Dr. Brian Cullen has been a teacher and education researcher for 30 years, living in Japan and working at every level of the education system including elementary, junior high, senior high, university, adult education, and teacher training. He has published over 100 articles on education, over 30 textbooks, and is the editor of the Evolving Education series of books for teachers. As an NLP master trainer, Brian has shown how language patterns, anchoring, state management, storytelling, modelling, and many other NLP techniques can be effectively applied to education to help students learn more easily.
Many of his publications and more details are available through the links below. Or contact Dr. Brian Cullen for more information.
Academic Papers in Education Research
98 papers in this category
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- A Case for Using Japanese in College English Classes
- A Case Study of a Textbook’s Development Over 20 Years
- A Corpus Analysis of English Pop Songs
- A Study into Brainstorming Before Speaking Tasks
- Active Learning Through Poster Presentations
- Ancestors: Researching and Sharing Personal Histories
- Applying Dilts’ Model of Logical Levels to Language Learning
- Approaches to Material Writing
- Approaches to Materials Writing
- Book Review: Lessons From Nothing
- Book Review: Projects from the University Classroom
- Brainstorming Before Speaking Tasks
- Clean Language in the Language Classroom
- CLIL and the use of Content as a Context for Language Teaching
- Collaboration, Meetings, and Networks: The Un-Lonely Life of a Textbook Writer
- Competition, Community, and Connection
- Confusion, Agony and Ecstasy – A Material Writer’s Perfect Storm
- Conversation Flow Plans
- Creating Effective Learning Activities for Returnee Students
- Creative Writing Across All the Senses
- Design and Management of the Common English Curriculum
- Developing Cross-Cultural Understanding through Dialogue
- Development and Implementation of the NIT Vocabulary Contest: Eliciting a Link with University Students
- Difficulties in L2 songwriting
- Eating the Elephant
- Effect of POS-tags on Student Reading Comprehension for General Science and Academic Paper Texts
- Effective Language Patterns in the Classroom
- Effectiveness of Poster Presentations for CLIL Courses
- EFL Textbooks: Explaining Japan to the World
- Environmental and Ethical Issues in EFL Materials for Engineering Students
- Evolving Education Volume 1
- Evolving Education Volume 2
- Facilitating Learning Shifts Through Milton Model Language Patterns
- Fluency Development through Skill Transference
- From Words to Symbols and Back Again
- Getting Back to Basics in Material Design
- Getting Creative in Our Materials
- Getting Started in Materials Development (video of presentation)
- Goal-Stepping: Setting and Clarifying Goals in Physical Space
- Helping Students to Develop Skills for Setting and Achieving Goals
- Humanity & Technology : A Case Study of a Textbook’s Development Over 20 Years
- Impressions and Thoughts of Oral Communication
- Investigating the Effects of Repeated Reading and NLP Language Patterns on Reading Rate
- Is English Really Neccessary For Everyone: Japanese Voices Raised in Opposition
- Magic Moments: Positive Psychology in Action in the Classroom
- Materials Development Frameworks and the Challenges of Developing Learning Materials
- Meanings in Song : A Model for EFL Material Design
- Metaprograms for Critical Thinking
- Metaprograms for Literacy Development and Critical Thinking
- Modelling the Generation and Maintenance of Classroom Rapport
- Monsters and Mazes: Metaphors for Teacher and Curriculum Change
- Music and Song in Discussion
- Neuro-ELT: Incorporating the Findings of Neuroscience into EFL Materials
- NLP and Magic in Music, Education and Life
- NLP Tips for Storytelling
- Poetry Writing in the EFL Classroom
- Positive Psychology: From the Classroom to the World
- Poster Presentation Sessions in the Technical English Classroom
- Poster Presentations for Engineering Students
- Practical Positive Psychology Activities for the Language Classroom
- PracticalTechniques for Teaching Culture in the EFL Classroom
- Presentations in the Technical English Classroom
- Promoting Learning through Mental Practice and Embodied Simulation
- Scrapbooks: Sharing Your World: Sharing ideas, lessons, and resources
- Shared Identities: Our Interweaving Threads
- Song Dictation
- Songs in Learner-Designed Materials
- Storytelling and the Brain (video)
- Storytelling in the Brain and in the Classroom
- Student Recordings in Oral Communication Assessment
- Supporting L2 Creativity
- Talking About Potatoes: A Dialogue Between an Editor and a Songwriter
- Teaching Materials for Scientific English
- Technical English in Japanese Universities: ESP or Diversity?
- Technical English in the CALL laboratory. Local Decisions, Global Effects
- Techniques in the Culture-Based Classroom
- Tell Me More About “Evolving Education—Tools for Educators”
- The Effect of Teacher Language Pattern Use on Timed Reading Speeds
- The Infinite Possibilities of Scrapbooks
- The Rules You Live By: Clarifying Beliefs and Values in the Classroom
- The Use of Japanese in College English Classes
- The Wheel of Life as a Classroom Coaching Tool
- Tracing the flow of L2 creative writing
- Transitioning from Author to Publisher
- Uniting Multiple Perspectives in Material Writing
- Unmasking the Structure of Rapport
- Using EFL in Music in Japan
- Using Metaprograms to Develop Critical Thinking and Literacy Skills
- Using Songs in Learner-Designed Materials
- Utilizing NLP Language Patterns in Educational Settings
- What are the Chords: Understanding L2 songwriting
- Writing for a book packaging company
- Writing the Winning Entry
Books and Textbooks
3 papers in this category