JALT Tochigi proudly hosts Dr James York for a free, 2-hour workshop and Q&A session.

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About the workshop 
         
 In this workshop, you’ll discover how board and card games work as a fantastic tool in a TBLT approach to boost your students’ speaking skills. James will walk you through his framework and worksheets, explain the design choices he made, and offer some real-world tips from his experience using this method for over a decade. Attendees will leave with the ability to emulate all of the framework in their own contexts.

Presenter Bio

 James York plays with many things. Games, taiko, music, code, and pedagogy. One of his proudest gaming moments is defeating Towerfall Ascensions on Legendary difficulty. He’s designed a few small games including a card game for learning Japanese politeness levels. He works at Meiji University, Tokyo, where he teaches and researches the intersection of games and play in education. He is the founder of Ludic Language Pedagogy, and the York Game Lab.