Education

• U.S. Naval Academy, B.S., 1953, Electrical Engineering/Mathematics
• Michigan State University, M.A., 1959, Educational Administration
• University of Paris (Sorbonne), Doctorate 2nd Degree., 1962, Sociology
• Michigan State University, Ph.D., 1969, Educational Technology

Research and Professional Experience

Professional History

• 1953-1958 Naval Officer in the U.S. Navy. I served on both coasts and in the Mediterranean and Far East. I served on an AKA, two destroyers and a cruiser.
• 1963-1967 Teacher in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Taught Math, Spanish, and Science in classes which ranged from middle school through junior college.
• 1969-1971 Assistant Professor with Teaching Research in Monmouth, Oregon. Involved in a variety of educational research project both within state and at national level.
• 1971-1982 Assistant and Associate Professor at Michigan State University. Served half-time with Learning and Evaluation Services (LES) and half-time with College of Education (COE). While with the LES I worked with a variety of professors around the campus assisting them in improving their courses, generally through the use of audio/visual media including computers. While with the COE I taught graduate courses in Educational Technology, including Educational Television and CAI.
• 1974-1975 and 1979-1980 Exchange Professor at Mie University in Tsu, Japan. I taught English as a Foreign Language and educational technology including the use of video systems for language learning.
• 1982-1992 Director of the Language Center at Nagoya University of Commerce, Nagoya, Japan. In charge of the teaching of five languages in a high tech environment which included the latest language laboratories facilities, including computers, some with laser disk capacity.
• 1992-1999 Professor of English and Educational Technology at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan Teach both English and Educational Technology at undergraduate and Master's degree level.
• 1999-present retired from Nanzan, but not from life.Active traveling, building websites, educating grandchildren and continually learning. Live half time in Japan, half-time in U.S. (East Lansing, Mi.)

Special Projects Completed

• 1970 Developed self-access writing course for Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.
• 1971 Wrote the Proposal for funded bilingual project designed to integrate three language groups, Russian, Spanish and English in school by 5th grade. All students would develop a receptive bilingualism with English as one of the two languages.
• 1972-1973 Consultant for experimental Russian Language Program at Michigan State University with Frank Ingram.
• 1983 Designed and developed CAI program for IBM called "Here comes Charlie".
• 1984 Designed and developed a 10 cassette Video program for teaching beginning English for Sony Language Laboratories.
• 1992-1997 Created a self-access CALL program at Nanzan University

Biosketch

I experienced the difficulty of language learning first hand, first at the Naval Academy and later at the Sorbonne in France. I also experienced the benefits of knowing other languages through visiting relatives in Norway,living in other language/cultures, and travel in many countries.

While at Michigan State University I became a learning consultant to the Russian Department to help them develop a more effective language program. This led to a series of consultations with a number of different language groups including the English Language Center at MSU. I published a number of articles on what was generally known as the Comprehension Approach, but which I preferred to call the "Shut Up and Listen" approach.

I became interested in communication in general, languages as a communicative device, with Calculus, Music and English as specific examples of languages. I also began to see language as a tool for thought. I began developing a general model of language which I called a Sens-it Cell Language System. I also began developing a Sens-it Cell Teaching System which could serve as a general guide for CALL software development

I became the Director of a high tech Language Center in Nagoya, Japan in the 1980's where I experimented with various versions of the developing Sens-it Cell approach. I then went to Nanzan University and established a self-access CALL system as an initial demonstration of what can be done with this approach.

I remain convinced that CALL using some variation of the Sens-it Cell approach will play an ever increasing role in language education in the future, so I continue to lecture on the topic and create model software programs to demonstrate the potential.

Everything I have done has been done as an educator. I therefore encourage everyone to look at the Sens-it Cell models, learn from them, modify them, change them, expand them, and test them. I have attempted in the creation of these Sens-it Models to maintain a scientific attitude so that everything I have said or done should be experimentally testable. Only through experiments can we verify our opinions or confirm our convictions.

Selected Publications

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