User:Matthew A Carter

Matthew A. Carter (Matt Carter---マットカーター)was born February 27, 1967 in Redwood City, California. He is a award winning poet, best selling author, teacher and the founder of Universal English Academy based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

In the mid 1990's Carter created the MACX system (Motivated Action through Conscious eXpansion), a system of language acquisition and improvement for adults based on his research and experience of teaching English around the world. The MACX system is based on three circles of expansion, Basics, Style and Presentation with a subset of skills under each heading that are exercized daily.

Biography
Carter's first recognition for poetry came when he was just 14, winning several awards in California Statewide Poetry Contests, including two first place awards in the Bay Area based "Visions of Peace" contest where he won both the Poetry section and Song Writing section the same year (1985).

As a young university student he also became a world traveler, leading to a fascination with culture, dream interpretation and spiritual well-being which would all have a major impact on his future work. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in English Literature and began a career in teaching ESL which took him to Japan for nearly 5 years. During these formative years he began to conceive of and test his system traveling to many other countries to observe their English teaching methods. From these works were formed the basis for the MACX system.

In 1995 he relocated to Honolulu Hawaii, teaching at IIE (Institue of Intensive English) until called to the Big Island of Hawaii. A brief pause from teaching allowed him to pursue his deep interest in Hawaiian history, culture, and spiritualism resulting in the creation of the Hawaii Island CD Drive Guide, a guide that tourists can listen to in their rental cars while driving around the island.

In 2001, Carter co-founded Universal English Academy LLC with Sadanori Takeishi of Taikobo Hawaii Inc, and become sole owner in June of 2004.

Current Work
Currently (2009) Matt Carter continues to act as owner and teacher for Universal English Academy, introducing his MACX system to foreigners with an interest to learn English. UEA allows students to process their newly acquired knowledge in an immersion based home-stay setting. Simultaneously UEA students join a unique blend of uplifting activities connecting the attainment of many prized experiences to their acquisiton of the language with the goal of creating long lasting and sustained motivation.

In addition to teaching, Matt also travels to train overseas TEFL teachers and students his methods he also lectures on a variety of subjects from Language Acquisition Techniques to Being a Peacemaker in the Modern World.

In May of 2012, なぜあの人は、中学英語でもネイティブと仕事ができるのか? (ソフトバンク新書)(Naze ano hito wa chugakko eigo demo Native to shigoto ga dekiru no ka? Softbank Publishing)was released and has been a best selling Business English book since.

Matt Carter is also the author of 3 volumes of poetry. "Fences" in 1985. "The Missing Brick" in 1994. "Spirits of Breath & Water" in 2014. He also wrote "Jimmy Free" in 2012.

Matthew Carter sits on the Board of Directors for the Kona-Hiroshima Peace Festival and the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival. He resides in Kona, Hawaii.