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Columbia, KY resident Tim McAlpine teaching in Japan this semester Adair County friends can follow his time in Osaka by visiting his blog One photo accompanies this article By Duane Bonifer boniferd@lindsey.edu COLUMBIA, KY - For the last two school years, Lindsey Wilson College has hosted students from Baika Women's University in Japan, helping the students improve their English and better understand American culture. And this spring Baika University is learning more about Lindsey Wilson as Associate Professor of English Tim McAlpine spends a semester at the private women's university in Osaka, the second-largest city south of Tokyo. McAlpine is spending the spring semester at the university, where he will teach oral English to Baika students majoring in English. Some of the students McAlpine will teach will be candidates for the yearlong program at Lindsey Wilson. Anxious to meet students will will study here "I wanted to do this because I wanted to get to know the people at Baika better and get a feel for the school in general," McAlpine said. "I'll also be able to meet some students who will come to Lindsey Wilson next fall." Each year, Lindsey Wilson hosts several students from Baika and Kinjo Gakuin University. The students spend an entire year at Lindsey Wilson, where they become immersed in American culture and work on their English skills. "It's been a wonderful opportunity for our Japanese students because they love coming to Columbia," he said. "They know that when they come to Columbia they are coming to a place that does not have a Japanese-American population, so they are forced to learn more about America than they would be in a city with a large Japanese-American population where the temptation might be to fall back on their own language and culture." Columbia resident is no stranger to Japan McAlpine is no stranger to Japan. Following his undergraduate years, he spent extended time in Japan twice: the first time was for 2-1/2 years teaching conversational English classes in Osaka; then after earning a master's degree and graduate work, he spent seven years as an English instructor at Kinjo Gakuin University in Nagoya, Japan. "This is a chance for me to walk back to that place I started after college," McAlpine said. "It's really sort of a special homecoming for me. Japan is something psychologically very important to me because I've spent almost half of my adult life after college living and learning there." While in Japan, McAlpine said he's eager to see how its culture and society have changed in the 15 years since he lived there. When McAlpine last left Japan, the Asian country was one of the world's pre-eminent economic world powers. Since then, it has experienced a severe economic recession and its national political scene has dramatically changed. "One of the things I want to get a feel for while I'm there is what has happened in Japan since the late 1980s -- when everything was riding high and there was so much wealth throughout the country," he said. McAlpine wants to see how attitudes have changed McAlpine is especially interested in learning how attitudes have changed among students at Japanese women's colleges. "In the past, a career was something that Japanese women were interested in having only until they started a family," McAlpine said. "I'm interested in seeing how many of the students see work as a career they will have for a long time instead of something they will do until they get married and start a family." McAlpine also hopes to deepen his understanding of Japanese literature and film."As a literature professor, this is going to be a great time for me to move Japanese literature from the back burner to the front burner," he said. "I'm really looking forward to delving a little more into Japanese literature and learning as much as I can." During his semester in Japan, McAlpine will maintain a regular blog on the Lindsey Wilson Web site. To access his reports Click here Direct comments are not available. However comments, subject to editing, are welcome by sending to: ed@columbiamagazine.com or linda@columbiamagazine.com. or through Submit a Story. This story was posted on 2006-04-07 12:16:37
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