NPO The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

“Constructive Communication Across Gender and Cultures”  「ジェンダーとカルチャーを超えた創造的コミュニケーション」(2017) Two-day conference

This is a day of workshops for teachers by teachers. The workshops include activities to use with your students as well as tools to help you automate repetitive tasks so you can focus on your students and not paperwork.

This event is based on a 1 room schoolhouse. So everyone gets to experience everything.

Teachers are always looking for better ways to teach the most useful words to their students. If you are a teacher and would like to learn about classroom activities that other teachers have found to be successful, or you are a researcher who is interested in word learning and language learning, this is the conference for you!

The call for papers has now finished.

This Nara JALT features Japanese speakers specializing in English language teaching. Three Japanese presenters in various teaching contexts with different career backgrounds will share their practical teaching activities and ideas, and their current teaching projects.

The panel will include current ALTs at schools in the Toyohashi/Hamamatsu area as well as former ALTs with experience in a variety of teaching situations.

Hello from Tottori JALT.

Many teachers complain about demotivated students. We will see, however, that common ideas about motivation are at odds with recent insights in cognitive neuroscience. Negative attitudes are a normal (though not desirable) part of foreign language learning. We will discuss a new approach to student engagement based on the notion of linguaculture learning and emergent motivation.

Title- Creating Comprehensible Input and Blending with  a Task-based Approach for Japanese Primary School English Classes- Part 2                                 

Presenter- John Wiltshier                    

This study investigates topic management through overlaps in teacher-student interactions in English and Japanese topic-based dialogues and task-based dialogues. It aims to elucidate how much functional differences in overlaps affect topic management between the two genres in each language.