Abstract
This report is a memoir of the author's life as an English teacher at the National College of Technology, Fukui College from 1988, the year he was appointed, to the present (FY2024), focusing on the textbooks he used, especially textbooks not approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (hereinafter “unauthorized textbooks”). Here he has limited himself to unapproved textbooks because he can/could select them at his own discretion based on his own teaching policy. Section 2 describes his English teaching policy (teaching beliefs and methods). Section 3 lists the unauthorized textbooks used in order of year and the reasons for their adoption.Section 4 describes the author's first unique (English teaching) activities in FY2022 and FY2023, such as (1) preparing reports by using newspapers, (2) investigating the influence of teaching (textbooks used) on the success of technical English proficiency tests in early grades,(3) giving feedback to individuals after their conducting English presentations, and (4) letting students make presentations in English using AI such as DeepL and On-doku kun. Section 5 is the conclusion of the paper. Appendices include (i) a list of assessment targets other than regular examinations by year, (ii) a record of the 2023 University Transfer Tutorial, (iii) a list of foreign films and music used in English classes at Fukui Prefectural University by year so far, etc.
https://ror.org/01n09qc98 
