This year's conference features a topical and interesting plenary session from Diane Hawley Nagtomo. Diane is going to be speaking on "Language Learning in the 21st Century: Merging the Competing Ideologies of Eigo and Eikaiwa."
Along with Diane's plenary, the conference features presentations from more than 30 other teacher / researchers from Japan, Korea, the US, and Thailand. This year's topics include:
- History as Content and Language Integrated Learning
- Academic lecture preparation
- Linguistic orientation and learnability of languages
- Learner multiple intelligences in an ESP classroom
- 香港の高等教育機関における韓国語教育
- Metaphors and language teaching
And many many more.
NEAR is always the biggest event on the JALT Niigata calendar so we are hoping to see all our local members at the conference.
