NPO The Japan Association for Language Teaching

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    December Meeting and Year-end Bonenkai

    Chapter presenters andSteve BrownProgram 1 (Chapter presenters) (12:15~14:55) 1) Title: Highlights of JALT2008 Presenter: Joyce Cunningham 2) Title: Google as Home Base Presenter; Dan Waldhoff > 3) Title: JALT ’08 Conference Reports Presenter: John Racine 4) Title to be announced Presenter: Machi Okumura (Title to be announced) 5) Title: Translation-Transliteration-Summary of Japanese Domain Specific Texts […]

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    February Meeting – Afternoon Program

    Colin GrahamProgram Presentation Title: An Introduction to British Sign Language Presenter: Colin Graham Descripton: In this demonstration lesson, the presenter will teach some basic British Sign Language, demonstrate some of the differences between it and other sign languages, and explain some of the ways that signing can be incorporated into English lessons as a fun […]

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    May One-day Meeting/Morning Presentation: Language Development – Vocabulary Teaching for Young Adults

    Dr. James Banner (Hilderstone College, UK)This seminar will explore fertile areas and techniques for teaching vocabulary. These areas will include art and design, cult objects, fashion, icons and figures from popular culture. This will be especially useful for teachers of teenagers/young adults and young professionals. Techniques covered will include memory exercises, word circles and learner […]

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    May One-day Meeting/Afternoon Presentation: Cross-Cultural Issues in Education/Working in an Intenational Environment

    Dr. James Banner (Hilderstone College, UK)The seminar is a celebration of some of the differences in international cultures in terms of etiquette, hygiene, forms of greetings, body language, food and drink, with special emphasis on different learning styles and differing views on what constitutes a good student, a good teacher and a good course. The […]

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    October 4th All-day Meeting – Morning Program (An Inconvenience Truth about Interlanguage)

    Charles KowalskiAs every English teacher in Japan knows, Japanese-influenced English, or โ€œinterlanguageโ€, can lead learners to produce sentences that are (a) unintentionally comical, (b) very different from the intended meaning, (c) completely incomprehensible, or (d) all of the above. This presentation will focus on cross-linguistic studies to explain certain often-confused areas, such as the use […]

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    October 4th All-day Meeting – Afternoon Program (Student Presentations)

    Sun Ming Lin (Chrystal), Liu Mao (Maria), Keiko Iwasaki, Li Wei (Lily), and Liang YueliThe following is the line up of five student presentations. a. Title: Chinese Psychological Counseling (English) This presenter is Sun Ming Lin (or you can call her Crystal). She is from Changchun in China. She majored in Social Psychology and also […]

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    Creativity in the Classroom (four presentations)

    Tomoka Kaneko, Tim Murphey, Atsushi Iida, and Samuel NforProgram starts at 1:00. (Doors open from 12:30. No pre-registration required!) Presentations: 1. The Effects of Speaking Activity Attitudes on Willingness to Communicate and Classroom Speaking Anxiety by Tomoka Kaneko, Ibaraki University This study investigates the relationships between learnersโ€™ attitudes toward speaking activities, their willingness to communicate, […]

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    October All-day Meeting (A.M. and P.M. sessions)

    (A.M.-Sanae Kawamoto and Hanna Schnack: P.M.- Lawrence Cisar and Tomoka Kaneko09:30 Registration begins 10:00~11:45 (Morning Session) Simple Sentences for Young Learners by Sanae Kawamoto and Hanna Schnack In this workshop, the presenters will show you how to teach vocabulary and simple sentences in a communicative way to young learners. This method can be used in […]

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    JALT Professional Development Symposium 2010

    Speakers will be anounced on the Symposium’s siteThe Ibaraki Chapter will be co-sponsoring this symposium along with West Tokyo, Gunma, Shizuoka, and Tokyo chaprters to be held at Tokai University’s Shonan Campus. Theme: Helping Learners Build Multiple Skills by setting Clear Goals, Developing Effective Methodologies, and Creating Appropriate materials. Paticipating organizations: West Tokyo JALT, JALT […]