In this session, Kay Takeda Irie will take a fresh look at classroom communication from the perspective of positive communication, a concept from the field of communication studies. It is a type of communication that enhances the well-being of those who participate. Together with the audience, we will explore how we can borrow ideas from a model of positive communication to facilitate our students’ well-being. Kay will draw on examples from a study on highly motivated advanced older learners to show the relevance of the ideas to language learning and teaching.
Presenter Bio: Kay Takeda Irie teaches in the English language program to support EMI at the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University, Tokyo. she also teaches at the Graduate College of Education at Temple University Japan. Her research interests include language learning psychology, learner autonomy, and research methods in these areas, including Q-methodology. She has been a JALT member for over 20 years. She was a plenary speaker at JALT 2020 and at the CUE SIG 25th Anniversary Conference in 2018. She also co-edited Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts (2012), a project that grew out of LD SIG get-togethers in Tokyo.
