Past Events | NPO The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

Details of past JALT events from late 2008 onwards. For a listing of earlier events (2001-2008) please visit the events calendar archive.

17 Apr 2010, 4:00pm to 6:00pm Developing Personalized Portfolio Rubrics for the EFL Classroom Kobe In this workshop, the presenter will demonstrate how portfolio assessment plays an integral part in his communicative English courses at a Japanese women's university. Participants will experience tasks and activities that will enable them to successfully develop their own grading rubrics,...
17 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Jokes and cartoons in the EFL classroom. * 次回：2010年4月17日（土）14:00-16:00 * 場所：出島交流会館4F * 発表者：リチャード・ホドソン「長崎県立大学」 * 演題：「英語の授業でのジョークや漫画」 * 参加費：会員・学生—無料　非会員—Y1000. 「非会員が初めての人を連れてきた場合はそれぞれ500円でOK」 Can you tell a joke in English?How can learners be encouraged to experiment with humour, and what materials...
11 Apr 2010, 2:15pm to 4:20pm Writing and Publishing Language Learning Materials Matsuyama The process of getting my first TOEIC guide published was painfully long and frustrating. Everything changed after I finally found a publisher — more writing work, seminar jobs and an offer to start a publishing company followed. If you have original materials or a unique teaching method, my...
11 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 4:45pm i) Do you wish you had more Time and Energy? ii) Teaching Awareness and Use of Reading Strategies Saitama Do you wish you had more Time and Energy? Presented by Manfred Delano Cannegieter of Rikkyo University During this workshop, the presenter hopes to initiate an open dialogue regarding classroom management and time/energy saving strategies. Twelve minutes worth of movie clips...
11 Apr 2010, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Words, types, and patterns: beginning corpus linguistics This presentation will introduce concordancing as a means of investigating language. Words will be analyzed in terms of their typical behaviors and patterns. By applying this approach, words can be categorised into 'families' for a more organic and authentic description of language. The...
11 Apr 2010, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Developing Personalized Portfolio Rubrics for the EFL Classroom Toyohashi In this workshop, the presenter will demonstrate how portfolio assessment plays an integral part in his communicative English courses at a Japanese women's university. Participants will experience tasks and activities that will enable them to successfully develop their own grading rubrics,...
11 Apr 2010, 1:00pm to 7:00pm International Hanami at Osaka Castle Park Osaka Come join us for hanami (cherry blossom viewing party) along with DAJK (Democrats Abroad in Japan - Kansai) and several other international groups from the area. We plan to meet at 1 p.m. at the water fountain on the corner of the park just outside Morinomiya Station, accessible on either JR...
11 Apr 2010, 11:00am to 5:00pm Nara JALT HANAMI Nara Come one and all, dust off your shuttlecocks, and join us for good old family fun in Nara Park. Kick off at 11am -ish, BYO refreshments. We'll be in the park, about 10 mins walk from Nara Kintetsu Station, kitty corner to the lane leading to Toudaiji Temple. Not...
10 Apr 2010, 6:30pm to 8:00pm Implementing Differing SLA theories into Teaching Kitakyushu Based on his Masters study with Monash University, Matthew will start by outlining some of the key differing theories in SLA. As each of the SLA theories is introduced, it will be immediately followed up by a discussion on how it can be applied in a classroom, and difficulties that might be...
03 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 5:00pm Developing Lexical Competence: From Theory to Classroom Practice to Online Application Fukuoka This seminar will consider the development of Lexical Competence from several points of view. Through a review of some of the core research in second language vocabulary acquisition we will first try to dispel some of the "myths" about vocabulary learning that are still...