Back to School 2022 is Osaka JALT’s 12th annual spring conference aiming to share ideas on a wide range of topics related to language teaching and learning to help everyone in the new academic year. This year's conference will again be online, which, as in the past two years, has the benefit of allowing us to welcome presenters and participants from all around the world. To get a sense of what to expect, and to see some of what you might have missed last year, please see the schedule and some of the recorded sessions from last year's conference and the presenters' bios and abstracts.
Registration is now open! Please register to have the Zoom link sent to you. This is a FREE event, though donations are welcome. Please join us for any part or all of what is sure to be another very fruitful day and evening of learning, sharing, and networking!
The block schedule and presenter information are now posted on our chapter website. Here are this year's presentations:
Mehrasa Alizadeh -- Professional development and distance learning with Gather.Town: A preliminary report
Zoe Barber -- (Un)willing to communicate?: Incorporating different modes of participation in the classroom
Thomas (TJ) Boutorwick -- ESL Speed Readings, the free mobile app
John Carle -- How to create a digital workbook
Eucharia Donnery -- The International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Project: Meeting low-level EFL learner needs
Paul Goldberg -- Xreading: What’s new and what’s next
Michael Herke -- From the known to the new: Everyday creative arguments for language learning
Elizabeth Leigh -- A tour of the “Zero-waste” town of Kamikatsu, Tokushima prefecture
Eric Martin & Robert Kerrigan -- Presentation and evaluation of an Extensive Listening program using Xreading
Paul Mathieson & Claire Murray -- The AWL Readers: An Academic Vocabulary Story
Wade Muncil -- Starting a startup from the start
Paschal Orjika -- Self-directed learning in the university classroom
Terry Tuttle -- A how-to video activity sequence for Japanese high school EFL students
Anthony Walsh -- A step-by-step guide for speech contests
Matthew Wiegand -- Re-evaluating expectations of camera use in online language classes
Jennifer Yphantides -- A grassroots effort to help Ukrainian refugees learn English
Lori Zenuk-Nishide -- Model United Nations: Building English as a lingual franca and 21st century learning skills
