A Seminar: “Assessment without Evaluation: A Way Out of the Grammar-Feedback Dilemma”

Grammar feedback has long been considered a sine qua non of second language writing instruction, but John Truscott's (1996) controversial article has ignited what has become a long-standing debate over the efficacy of grammar feedback.

Cooperative Learning Structures to Promote Language Acquisition

Cooperative learning strategies called structures dramatically improve comprehensible input, frequency of language production, and a safe social environment. Participants experience a number of structures. Using RallyRobin students take turns speaking to a partner. Using Timed Pair Share in pairs each student speaks for an allotted time.

Teaching 140 Characters at a Time: Twitter and the Language Classroom

Social media sites such as Mixi, Twitter, and Facebook provide a way to extend the language classroom. However, these types of sites also present a number of pitfalls—for both the instructor and students. In particular, privacy issues cause many teachers to be reticent to utilize these platforms.

Language and Technology: Rationale for Inclusion in the Japanese University EFL Classroom

In the twenty-first century Japanese university level EFL class, there are a number of gaps that emerge between the English teacher and the average Japanese student: age, gender, nationality, and cultural identity. However, with respect to this report, one of the most critical gaps is that of the digital natives, the students, versus digital immigrants, the teacher.

Mobile Audio Recording and the Web for Language Teachers

In this talk, Scott Lockman will introduce free web-based tools and a process for using those tools that will allow students and teachers to create and share audio with common smart phone and cell phone technology. Mobile audio recording technology makes it easy for language teachers to prepare original listening materials for self-directed students to download and listen to in their own time.

Tokyo Chapter Officer Election

We will be electing officers for the next year. Thus, we
have a Call for Nominations, as below. if you would like to run for
office, or would like to nominate someone, please let me know by email.
<sayokoy@gmail.com></sayokoy@gmail.com>

*** Call for Nominations for 2011-2012 Officers for Tokyo JALT ***

Officer positions:
President:
Publicity:
Programs:
Treasurer:
Membership:

Recording officer:

Grammar Instruction and Processing Instruction

Since the 1990s, researchers began to seriously examine the issue of
how learners interact with input asking questions such as "why do they
skip over some things in the input?" and "what makes some features
harder to process than others?" (VanPatten and Jegerski, 2010).

Such questions drove researchers to examine the effects not of

5th CALL Seminar at Sophia University (Japanese/English)

5th CALL Seminar at Sophia University

All information is in Japanese. Prof. Eucharia Donnery's talk will be in English.

日時: 2011年7月22日(金)10:00～17:00 (受付開始 9:00～)
場所: 上智大学 CALL D教室(2号館B2F)
対象: 高等学校の英語(外国語)教育をご担当の先生方
主催: 上智大学文学部・外国語学部・一般外国語教育センター・総合メディアセンター 共催
協賛: チエル株式会社

プログラム:
9:00 ～ 受付開始
10:00 ～ 10:05 開会の挨拶
学術交流担当副学長 教授 YIU Angela

English Rakugo and its Effectiveness in English Education

This session will cover the history of rakugo, focusing on its relations with Western stories and “English rakugo” from the perspectives of English education.

JALT2011

Join us in Tokyo for JALT2011, the 37th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. The conference theme for this year is "Teaching • Learning • Growing."

More details can be found at at http://jalt.org/conference.