Robert Anthony Olexa

Profile Information

Affiliation: 准教授, 一般系, 函館工業高等専門学校

Contact information: olexahakodate-ct.ac.jp
Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Tony
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801000083459423
researchmap Member ID: B000297711

Robert “Tony” Olexa is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Technology Hakodate College in Hokkaido, Japan. He has previously worked as an instructor training Japanese high school English teachers at over 50 schools across Japan. He has also been a teacher of young learners in South Korea and at a private international school kindergarten in Tokyo. He has received his MSEd Tesol at Temple University Japan Campus.

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education / Iconicity / Virtual Reality

Education

Sep, 2021 - Present

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2014 - 2016

Masters in Science of Education, Teaching English as a Second Language, Education TESOL, Temple University Japan Campus
Aug, 2003 - Sep, 2009

Japanese and Russian, Languages, University of Alaska, Anchorage
2007 - 2008

Exchange Student, Physical Education, Hokkaido University of Education

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2020

Faculty Development Commitee, Hakodate Kosen Center for the Advancement of Education

Awards

Papers

Educational Nonlinear Stories with Twine

May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Donn Emmanuel Gonda, Eden Mariquit Andrews, John Maurice Gayed, Robert Anthony Olexa, Jeffrey Scott Cross

Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 248-251, Jun, 2022
Syllabus Design of Practical Science in English Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

OKUZAKI Mariko, OLEXA Rober

The Council of College English Teachers, (41) 55-64, Mar, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast author
A Microblog Corpus Using Tumblr for Understanding Japanese University Students’ EFL Writing

Robert Anthony Olexa, Sara Librenjak

JALT CALL 2019: AI and Machine Learning in Language Education. Selected papers from the JALT CALL Conference., 139-151, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Introducing Web-Based English Learning Applications in the Japanese University Classroom

Robert Anthony Olexa

Kantaiheiyo Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo, 15 1-12, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Grammar practice vs. Consciousness raising tasks for teaching subjunctive verb mood.

Robert Anthony Olexa

Temple University Japan Studies in Applied Linguistics, 114 64-73, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Kids English program visits to a Japanese kindergarten ― intentions, expectation and results. Nihon no yōchien ni okeru kizzu ingurisshu puroguramu no torikumi ― sono mokuteki to yosoku, kekka no kōsatsu ― Kantaiheiyo Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo, 12, pp. 215-220

Olexa, R.A, Walsh, A

Kantaiheiyo Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo, (12), 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
From zero to base: developing an English immersion class for young learners.

Robert Anthony Olexa

Temple University Japan Studies in Applied Linguistics., 99 16-27, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author
Approaches to teaching young learners.

Kinkade, J. T, Olexa, R. A, Peters, M, Adam, S. (Editor

Temple University Japan Studies in Applied Linguistics, 99, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

New Zealand: Days at IPU and Palmerston North

(Role: Supervisor (editorial))

May, 2020 (ISBN: 9798622734205)
Dalmation on the Ball

(Role: Supervisor (editorial))

2020
The Samurai Chihuahua

(Role: Supervisor (editorial))

2020
Sports: Fields and Courts!

2019
Go Bananers for Manners!!

2019
Luke and Ben Climb a Mountain

2019

Presentations

Surveying the Iconicity Ratings of Independent Language Learners in VR

Robert Anthony Olexa, Jeffrey S. Cross

Mar 25, 2024
Raising Awareness of the Benefits of Sustainability

Houzhen Zhang, Anqi Liu, Pham Hong Quan, Robert Olexa

AOTULE 2023 University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka, Nov 8, 2023
Iconicity and Communication in VR for Language Learning

Robert Anthony Olexa

Educators in VR VLanguages Meetup, Sep 28, 2023
Understanding Iconicity for Improving Language Learning in Virtual Reality

Robert Anthony Olexa, Jeffrey S. Cross

Aug 3, 2023
Virtual Ryugaku: Naturalistic Language Learning in VR

Robert Anthony Olexa, David Taquet

Sojo University Teaching and Learning Forum: Reflections and Reconfigurations, Feb 17, 2023
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Observations of Iconic Gesture While Learning English in VR

Robert Anthony Olexa, David Taquet, Luc Gougeon

The 27th Annual Conference Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Sep 13, 2022
Usability factors of commercially available Virtual Reality applications for EFL

Robert Anthony Olexa, David Taquet

JALT CALL 2022: Playful Call, Jun 19, 2022
Does the platform matter?: using "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" on multiple devices.

Robert Anthony Olexa

JALTCALL ONLINE 2020, Jun, 2020
Using TUMBLR for EFL Writing in the Japanese University Classroom

Robert Anthony Olexa

JALTCALL 2019 AI and Machine Learning in Language Education, Jun 1, 2019
Language and Culture in Multilingual Stand-Up in Japan

Robert Anthony Olexa

Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference, RMIT, Melbourne Australia, Feb, 2019
Introducing Web-Based English Learning Applications in the Japanese University Classroom

Robert Anthony Olexa

2018 JALT CALL 25th Anniversary Conference. Nagoya, Japan., Jun, 2018
Emotion and Joking Events in a Preschool EFL Story Telling Task

The Fourth St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language Night Whites 2018. Saint Petersburg, Russia, Feb, 2018
EFL yōji-en de sutōrīteringu no kadai ni okeru kanjō ya yūmōa tsukawarekata.

Robert Anthony Olexa

Oct, 2017
Emergent English: Creating Language Norms for Young English Learners

Robert Anthony Olexa

The Asian Conference on Language Learning and The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom., May, 2017
Emergent English: Creating language norms for preschool-aged learners

Robert Anthony Olexa

JALT2016: Transformation in Language Education 42nd Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials, Nov, 2016

Professional Memberships

Nov, 2022

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2022

Virtual Reality Society of Japan
2022

Association For Computing Machinery
2020

The Council of College English Teachers
2019

The Australasian Humour Studies Network
2016

Japanese Association of College English Teachers
2016

Japanese Association of Language Teachers

Research Projects

Virtual Ryugaku: measuring iconicity in VR in relation to language acquisition and cross-cultural communication

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024

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