 119-140.
- A background study for the development of medical English corpora, word lists and university course materials in Japan. Davies, W., Fraser, S., & Tatsukawa, K. (2014). Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 17, 105-117.
Publications such as books
- 2014/02, Global Issues Towards Peace, 2014, 02, Textbook, Compilation, 9784523177418, 112
- 2016/15/01, English for World Travel, travel conversations, Report, Joint work, Koji Uenishi, Walter Davies, Simon Fraser, 978-4-269-66038-0
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- Consolidating medical English corpora, course materials and word lists through field knowledge, Davies, W., Fraser, S. & Tatsukawa, K., BAAL Annual Conference, 2015, Without Invitation, Japanese
- Creating a medical word list for Japanese undergraduates., Fraser S., Davies, W., & Tatsukawa, K., BAAL Annual Conference, 2015, Without Invitation, Japanese
- Developing a corpus-informed ESP course for medical undergraduates, Fraser, S. & Davies W., CAES International Conference, Hong Kong, 2015, Without Invitation, Japanese
- Adapting a communicative competence model for a university ESP course, Davies, W & Fraser, S., CAES International Conference, Hong Kong, 2015, Without Invitation, Japanese
- The development of medical English corpora, word lists, and university course materials, Fraser, S. & Davies W., FLaRE Annual Symposium, Hiroshima University, 2015, Without Invitation, Japanese