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.

24 Jan 2010, 1:00pm to 3:00pm East Shikoku JALT event on technologies in education East Shikoku Event Description This event will feature a number of educational technology professionals from the Shikoku region and will include both hands-on workshops and digital poster sessions. Tech Workshops The workshops will include topics such as eLearning systems, mobile learning...
23 Jan 2010, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Stirring the Senses: Reflective Portfolios and Online Assessments by Suzanne Bonn Miyake, Nanzan University In this workshop, participants will learn how portfolios allow for reflection on learning and provide an alternative to standard methods of evaluation. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the reflective portfolio by going through each step of the portfolio process in hopes of...
17 Jan 2010, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Extensive Reading, Public Speaking, TOEIC, & More Hiroshima Speakers from two major ELT publishers will visit Hiroshima JALT. Both John Letcher and Marcos Benevides are known to be exciting speakers, and the presentations will be FREE to all! First, Mr. Letcher will speak about "Three Answers to Three Questions": 1) Have you got anything for...
17 Jan 2010, 1:30pm to 4:30pm PART 1: Teaching the Strategies of Speaking:helping students with fluency, involvement, and clarification strategies. PART II: Teaching Listening to Low-level Learners PART 1: All of us use strategies when we speak. We use strategies to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing. We use strategies to show interest, to maintain and develop conversations. We use strategies that help with fluency. Learners of English in particular use...
17 Jan 2010, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Teaching strategies of speaking We thank Abax publishing for sponsoring this event. For more details on this event and a lot more information on other Hamamatsu chapter activities, plus information on all Chubu area JALT chapter activities, please visit our newly resorted website.www.hamajalt.org
17 Jan 2010, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Apple Day: Using iPods/iPhones in the ELT classroom + workshops Kyoto This event is for veteran techies and newbies alike! Matthew Walsh of Momoyama Gakuin High School and Craig Hagerman of Osaka Jogakuin University will lead a cutting-edge session on using Ipods and Iphones in your ELT classroom. Learn the basics, discover ELT related applications, and...
17 Jan 2010, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Power Teaching and Intercultural Activities for Young Learners Toyohashi Using whole brain teaching techniques, learn how to craft a lesson from start to finish that will engage your students with movement, music, interactive reading, drama and MORE! The second half of the presentation showcases how to make a cultural exchange accessible to young students. See how...
16 Jan 2010, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Two Presentations: 1) How to Write for JALT Publications, 2) Open Career Doors to EFL Teaching Positions in Colleges and Universities in Japan Fukuoka Presentation 1: JALT offers a wide variety of opportunities for educators to publish and present in their fields of interest. However, submitting a proposal or manuscript is just the start of a long process, and, if not done properly, can lead to rejection from the outset. In this presentation,...
16 Jan 2010, 6:00pm to 8:30pm Teaching the Strategies of Speaking & Teaching Listening to Low-level Learners Osaka Alastair Graham-Marr, teaches full-time at Tokai University's Shonan campus and is author of Communication Spotlight, published by ABAX. He'll make two presentations: 1. Teaching the Strategies of Speaking: helping students with fluency, involvement and clarification strategies All...
16 Jan 2010, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Task-based learning in a themed context Okayama Task-based language teaching (TBLT) represents the evolution of communicative language teaching into a more structured performance-based approach. Gone is the day when anything-goes "free conversation" passed for language teaching; instead, TBLT's emphasis on achieving clear, quantifiable,...