Annual PIE SIG Okinawa Conference 2024
Hotel Mahaina Wellness Resort • Motobu, Okinawa, Japan
📌 Event Details
March 1–3, 2024
Friday through SundayIn-Person Event
Presentations & PerformancesHotel Mahaina
Wellness Resort in Motobu, Okinawa📍 Venue Showcase
🎙️ Featured Speakers
Kim Rockell
Komazawa University
Associate Professor Kim Rockell is an ethnomusicologist and classical guitarist teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Komazawa University in Tokyo. His research interests encompass plucked-string traditions, Philippine rondalla and Hispanic musical influences in the Asia Pacific, migrant music and music in diaspora, and the music/language nexus. Recently, while learning traditional Noh in Japan, he has begun exploring the educational potential of English language Noh.
This talk traces the trajectory of a decade-long Japan-based research journey on music and performance in education. It introduces past projects exploring the strategies teachers with musical backgrounds bring to language teaching, applications to computer-assisted language learning (CALL), English-medium instruction in Tohoku and Tokyo, and the development of English musical theater based on traditional Noh.
James Carpenter
Rikkyo University
James Carpenter explores how individuals learn in unique environments and is currently conducting research alongside learners and teachers at a school for the visually impaired in Tokyo.
This session outlines a research methodology combining conversation analysis with quantitative approaches to evaluate classroom communication and interaction in performance-oriented settings.