Okayama
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Okayama JALT June:
Where East Meets West, South & North – Virtual Exchange: Changing How Foreign Languages are Taught Presented by Eric Hagley, APVEA & Griffith University This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Virtual Exchange (VE), examining synchronous and asynchronous frameworks alongside institutional benefits and challenges. Practical applications for language learning are highlighted through the International…
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Tracking Learner Engagement
with Bradford Lee, Fukui University of Technology (online) Learner engagement is a major predictor of success in L2 acquisition. It is therefore important to be able to measure engagement over time. However, current research on L2 engagement has a number of shortcomings: 1) much is carried out in controlled research settings; 2) scaling is…
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Okayama JALT: Teaching Exchange and Symposium 2026
Everyone is invited to share their teaching activities, lessons, or philosophies with us all at our March meeting. As opposed to one speaker at a time presenting at the front of the room, we will have several concurrent mini-presentations (similar to a poster presentation session). Bring handouts (or links to handouts), to help spread…
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Okayama JALT: โSomeone Forgot to Muteโ: Humor in the Online Medium and Its Contribution to Language Learning
by Scott Gardner and Teresa Stockwell This presentation reviews several recorded Zoom classes (with students’ permission) to see how students and teachers occasionally dealt with humor in direct reference to the online medium. Often the humor was accidental, sometimes intentional. We then speculate how these humorous episodes may have workedโor not, in some casesโto…