Titles & Presenters- Teaching, Coaching and Activity Design, Joshua Pako; Tweeting as a way to enhance students' output experience in ESL writing, Yukiko Koizumi
Abstracts-
Teaching, Coaching, and Activity Design.
Students can spend up to 5 hours a week in an English classroom setting, whereas they can spend up to 10 hours a week participating in sport. The goal for teachers and coaches remains the same, but how can some of the principles of coaching or teaching be transferred to one another? This talk will focus on how sport-based coaching principles can be used in the classroom to improve areas such as classroom engagement, material, and resource adaptability andstrategies for language production. In addition, this talk will dive into some large-scale activities that utilize these principals in a language classroom setting.
Tweeting as a way to enhance students' output experience in ESL writing.
The pandemic has changed many aspects of our daily lives, and we as instructors were forced to quickly learn and put into practice remote/online instruction in class. In this presentation, I will share how my own teaching practices have changed in the Covid era. Specifically, I will talk about how using a social media platform like Twitter can make a "low-stakes" journal writing assignment in online teaching. Sharing some examples and comparing with the traditional in-person way of journal assignment, I will explain how Twitter may enhance the students' output experience in writing and can motivate them to keep writing further.
Bios: Joshua is currently working as a fully registered Japanese high school teacher in Yamagata. In addition to teaching English, he is also an assistant homeroom teacher and head basketball coach for the school. Having worked as an accredited High School Japanese language teacher in Australia and working 4 years in Yamagata as an ALT, he is constantly trying to improve the standards of language learning and is deeply interested in unlocking student potential in the classroom.
Dr. Yukiko Koizumi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University. She has experience living, studying and teaching in London and New York, where she pursued her graduate degrees. Her research interests are in linguistics, especially psycholinguistics and English education.
Please note the change in venue: Yamagata-shi Tobu Community Center (2 blocks north of YU Kojirakawa Campus) 2F 山形市東部公民館講堂
