Summary: Four students presented in Class 06, and in Class 07, there were 12. I explained the Cycle 1 Presentations again, and some of you re-signed up for your presentation date and time. The next homework for Cycle 2 on language is described below.

Guidelines for your presentation are not included in the assessment document, yet they help support your Cycle 1 Presentation.

1. Your talk should last 8-10 minutes, followed by 3-5 minutes for questions, comments, and answers.

2. It is good to practice your presentation several times, recording yourself on video, so you can notice any communication styles you would like to improve.

3. There are usually 16 to 20 slides.

4. Your reference page is single-spaced with APA formatting. 

5. Please include in-text citations such as parenthetical citations (Miller, 2021, par. 3). You can also do narrative in-text citations like Miller (2021) suggested that…

6. Here are two free websites where you can download free and beautiful images and pictures:

Pixabay

Creative Commons

This homework is due before the third period at the end of lunch on Friday, before Class 06 for the presenters only. Please email me the Google Slides link or send a PowerPoint slideshow attachment.

1. The guidelines for the assessment you also received in class are attached at the bottom of this web page. 🙂 As best you can, design your PowerPoint slides based on the feedback from your paper. Make sure that you have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.

Documents for Cycle 1 Presentations:

Cycle 1 References Download

Presentation on Motivation (not Cycle 1 Identity) A

Presentation on Motivation (not Cycle 1 Identity) B

Homework due on Friday at 1 pm before Class 08. Could you please take two or three pages of notes based on these nine questions about your Language Learning Experiences in your Google Docs at the top of the page? You can use drawings and images as you like. Feel free to make it colorful. You do not need to answer all the questions, but choose 4 or 5 that mean the most to you that you would like to share with the class.

English Past (Language Learning Experience and Ought-to Self):

1. When did you start learning English? Please discuss what you remember about this experience. About how old were you?
2. How did you study English in junior and senior high school? How were your English classes?
3. Pretend I was a student in one of your classes in secondary school. Please take me to the class and describe what I can expect to see.
4. What English studies did you feel that you had to do, but did not want to do?
5. Describe a positive(s) or negative experience(s) you have had learning English in the classroom. What did you learn from the experience?
6. What was the best or worst English class you have ever had? Why?
7. How about studying abroad? If so, how was it?  
8. Have you used English while abroad? In Japan? If so, how was that? Please explain.
9. What opportunities have you had to use English outside the classroom?

Summary: Students discussed their research in pairs. Then, I explained the Cycle 1 Presentations, and you signed up for your presentation date and time.

Guidelines for your presentation are not included in the assessment document, yet they help support your Cycle 1 Presentation.

1. Your talk should last 8-10 minutes, followed by 3-5 minutes for questions, comments, and answers.

2. It is good to practice your presentation several times, recording yourself on video, so you can notice any communication styles you would like to improve.

3. There are usually 16 to 20 slides.

4. Your reference page is single-spaced with APA formatting. 

5. Please include in-text citations such as parenthetical citations (Miller, 2021, par. 3). You can also do narrative in-text citations like Miller (2021) suggested that…

6. Here are two free websites where you can download free and beautiful images and pictures:

Pixabay

Creative Commons

This homework is due before the third period at the end of lunch on Friday, before Class 06 for the presenters only. Please email me the Google Slides link or send a PowerPoint slideshow attachment.

1. The guidelines for the assessment you also received in class are attached at the bottom of this web page. 🙂 As best you can, design your PowerPoint slides based on the feedback from your paper. Make sure that you have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.

Documents for Cycle 1 Presentations:

Presentation on Motivation (not Cycle 1 Identity) A

Presentation on Motivation (not Cycle 1 Identity) B

Summary: We ensured that your homework and uploads were complete and accurate, and you got into pairs with new playing cards with cat quotations that might be also interesting for you to discuss.

Class 04 Homework on Your Identity and Culture: Please take 3-4 pages of notes on two readings or viewings from the offerings below in keywords and use summarizations as much as possible. Whenever you can, especially using “direct quotations,” note the page and paragraph number to help you know where you got the information. These actions will also help you avoid plagiarism.

Please edit the information in each reading or viewing according to the example below as accurately as possible. I can help edit. Here is the list of all the readings and viewings for Cycle 1. Feel free to find your own identity readings or viewings as well, but please let me know the source by sharing the URL so that I can share it with the class.

Please add your relfections on how these readings and viewings are connected with you! Here are the question prompts:

What connections do you draw between the message in these readings and viewings and your own life?  How is this reading or talk connected to your identity? Please find and note specific examples.

This homework is due before the third period at the end of lunch on Friday before Class 05.

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 1 (From our Class!)

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium.

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 2 (From our Class!)

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Homework References for IBIL Cycle 1: Identity

Me (Self)

Adkins, A. (2015, August 12). Who am I? A philosophical inquiry [Video]. TED Ed.

Ferrera, A. (2021, July 10). Your identity is your superpower [Video]. TED.

Health Assured Team. (2022, May 20). Building a healthy self-identity. Wisdom Wellbeing. https://www.healthassured.org/blog/building-a-healthy-self-identity

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium. https://medium.com/@jpalandurkar2001/importance-of-self-identity-and-its-benefits-1633763926c3

Psychology Today Staff. (2025). Identity. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/identity

Reilly, E. (2024, December 5). Performing Identity: Exploring self-expression in Japan. Medium. https://medium.com/texas-immersive/performing-identity-exploring-self-expression-in-japan-b93edf92f525

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Both

Ahluwalia, J. (2020, August 14). Both not half: How language shapes identity [Video]. TEDxChandigarh.

Japan Documented. (2024, December 26). A Japanese-American’s perspective on culture gaps, identity and beauty standards [Video]. Japan Documented.

Matsumoto, T. (2021, November 25). New film “whole looks at daily struggles of mixed-race Japanese. Nippon.com. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c030148/

Thompson-Hernadez, W. (2019, February 20). Chicano subculture in Japan [Video]. Youtube. The New York Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA&t=6s

All

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Nimenya, S. (2016, December 24). We are not all that different: Race and culture identity [Video]. TEDxSnolsleLibraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuAok_Xiyg

Sechrest-Ehrhardt, L. (2023, August, 25). Social identity and social interaction [Video]. TedxGeorgeMasonU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29C3ts4YxAA

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Note: These are the readings and viewings to use for your homework for this course. You can use others’ related content, but please email me the URL and include it in this document, so I can format it and share it with other students, as they may want to read it.

Summary: We ensured that your homework and uploads were complete and accurate. Then, I shared more about what self, both, and all mean in terms of identity. ‘All’ is a term loosely related to intersectionality (a term defined by Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor of Law, UCLA and Columbia University).

Southern Poverty Law Center. (2016, May 19). Intersectionality 101 [Video]. Teaching Tolerance: Southern Poverty Law Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dnj2IyYjE

Class 02 Homework on Your Identity and Culture: Please take 3-4 pages of notes on two readings or viewings from the offerings below in keywords and use summarizations as much as possible. Whenever you can, especially using “direct quotations,” note the page and paragraph number to help you know where you got the information. These actions will also help you avoid plagiarism.

Please edit the information in each reading or viewing according to the example below as accurately as possible. I can help edit. Here is the list of all the readings and viewings for Cycle 1. Feel free to find your own identity as well, but please let me know the source by sharing the URL so that I can share it with the class.

This homework is due before the third period at the end of lunch on Friday before Class 04.

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 1 (From our Class!)

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium.

https://medium.com/@jpalandurkar2001/importance-of-self-identity-and-its-benefits-1633763926c3

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 2 (From our Class!)

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Homework References for IBIL Cycle 1: Identity

Me (Self)

Adkins, A. (2015, August 12). Who am I? A philosophical inquiry [Video]. TED Ed.

Ferrera, A. (2021, July 10). Your identity is your superpower [Video]. TED.

Health Assured Team. (2022, May 20). Building a healthy self-identity. Wisdom Wellbeing. https://www.healthassured.org/blog/building-a-healthy-self-identity

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium. https://medium.com/@jpalandurkar2001/importance-of-self-identity-and-its-benefits-1633763926c3

Psychology Today Staff. (2025). Identity. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/identity

Reilly, E. (2024, December 5). Performing Identity: Exploring self-expression in Japan. Medium. https://medium.com/texas-immersive/performing-identity-exploring-self-expression-in-japan-b93edf92f525

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Both

Ahluwalia, J. (2020, August 14). Both not half: How language shapes identity [Video]. TEDxChandigarh.

Japan Documented. (2024, December 26). A Japanese-American’s perspective on culture gaps, identity and beauty standards [Video]. Japan Documented.

Matsumoto, T. (2021, November 25). New film “whole looks at daily struggles of mixed-race Japanese. Nippon.com. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c030148/

Thompson-Hernadez, W. (2019, February 20). Chicano subculture in Japan [Video]. Youtube. The New York Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA&t=6s

All

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Nimenya, S. (2016, December 24). We are not all that different: Race and culture identity [Video]. TEDxSnolsleLibraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuAok_Xiyg

Sechrest-Ehrhardt, L. (2023, August, 25). Social identity and social interaction [Video]. TedxGeorgeMasonU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29C3ts4YxAA

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Note: These are the readings and viewings to use for your homework for this course. You can use others’ related content, but please email me the URL and include it in this document, so I can format it and share it with other students, as they may want to read it.

Summary: We studied and discussed the layers between identity and culture, as well as the multiple dimensions of diversity and culture, and your own identity. You also learned more about your classmates and me. We reflected on the dimensions of our identity and culture.

Features of Culture Statements: 

• No one is exactly like me.
• I have many things in common with the members of my family and community.
• Every person in the world needs some of the same things I need.

Features of Culture Questions:

• Celebrations: What kinds of celebrations are important in your family? In your country?
• Greetings: How do you generally greet people you don’t know?
• Beliefs about hospitality: How do you show hospitality in your community? In your school? In your home?
• The role of family: Is there a particular age at which you celebrate an important event in your life with your family or community?
• Attitudes about personal space and privacy: How important do you feel it is to have your own space and privacy?

Framework and Standards: 
Everyone has a culture(s). It shapes how we see ourselves, others, and the world. 

Essential questions: 

• How does culture shape the way we see ourselves, others, and the world?
• How does my culture shape me?
• Why is it important to understand culture?

Lesson adapted from Peace Corps: Features of Culture

Class 02 Homework on Your Identity and Culture: Please take 3-4 pages of notes on two readings or viewings from the offerings below in keywords and use summarizations as much as possible. Whenever you can, especially using “direct quotations,” note the page and paragraph number to help you know where you got the information. These actions will also help you avoid plagiarism.

Please edit the information in each reading or viewing according to the example below as accurately as possible. I can help edit. Here is the list of all the readings and viewings for Cycle 1. Feel free to find your own identity as well, but please let me know the source by sharing the URL so that I can share it with the class.

This homework is due before the third period at the end of lunch on Friday, before Class 03, by taking notes and inserting the photos you take of them in your Google Doc.

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 1

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 2

Homework References for IBIL Cycle 1: Identity

Me (Self)

Adkins, A. (2015, August 12). Who am I? A philosophical inquiry [Video]. TED Ed.

Ferrera, A. (2021, July 10). Your identity is your superpower [Video]. TED.

Health Assured Team. (2022, May 20). Building a healthy self-identity. Wisdom Wellbeing. https://www.healthassured.org/blog/building-a-healthy-self-identity

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium. https://medium.com/@jpalandurkar2001/importance-of-self-identity-and-its-benefits-1633763926c3

Psychology Today Staff. (2025). Identity. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/identity

Reilly, E. (2024, December 5). Performing Identity: Exploring self-expression in Japan. Medium. https://medium.com/texas-immersive/performing-identity-exploring-self-expression-in-japan-b93edf92f525

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Both

Ahluwalia, J. (2020, August 14). Both not half: How language shapes identity [Video]. TEDxChandigarh.

Japan Documented. (2024, December 26). A Japanese-American’s perspective on culture gaps, identity and beauty standards [Video]. Japan Documented.

Matsumoto, T. (2021, November 25). New film “whole looks at daily struggles of mixed-race Japanese. Nippon.com. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c030148/

Thompson-Hernadez, W. (2019, February 20). Chicano subculture in Japan [Video]. Youtube. The New York Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA&t=6s

All

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Nimenya, S. (2016, December 24). We are not all that different: Race and culture identity [Video]. TEDxSnolsleLibraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuAok_Xiyg

Sechrest-Ehrhardt, L. (2023, August, 25). Social identity and social interaction [Video]. TedxGeorgeMasonU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29C3ts4YxAA

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Note: These are the readings and viewings to use for your homework for this course. You can use others related to identity, but please email me the URL and include it in this document, so I can format it and share it with other students, as they might want to read it.