Annual Conference

Date/Time: Sunday, Sep. 26, 2021 13:30— 17:00

Place: Online via Zoom (Pre-registration required)

Register at https://tinyurl.com/TILES2021
Presentations:

Student reaction to teachers use of L1 in the ESL/EFL classroom
Chris Horne

Creating a rubric to standardize the measuring the English-speaking conversation and interaction skills of examinees
Natsumi Onaka, Daniel Newbury, and Jacob Petersen

Tolerance of Ambiguity and Culturally Familiar Materials? A Practical Workshop on Local Literature in Translation
Joshua Lee Solomon and Megumi Tada

The Study Abroad SIG Conference seeks to gather researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in presenting and learning about study abroad instruction, research, and student experiences abroad. The objective of this conference is to promote the research of study abroad and give an opportunity for participants to network among like-minded individuals.
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The theme this year is "Study Abroad at Home." Professor Keiko Ikeda from Kansai University is our keynote speaker and she will be giving a plenary on "Language learning Focused COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as a New Gateway for Inclusive International Education." As the spread of COVID-19 has made it difficult for learners to study overseas, we would like to discuss further possibilities of study abroad and international exchanges under this ongoing pandemic.
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The Study Abroad SIG Conference is open to JALT and non-JALT members alike.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
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海外留学SIG Conferenceは、海外留学の実践・研究、学生の海外留学経験に興味を持つ研究者、教師、学生の発表および学びの場を提供することを目指しています。本Conferenceを通して、海外留学の研究を促進し、同じ興味・関心を持つ者同士のネットワークの場を創出します。
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今年度のテーマは「内なる海外留学」です。関西大学の池田佳子教授を基調講演者としてお招きし、「インクルーシブな国際教育のゲートウェイとしてのCOIL:　LLC（言語学習を目的としたCOIL）にフォーカスをあてて」と題してお話しいただきます。新型コロナウィルスの感染拡大で学生たちが海外へ渡航することが難しい状況で、私たちに今できる海外留学/国際交流の可能性について考えたいと思います。
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JALTの会員・非会員に関わらず、どなたでも参加することができます。
みなさまのご参加、お待ちしております！

1. 1:15-2:15 Opening Keynote Speaker: Yitzha Sarwono
“Teaching kindergarten in the age of the pandemic”

2. 2:30-4:00 Multiple Teaching Younger Learners Presentations

3. 4:15-5:15 Closing Keynote Speaker: Ms. Cheryl Chia
“Raising Mentally Strong Children"

The NEAR Conference is back and will be 100% online. In conjunction with The Young Learners SIG, this year's conference looks forward to presentations by educators from various teaching contexts.

We are happy to announce that the call for proposals for Teacher Journeys 2021is now open! The deadline for submissions is 8/15.

Over the past ten years, the Teacher Journeys conference has traveled around Japan to highlight teacher narratives. This year, following the model of Teacher Journeys 2020, in place of a face-to-face conference the Teacher Development SIG will curate a collection of videos sharing reflections on teaching in these new circumstances.

These videos will be shared on the conference site from late summer to early fall. We would also like to include a written version of all accepted presentations in a special issue of the TD SIG's journal Explorations in Teacher Development, to appear in 2022.

The theme of the conference is Intercultural Communication in Language Education and its purpose is to promote the core values of the ICLE SIG: exchange ideas and share best practices for incorporating culture in various settings, thereby, bringing practice and research together. Presenters will share diverse methods, approaches and experiences related to intercultural communication ranging from practical and pedagogical activities to research oriented presentations focusing on raising intercultural awareness and enhancing cultural understanding.

2021 JALT School Owners’ Conference—June 27th, 10:00-17:00

The JALT School Owners’ Special Interest Group would like to invite everyone to attend our 2021 Conference, online. If you are a school owner or thinking of opening a school, then you don’t want to miss this online conference.

We will have six insightful sessions starting from 10:00 on June27th.
Session 1: Lessons from the Pandemic
Session 2: What is Lean Management?
Lunch: Community chatroom
Session 3: How to make better classrooms for the community
Session 4: How to spot and help Neurodiverse students
Session 5: Why and how to transition an eikaiwa to an
international preschool
Session 6: Panel discussion
JALT School Owners’ Annual General Meeting. –Everyone is welcome!

The sessions will be recorded and made available to everyone that registers for the event.

Cost:
SO SIG member: *FREE
JALT member: *¥2,500
Other: ¥3,500
*Sign-up after 6/24 will be ¥3,500

To learn more and sign-up, go to: https://2021somc.eventzil.la/
If you have any questions, contact us at: SO@jalt.org

We have a small number of scholarships available for anyone struggling to pay the admission price. To receive a scholarship, contact us at so@jalt.org and we will make sure you are able to attend.

We look forward to seeing everyone live on June 27th!

We will hold our 12th All-Shikoku JALT Conference online this year using Zoom. The Conference will be co-sponsored by East Shikoku JALT, Matsuyama JALT and Oxford University Press. David Barker, Director of the Gifu University English Center. will to be our keynote speaker, and our OUP featured speaker will be Scott Douglas from UBC's Okanagan School of Education in Canada. Concurrent sessions of 30-minute presentations/short papers (20 minutes + 10 min Q&A) will follow the Keynote and OUP presentations. The full slate of presentations can be found in our Conference Program. Pre-register at the link below. Prior to the Conference, a Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registered. Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00-15:30 (time may change slightly for scheduling purposes) Online (Zoom, registration details to be found on the program)

Free for JALT Members; 1,000 yen for non-members

Registration link: 12th Shikoku JALT Conference https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTv9M6JQQgKkwO_kCW8nZhb2mxv0JI...

For more details, check out the program:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lH9taApdqupw96CSIlliNdvXK8kbm4vI/view

This year, in the interest of better serving our geographically diverse LLL-SIG membership (and also in the interest of keeping you safe) we decided to hold our annual LLL-SIG Mini-Conference online. It will take place online for LLL-SIG members although the event itself is hybrid as it overlaps with part of annual faculty development sessions at Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU). AGU teachers will be joining either F2F or online and LLL-SIG members can participate online. 

Details:

Event name: JALT’s Lifelong Language Learning (LLL) SIG Mini Conference 2021: Lifelong Learning Through an Annual Faculty Development Event

Date: April 3, 2021

Time: From 10 AM - 12:15 PM

Place: Through Zoom (Contact Joseph Dias at giuseppedias@gmail.com to request an invitation to join on Zoom. The Zoom room details will be sent on the evening of April 2nd. Please be sure to set your profile on Zoom so that you can be identified by name as only those participants whose identity we can confirm will be allowed entrance.)

See the attached PDF for full details of the program, including the titles of presentations and bios of the 8 speakers. 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Joseph Dias

LLL SIG Coordinator & Aoyama Gakuin University (English Department's) Integrated English Program Co-coordinator

Further Details
For the last 28 years, the Integrated English Program (under the auspices of Aoyama Gakuin University’s English Department) has held annual faculty development events for new and continuing teachers in early April. The program’s coordinators, senior teachers, and those newer to the program, share the responsibility of presenting on panels and giving workshops. It has been a way for teachers to share their expertise while gaining knowledge and inspiration from their peers. Occasionally, special guests—from both inside and outside the university—are invited to the event as speakers to offer broader perspectives. These guest speakers have included representatives from TELL (an English Lifeline and community outreach organization), the campus’ Career Center, and the Student Counseling Center. One of the main benefits of this event is the collegiality it fosters. By sharing teaching experiences, stories from the classrooms’ front lines, and refreshments, teachers are revitalized so they can face the new academic year with a positive frame of mind.

We decided to offer a glimpse into this annual event by opening up three of this year’s panel discussions to participants in the Lifelong Language Learning SIG’s Mini Conference. In other words, the Mini Conference will co-occur with the morning portion of the faculty development event, three panel discussions made up of eight speakers.