Month: July 2012

• The Culture of Plagarism

  Undoubtedly, there is a plague of plagarism. In our day and age of internet and searchable data it is almost impossible to plagarize and not get caught. The short of it is don’t plagarize if you are an academic of any worth.

  Warren Tang

  26 July 2012

• Zen and (the Art of) English Language Teaching

  I will be giving a talk at the Hiroshima JET Orientation on 15 August 2012 entitled Zen and (the Art of) English Language Teaching. It will be about what we can learn from Zen and apply it to teaching English on the JET Programme, in which I was had been a participant. Before I was…

  Warren Tang

  14 July 2012

• Blog revamp

  I have changed the title of the blog to my name – Warren M Tang – and upgraded the blog design to reflect the new direction this blog is heading. While the blog originally was about corpus linguistics only, I have personally moved on to other areas, and so a more generic title is necessary.…

  Warren Tang

  14 July 2012

• Download AntConc

  A copy of AntConc (Laurence Anthony’s excellent corpus linguistic program) can be obtained from: http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html. [Update] And here is my short tutorial on how to use it.

  Warren Tang

  13 July 2012

• Introduction of elite language education at Tokyo University

  It’s about time such a program was introduced anywhere in Japan. Tokyo University will start streaming some students into an elite language program to groom future global leaders (13 July 2012, Daily Yomiuri). Although many unversities in Japan have something similar running nothing with such vision and aim is available. Tertiary institutions have to take…

  Warren Tang

  13 July 2012