220 JALT2011 ConferenCe ProCeedings T E A C H I N G • L E A R N I N G • G R O W I N G English for Liberal Arts: Towards a New Paradigm for University Language Teaching Paul Wadden International Christian University Chris Carl Hale International Christian University Edward Rush Mahidol University Ditthayanan Punyaratabandhu Mahidol University Michael Kleindl International Christian University Rab Paterson International Christian University Steve Engler International Christian University reference data: Wadden, P., Hale, C., Rush, E., Punyaratabandhu, D., Kleindl, M., Paterson, R., & Engler, S. (2012). English for liberal arts: Toward a new paradigm for university language teaching. In A. Stewart & N. Sonda (Eds.), JALT 2011 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo: JALT. The paper attempts to articulate a novel approach to English language teaching in which language repro- duction itself is not the ultimate goal of instruction, but rather the ultimate transformation of the learner in the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human. This goal has long been a feature of liberal arts education, and the authors believe that it should not be limited to students in liberal arts colleges in the West but can form the basis for a dynamic approach to language teaching at the university level. The authors observe that East Asia is an attractive venue for challenging and enriching students with the values and educational goals of the liberal arts through the teaching of English as a foreign language, and FULL SCREEN NEXT PAGE  ONLINE