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JALT2021 Invited Speakers
Bill Balsamo Asian Scholar
Willy A Renandya
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Sponsored by JALT
Can Reading Lead to Better Writing
Saturday, Nov 13, 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Research shows that reading and writing are closely connected. Students who can read well can be expected to write well. However, repeated observations show that this is not always the case. Students who have developed an advanced reading ability often continue to experience difficulty when they try to express themselves in writing. In this talk, I first discus oft-cited sources of students‘ writing difficulties, which typically involve difficulties at the linguistic (e.g., vocabulary, grammar and text structure) and cognitive levels (e.g., selecting relevant contents, connecting different parts of the writing). In the second part, I explore the relationship between reading and writing in detail, highlighting areas that need to be linked more tightly together. In the last part, I present an instructional model that can promote more efficient input processing and focused noticing of linguistic features found in the target text. The model also encourages student writers to engage in writerly reading and readerly writing to further strengthen their writing proficiency.
Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a frequent plenary speaker at ELT international conferences and has published extensively in the area of second language education. His publications include Language Teaching Methodology: An Anthology of Current Practice (2002, Cambridge University Press) and Student-Centred Cooperative Learning (2019, Springer International). He maintains a large teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachervoices/.
Website: Willy’s ELT Corner https://www.willyrenandya.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=gHW1fVIAAAAJ
Kevin Cleary Invited Speaker
Lyndell Nagashima
JALT Study Abroad SIG
Sponsored by JALT
Narrative Inquiry into the Student Sojourn Experience
Saturday, Nov 13, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Narrative Inquiry is a body of research that considers personal accounts, giving voice to those often invisible in academia. The presentation incorporates Japanese university students’ English language accounts. The purpose is to understand learners from a holistic perspective. Language learning is an individual journey of discovery and progressive skills. It is hoped this presentation will provide perspective, as an educator or a language learner yourself, on personal journeys represented in the Japanese classroom.
Lyndell Nagashima has been serving as the JALT Study Abroad SIG Coordinator for three years. She is originally from the Gold Coast, Australia but has called Japan home for 20 years, both in Tokyo and in Fukuoka, Kyushu. Teaching and working within inbound and outbound study abroad programs in central Tokyo lead to two Masters in Linguistics, and she has recently begun a PhD in Education at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
JALT2025 International Conference
2025年10月31日(金)〜2025年11月02日(日) 東京都渋谷 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 02, 2025 • National Olympics Youth Memorial Center, Tokyo, Japan
PanSIG Conference
PanSIG 2025 will be held May 16-18 in Chiba. PanSIG is an annual conference organized by JALT’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs).