NPO The Japan Association for Language Teaching

This session involved a number of presenters giving short (15-20 minute) introductions to activities or ideas they thought might be helpful for others. Conversation Modelling – Charlie Bell Charlie gave a presentation discussing his preliminary research findings into the effects of conversation modelling on student motivation. Modelling involved him preparing a video of students taking…

Dr. Gillis-Futaka’s presentation began by outlining a number of points to lay the groundwork for a broader workshop on methods to engage students while doing extensive/intensive reading classes. She outlined 6 areas that teachers need to be aware of in order to motivate students: emotion; personalization; choice; variety and novelty; challenge and; using multiple senses.…

Dr. Hadley of Niigata University discussed the value and challenges of Grounded Theory as it applies to research in applied linguistics. He began by defining in broad terms what is meant by grounded theory as, he argues, the term is often misapplied and misunderstood in a number of disciplines. He continued by giving a background…