This is an archive of the old (pre-2025) JALT website.
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Event Report - Ibaraki Chapter October meetingNovember 2, 2021 IbarakiAn Ecological Jungle of Learning: Partnering Students with Invitations to Teach, Reach, & Publish by Tim Murphey Listening to Murphey, we participants soon realized that we needed to adopt a different approach to our pedagogical practice. Students are not whom we teach but our active... |
Event Report, Ibaraki Chapter, October 2021November 1, 2021 IbarakiIBARAKI: October -- An Ecological Jungle of Learning: Partnering Students with Invitations to Teach, Reach, & Publish by Tim Murphey. Listening to Murphey, we participants soon realized that we needed to adopt a different approach to our pedagogical practice. Students are not whom we... |
Classroom EngagementOctober 9, 2021 Naganohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OTpK2NmjJU What is Classroom Engagement? As an educator, are YOU engaging your students? These are just a taste of the challenging questions presented to us on September 25th by Namiko Tsuruta, the Program Director of Global Language Institute and... |
Event Report, Tottori Chapter July 2021September 6, 2021 TottoriJALT Tottori chapter held an online event on 19th July and welcomed Toddo Beuchens, a current teacher of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and a founder of authentic free online website such as elllo.org as a speaker. Presentation title was ‘Create Fun Listening Lessons with Free Apps’. This... |
Event Report, Ibaraki Chapter, July 2021August 3, 2021 IbarakiIBARAKI/GUNMA: July, 2021—Teaching Trends in Dhaka City: A Comparative Study of Public Schools, Private Schools, and Madrasahs by Mashraky Mustary. In this presentation, Mustary presented the educational system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, referring to the difference of quality seen between public... |
Event Report, Nagano Chapter July 2021July 23, 2021 Naganohttps://youtu.be/cscbf01CQzs On July 10th, Nagano JALT had the unique opportunity to host an event with Dr. Jana Moore from Parkside Cambridge International in Virginia, USA. Dr. Moore’s presentation focused on the growing number of special needs students, and determining the specific... |
Event report Ibaraki Chapter March 27, 2021March 29, 2021 IbarakiIBARAKI: March As the new school year is fast approaching, we gathered online and listened to the following two inspiring presentations. Improving Student Confidence and Language Output Using a TBLT Textbook by Jenny Numadate. In this presentation, Numadate shared her experience of using a... |
Event Report, Nagano Chapter February 2021February 27, 2021 Naganohttps://youtu.be/s_6XgZZt0aU On February 17th, Nagano JALT hosted Linfeng Wang as she gave a presentation an exciting new government initiate for career development for ALTs. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) realizes the importance of having... |
Event Report, Nagano Chapter February 2021February 7, 2021 NaganoOn February the 5th, Nagano JALT was very fortunate to host Dr. Yoshiaki Ehara. The topic of his presentation was “Grammar Using Strategies to Promote Oral Fluency”. Ehara began his presentation with a short history of his education background and his work. The focus of his presentation however... |
Event Report, Ibaraki Chapter September 2020September 24, 2020 IbarakiIBARAKI: September — Motivating English learners through the Voluntary Reading of English Picture Books to Children – The Influence upon University Student Volunteer Readers by Rika Otsu. Otsu presented the project in the aspects of background, methods, results, showing videos of the volunteer... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter June 2020June 6, 2020 NanKyuThis was the seventh online reading event supported by KumaReads, a growing community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About two dozen joined via Zoom to listen to Branden Kirchmeyer talk about using questions to facilitate text engagement with children, and read Where's Spot? by... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter May 2020June 6, 2020 NanKyuThis was the sixth online reading event supported by KumaReads, a community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About two dozen participants young and old joined via Zoom to listen to Joe Tomei (Kumamoto Gakuen University) read The very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter April 2020June 6, 2020 NanKyuThis was the fifth online reading event supported by KumaReads, a growing community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About two dozen participants young and old joined via Zoom to listen to Branden Kirchmeyer read BIG Little by Leslie Patricelli. The event received positive feedback... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter June 2020June 6, 2020 NanKyuThis was the eighth online reading event supported by KumaReads, a growing community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. With schools around the country having opened up recently, only one participant was able to join via Zoom to listen to Branden Kirchmeyer talk about graded readers... |
Event Report, Nara Chapter April 2020May 7, 2020 NaraAvailable online at: https://youtu.be/iRXzUKjB6Uc |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter April 2020May 5, 2020 NanKyuA small and dedicated group connected via Zoom, including one person outside of Kumamoto who was interested in digital learning research with Japanese students of English at the ES level. Huy started with a quick basics of creating a meeting on Zoom, in particular how to navigate the interface... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter April 2020April 28, 2020 NanKyuThis was the fourth online reading event supported by KumaReads, a growing community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About two dozen participants young and old joined via Zoom to listen to Rob Hirschel read Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The event received positive... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter April 2020April 28, 2020 NanKyuThis was the third online reading event supported by KumaReads, a growing community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. Over a dozen participants young and old joined via Zoom to listen to Branden Kirchmeyer read Am I Small? by Philipp Winterberg and Nadja Wichmann. The event... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter April 2020April 9, 2020 NanKyuThis was the second online reading event supported by KumaReads, a community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About a dozen participants young and old (students of an existing online English class) joined via Zoom to listen to the reading of Invisible Alligators by Joe Tomei. This... |
Event Report, Nankyu Chapter March 2020April 1, 2020 NanKyuThis was the first online reading event supported by KumaReads, a community organization of extensive readers in Kumamoto. About a dozen participants young and old (students of an existing online English class) joined via Zoom to listen to the reading of I, Crocodile by Joe Tomei. The purpose of... |