Local English Club (LEC)は、北海道の札幌市にあります。幼稚園児と小学生のための英会話教室は、2016年春、月曜日に真駒内駅の近くで、そして土曜日に苗穂駅とバスセンター前駅の間でスタートしました。その後、永山LECで金曜日のクラスを追加しました。
Makomanai LEC :
南区真駒内幸町２丁目１−５
真駒内総合福祉センター 1階, 学習室 A
Nagayama Park LEC :
中央区北2条東6丁目
旧永山邸２階,和室C
LECの校長であるLoren Bundtは、米国のネブラスカ州とモンタナ州で育ちました。カリフォルニアのBethany Collegeで歴史と英文学の学士号を取得した後、ネブラスカのWayne State Collegeで歴史の修士課程を修了し、Arizona州立大学で英語教師の資格 (TESOL*) を取得しました。
１９９７年以来、主に非常勤講師として東京の複数の大学で英語と文学を教えております。自分が育った地、アメリカに似た場所に住むことを望んで、２０１１年に北海道に家族と移り住みました。２０１３年に、札幌の南区と中央区の二つの幼稚園で教え始めましたが、幼稚園の保護者の方々数人からご丁寧な依頼を受け、２０１６年のLEC開校に至りました。
Translated by Hiroko Takada Amick of IBS. Email: <hta@internationalbusinessservices.net>
Local English Club (LEC) is based in Sapporo, Hokkaido. In the spring of 2016, we opened English classrooms for kindergartners and grade schoolers on Mondays near Makomanai Station and on Saturdays between Naebo and Bus Center Mae Stations. In the following years, we have added more Friday classes at Nagayama LEC.
Loren Bundt, LEC’s head teacher, grew up in Nebraska and Montana in the USA. He earned one BA in history and a second in English literature at Bethany College in California. He completed a Master’s degree in history at Wayne State College in Nebraska. His language teaching training includes:
| TESOL* English teacher certificate from Arizona State University |
| Debbie Hepplewhite’s Synthetic Phonics Training Course |
| TPRS** Training Series and Electives for storytelling in the language classroom |
| Cambridge Assessment English: Speaking Examiner (young learners Pre A1 Starters & A1 Movers) |
| Cambridge Assessment English: Teaching English Online certificate |
Loren has been teaching English language and literature in Japan since 1997, mainly as an adjunct instructor at several universities in Tokyo. Wanting to live some place similar to where he grew up in America, he moved his family to Hokkaido in 2011. In 2013, he began teaching at two kindergartens in Sapporo’s Minami and Chuo Wards. The kind requests of some of the parents at the kindergartens led to the opening of LEC in 2016.
*Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
**Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling