@article{oai:ncu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000246,
 author = {Haynes, Louise},
 journal = {人間文化研究},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {For several years, social issues have been making their way into English language classroom in Japan. What is the impact on the students of raising these issues? Are learners able to sufficiently cope with the language and with the subject matter? Is the information they learn meaningful to them? If so, in what ways? This paper reports the results of an action research project in which learner's comments in the form of homework answers were analyzed to find some answers to the questions above. The results show that through reading English passages and discussing a variety of social topics, student awareness of world issues increases as does their understanding of how these issues are interrelated. Focusing on the topic of HIV/AIDS in particular, students begin to reflect on their own lives, attitudes and behaviors, and seriously consider the consequences of the choices they may make in their lives.},
 pages = {79--92},
 title = {Social Issues in the EFL Classroom : The student's perspective},
 volume = {11},
 year = {2009}
}