Henshaw Michael James

Faculty of Veterinary MedicineLecturer
One Health Research CenterLecturer
Last Updated :2025/01/11

■Researcher basic information

Degree

  • B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Profile Information

  • I'm a lecturer of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), focusing solely on bachelor- and PhD-course students at the faculty of veterinary medicine. My specialty is a branch of EFL called English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Basically, I must provide field-specific language tools to veterinary students so they can navigate the global context. As I am neither trained as a veterinarian nor are there any EFL texts specifically designed for veterinarians, I often apply corpus linguistics as a method to develop useful course materials.

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Research Keyword

  • internationalization
  • linguistic morphology
  • evolutionary biology
  • race relations
  • intellectual history
  • inter-cultural communication
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • corpus linguistics

Research Field

  • Humanities & social sciences, Primary/secondary education and curricula, English for Specific Purposes
  • Humanities & social sciences, English linguistics, Corpus Linguistics

■Career

Career

  • Apr. 2018 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Specially Appointed Lecturer
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2018
    Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Educational Background

  • Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2008, Oxford Seminars, Certificate in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
  • Sep. 1999 - Mar. 2004, University of California, Santa Barbara, Faculty of Black Studies

■Research activity information

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Mixing Vessel for International Communication　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Michael James Henshaw
    Sapporo Summer Symposium for One Health 2018, 21 Sep. 2018, English, Public discourse
    [Invited], [International presentation]

    Ppt slides
  • Teaching vocabulary and phrases beyond the instructor’s knowledge range with a purpose-built corpus of veterinary medicine　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Michael James Henshaw
    Japan Assoc. for Lang. Teaching (JALT) Hokkaido 2017, 01 Oct. 2017, English, Oral presentation
    [Invited], [Domestic Conference]

    Published
  • Data-Mining Billions of Words to Improve Your Writing: An interactive workshop using corpus linguistics　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Michael James Henshaw
    Guest presentation, e3: English Engineering Education program, Feb. 2017, English, Public discourse
    [Invited], [Domestic Conference]

    workshop handout

Media Coverage

  • Radio Deejay　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Sep. 2001
    KCSB 91.9 Santa Barbara
    Dancing in Your Head jazz radio program
    [Media report]

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