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.

29 Mar 2010, 7:00pm to 8:30pm Talking Emotion in a Second Language Tokyo Abstract: As a topic in second language studies, emotions have been investigated from a variety of perspectives: as "individual difference" variables, as goal and process in language socialization, as matters of multilingual speakers' competencies, or as experiences...
28 Mar 2010, 2:00pm to 5:00pm Pictures in the EFL Classroom Sendai Charles Adamson - The Socratic Method Pictures can be a wonderful stimulus for creating comprehensible output. Charles will first discuss some of the reasons for having a class that consists almost entirely of pairs of students talking in their own English with no correction. Then, He will...
28 Mar 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm In and Beyond Your Classroom Hokkaido Ideas to help your students and self learn quickly. A look at cost-effective and appropriate ways to use software and technology.  Glen Charles Rowell is an Australian Humanitarian who came to Japan in January, 2001. He also is the Coordinator of ETJ-Hokkaido, a teacher at Little Tree...
28 Mar 2010, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Presentation Title: Communication Breakdowns and Repair Toyohashi This presentation will focus on a study where the researchers investigated the cause of communication breakdowns during conversations between Japanese and native speakers of English, and the means of repair initiated. It was hypothesized that the majority of breakdowns would occur due to...
28 Mar 2010, 10:00am to 5:00pm Teaching Children English Mini-Conference Hiroshima If you teach children, then this mini-conference will be perfect for you! You will get lots of ideas from the innovative presentations as well as from the other teachers you will be sure to meet there. There will also be book displays and teaching materials for sale. Check http://jalt.org/events...
27 Mar 2010, 4:00pm to 6:00pm Raising Discourse Awareness Kobe Much English language teaching focuses on grammar at the level of the sentence, and many students have little awareness of how to use language at the level of discourse. This workshop will examine some common vocabulary and grammar points from the point of view of discourse. The presenter...
27 Mar 2010, 2:30pm to 5:30pm Troubleshooting & My Share Kyoto This event is open to all teachers, from experienced to newbie! It is an excellent opportunity for instructors to get some advice or offer suggestions on language teaching and learning. We have put together four excellent teachers who will share with you some of their experiences (see details...
27 Mar 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm What Language Should We Be Using In Our Classrooms? Akita With the growing English education fever in Japan in mind, it is high time to consider what would be the ideal in-classroom-language for teachers to use in daily English lessons. There is a debate about whether native English-speaking teachers (NEST) or non-native English-speaking teachers (NNET...
20 Mar 2010, 5:45pm to 7:00pm English teaching in the Japanese EFL Environment. How Efficacious? Nara Bio Rintaro Sato Rintaro Sato is an associate professor in the Department of English Education at Nara University of Education. His research interests include intake and output processing, feedback and negotiation of meaning. Before he came to Nara , he taught English in public high...
14 Mar 2010, 2:15pm to 4:20pm Using a Social Networking System for Enhancing Writing in the EFL Classroom Matsuyama The Internet has long been recognized as a valuable aid in language study, but its use for practicing speaking and writing in EFL classrooms has been limited. This talk focuses on adopting the Internet as a tool for enhancing writing activities. Maintaining the most desirable environment for...