TBAA 2-Day Conference and Speech Contest Both Conference and Speech Contest open to students! For details see https://sites.google.com/site/sddinokinawa/home THEME Speech, Drama and Debate: Creating Bonds, Building Classroom Communities, Acquiring 21st Century Skills Sponsored by the JALT Speech, Drama, & Debate SIG and Okinawa JALT Chapter with the support of Meio University Special Airfare and Resort […]
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Lan Wu, Yamagata UniversityAbstract- Although most Japanese college students have already learned all of their basic English grammar through more than 6 six years of English education, many of them cannot use this knowledge communicatively (speaking and writing) and make many simple errors. The attitude of โit is all right as long as it is […]
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various SpeakersSeveral local JALT members are heading to the JALT International Conference in Shizukoka later this month. This is your chance to catch up with them and see their presentations here at home.
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Brent Simmonds (Meijo University), David Barker (Gifu University), John Spiri (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University)JALT Gifu chapter will again be having a special session to allow local members presenting at JALT2015 a chance to give their presentation to a friendly audience and get valuable feedback before the big conference. There will be four presentations: EFL and […] |
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Contact person: Bob SandersonThis will be an informal chance for officers and regular members to share ideas and discuss plans for the coming year and gear up for JALT2015 (happening Nov 20-23 in Shizuoka). We’ll meet in the back area of the pub by the pool table, which should be fairly quiet on a Sunday […] |
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Jane SpiroPresenter: Jane Spiro Date & Time: Friday,11/13/2015. 18.30 – 21.00 Venue: Tokyo Keizai University. Building #6 (the big light blue building), Room F414 Rough Schedule 18:30 – Registration opens 19:00 – First presentation 19:50 – Break 20:00 – Second presentation 21:00 – Skeedadle Map and directions from the center of Tokyo: http://www.tku.ac.jp/english/access/ Take the […] |
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Maurissa George, Ian Nakamura, Scott GardnerWe will have three presentations at this meeting. Presentation One Establishing the Base: Building Academic Readiness in English Language Learners Best Practices and Theory – Maurissa George An informational workshop to provide insight into the current curriculum concerns of young English learners’ administrators and educators. In early learner English programs […]
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Jane SpiroDr Jane Spiro, a Featured Speaker this yearโs National JALT Conference in Shizuoka, has agreed to do a special presentation in Tottori about assessing creativity. She will be in Japan for only two weeks and so this is an extra special opportunity to meet this world renowned lecturer from Oxford Brookes University in the […]
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VariousThis month we have another instalment of our popular annual PechaKucha presentations. There will be a number of presenters who will each take turns presenting their chosen topic using only 20 slides for 20 seconds per slide. This creative event promises to be a rewarding experience for all involved where people can have fun sharing […] |
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Jane SpiroThis workshop will show how the features of text types such as recipes, instructions, and memos, can be recognised, mixed and subverted in order to generate inventive new texts. Participants will be able to experiment with these activities for themselves, to experience the ways in which the activities can develop both language awareness and […]
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Dr. Jane SpiroPRESENTATION ABSTRACT Genre as a recipe for writing This workshop will show how the features of text types such as recipes, instructions, memos, can be recognised, mixed and subverted in order to generate inventive new texts. Participants will be able to experiment with these activities for themselves, to experience the ways in which […]
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Dr. Jane SpiroTHIS EVENT PROUDLY CO-SPONSORED BY THE 4 KANSAI JALT CHAPTERS NARA, KYOTO, OSAKA AND KOBE. PRESENTATION ABSTRACT Genre as a recipe for writing This workshop will show how the features of text types such as recipes, instructions, memos, can be recognised, mixed and subverted in order to generate inventive new texts. Participants will […] |
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Dr. Alice Chik, Macquarie UniversityLanguage learning histories have brought to the fore the diversity in affordances, trajectories and contexts of learning, but most language learning histories take the form of written texts. In this talk, I will present an alternate way of knowing our learners: draw and tell. I will use visual narratives created by […]
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Dr. Alice Chik, Macquarie UniversityLanguage learning histories have brought to the fore the diversity in affordances, trajectories and contexts of learning, but most language learning histories take the form of written texts. In this talk, I will present an alternate way of knowing our learners: draw and tell. I will use visual narratives created by […]
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Dr. Alice Chik, Macquarie UniversityLanguage learning histories have brought to the fore the diversity in affordances, trajectories and contexts of learning, but most language learning histories take the form of written texts. In this talk, I will present an alternate way of knowing our learners: draw and tell. I will use visual narratives created by […] |
3 events,JALT2015: 41st Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition Friday 20th to Monday 23rd November, 2015 Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center “GRANSHIP”Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Get full-color preview brochures:1. Theme and Main Speakers2. Registration, JALT Junior, and Travel3. Invited Speakers, Film, and Getting around Shizuoka Full conference handbook Call […] Over 600 presentations covering all aspects of language educationEvent: 41st Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition Where: Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center “GRANSHIP”, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan When: 20th – 23rd November 2015 Theme: Focus on the Learner Co-chairs: Dexter Da Silva and Kay Irie Event: 41st Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition Where: Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center “GRANSHIP”, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan When: 20th – 23rd November 2015 Theme: Focus on the Learner Co-chairs: Dexter Da Silva and Kay Irie |
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James Dean Brown (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)This presentation will grapple with the issues involved in using classroom assessments to improve teaching and learning. I will begin with several key questions: What is learning? And, how does assessment relate to learning? I will go on to argue that the key is to link assessment to […]
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Hร Phแบกm Viแปt*Hosted jointly by the JALT Nagoya and Gifu chapters* The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) was officially adopted as the national framework of reference for foreign language education in Vietnam in 2008. This leads to the development of Vietnamese Competency Framework for English Language Teachers, major changes in national entry […] |
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Nigel Caplan, Stephen Ryan, Katherine Thornton, Takashi Katsuragi, Eriko Kawai, Shu Ueyama, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Hideaki Kogo, Timothy O’Donnell, Kuniaki Sato, Simon Goddard Weedon, R. Taggart MurpheyAs Japan continues to position itself on the global stage, discussions around English education have expanded and a variety of measures have been introduced to reform the education system. With […]
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Contact person: Bob SandersonWe spend too much time sitting indoors at work and in meetings, so this “My Share” event aims to get people meeting more informally and sharing ideas about what they learned and experienced at JALT2015 (and elsewhere) while enjoying the beautiful fall foliage, traditional shops and temples, and the iconic waterfall in […]
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Hร Phแบกm ViแปtFor years, the focus of assessment in Vietnam has been on the results of learning. It often comes in the form of tests designed to measure how much the students know from what they have been taught, not what they can do with the language they have learned. This presentation explains how two […] |
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Eric Hauser, University of Electro-Communications and University of Hawaiสปi at MฤnoaToday, oral proficiency in a second language (L2), or L2 oracy, is often treated as equally, or perhaps even more, important than L2 literacy. Oral language tests are therefore often an important component of L2 educational programs. Such tests may involve the test-taker in performing […] |
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Paul Beaufait , David OckertWest Tokyo JALT and the Peer Support Group are pleased to present an afternoon on Academic writing and publishing: Abstract: In this three-part presentation, JALT Writers’ Peer Support Group (PSG) members will first describe the PSG and its workings with aspiring academic writers. Then they will outline strategies for subsequent stages […]
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Scott Aubrey (Kwansei Gakuin University)With increasing access to technology in the classroom and the increasing importance of collaboration both inside the classroom and in the community, this presentation explores the novel application of new technology in the language classroom to increase learner writing proficiency and to provide near real-time feedback and error correction to language […]
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Chris Haswell (Kyushu University)Presentation This presentation covers recent efforts by MEXT to internationalize Japanese education through the use of English. The current language education policies in Japan mandate over 10 years of English language education. Within this context, the number of international students in Japan is at its highest level ever and projected to continue […] |