Okinawa JALT
March 1, 2025 (Saturday) 18:00~19:30
Okinawa Prefecture Gender Equality Center (Tiruru)
Presenting Off-Script: Socio-Emotional and Embodied Cognitive Scaffolding
Joseph Falout (Nihon University)
Students entering undergraduate and graduate programs have difficulty presenting advanced
ideas in English without following premade scripts. They can struggle speaking off-script during
formal presentations at any length, brief question and answer follow-ups, or informal small-
group discussions. This workshop introduces five pedagogical features that you can incorporate
into your lessons—no matter what ages or levels you are teaching—to foster student abilities to
speak smoothly off-script. These five features are: (1) Teamwork strategies, (2) Improvisation
practice, (3) Paralinguistics focus, (4) Open templates, and (5) Coaching as a process.
Experience something fresh and useful to bring back to your students.
Bio
Joseph Falout, an associate professor at Nihon University, received multiple
awards from his school for teaching contributions and from JALT for his
research. He authored or co-authored 60-plus academic works on psychology
in language learning, notably on: (1) demotivation-to-remotivation processes,
(2) classroom group dynamics with Ideal Classmates Priming, and (3) teaching
and researching with Critical Participatory Looping.
