IBARAKI: June— The brain’s many different memory processes: Applications to language teaching by Bruno Jactat. Teachers’ primary job in class is to help students learn new information and retain it in their memories so that they can use it in their own lives. More often than not, however, teachers are oblivious of actual ways…

Morning: IBARAKI: March— Teaching Writing: Why and how can we include grammar and culture (context)? by Nivedita Kumari. Arguing that writing is a good way to teach students grammar and academic English conventions, Kumari offered us a glimpse of her writing classroom at a university in Japan. Namely, she explained her three assignments (i.e.,…

Part 1: Morning presentation IBARAKI: March— Teaching Writing: Why and how can we include grammar and culture (context)? by Nivedita Kumari. Arguing that writing is a good way to teach students grammar and academic English conventions, Kumari offered us a glimpse of her writing classroom at a university in Japan. Namely, she explained her…

IBARAKI: December—Note-taking methods for academic and professional purposes by Jeroen Bode. According to Bode, note-taking is one of the important study skills, for it can help us identify important information, retain it, and use it later for reports and presentations. However, we are rarely taught of this skill, thus taking notes that are randomly…