This is an archive of the old (pre-2025) JALT website.
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Details of past JALT events from late 2008 onwards. For a listing of earlier events (2001-2008) please visit the events calendar archive.
15Sep2024, 1:00pm to 4:00pm Unlocking Learning Potential: A Universal Design for Learning Approach for Inclusive EducationYokohama Let's kick off the second semester with YoJALT!! YoJALT presents Heather McCulloch: "Unlocking Learning Potential: A Universal Design for Learning Approach for Inclusive Education" "In today's diverse educational landscape, English instructors are increasingly challenged to provide... |
24, 21, 09, 21, 15Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Sep2024, 2024, 2024, 2024, 2024, 12:00am to 11:55pm, 12:00am to 11:55pm, 12:00am to 11:55pm, 12:00am to 11:55pm, 12:00am to 11:55pm Online Get-together : 14:30-17:00Learner Development All members are welcome to share and discuss their learning, teaching, and researching practices and interests with learner development in pairs and small groups. Each get-together typically starts with a catching-up session where members get to reconnect and share the puzzles or research they... |
14Sep2024, 6:00pm Two Presentations: (1) Positive L2 Self System (Matthew Apple); (2) Insights gained from Educational Psychology (Keita Kikuchi)Fukuoka Validating the Positive L2 Self System: Focus on "Plus" and not "Minus"
Dr. Matthew Apple (Ritsumeikan University) Until recently, educational research in Japan, particularly that of second language acquisition (SLA) research, has tended to focus on the negative aspects of the learning... |
08Sep2024, 1:00pm Multimodality and Multiliteracies in Language Teaching and Learning – 8 September, 2024 @13:00 via Google MeetKyoto All meaning is multimodal and so our students must be multiliterate, but how do multimodality and multiliteracies fit in our teaching? Join the discussion for necessary background and examinations of contemporary teaching from around East Asia at this free online event. Date:... |
27Aug2024, 8:00pm ZPD in AugustJALT Central Our next ZPD will be on Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 from 8 PM - 9 PM Japan Time. We'll break up into small groups to discuss a variety of topics. As usual, we will also have an orientation for new officers and new members, tips and best practices in teaching, getting published,... |
25Aug2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm PresentERs - Chris Fry: A View of ER from EuropeExtensive Reading We will have a short talk about Extensive Reading from Chris Fry on Sunday 25 August 19:00-20:00. The event will involve a short 20-30 minute casual talk from our PresentER, followed by around 20-30 minutes of questions and discussion. PresentERs takes place on the last Sunday of each month... |
23Aug2024, 12:00am to 11:55pm 2nd Annual PIE-on-Lake-Nojiri ConferencePerformance in Education JALT PIE SIG, in collaboration and cooperation with various JALT groups, are proud to sponsor this conference. The theme of the conference is “Training Our Future: Teaching Younger Learners (0-18 Years Old).” The primary focus of this conference will be on the teaching of performance activities... |
04Aug2024, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Using group-based ranking to tackle the problems of performance test assessmentGunma Grading performance tests in large classes can be a daunting task, especially when the assessments involve subjective grading assignments such as essays, projects, or oral presentations. The problems that arise can be divided into two categories: those of objectivity and those of time. ... |
03Aug2024, 10:00am to 5:00pm Extensive Reading Summer SeminarExtensive Reading Mark your calendars! On Saturday, August 3, the ER SIG will sponsor a 1-day online event featuring a plenary speaker as well as short presentations by a variety of speakers from around the ER community. We hope you will join us for this special day of ER presentations! ... |
03Aug2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm Critical Thinking in the Classroom 2024 (CTC 2024)Critical Thinking The JALT Critical Thinking SIG, in association with the JALT Tokyo Chapter and Ludic Language Pedagogy, is hosting Critical Thinking in the Classroom 2024 (CTC 2024), a conference to be held on August 3rd, 2024, from 9:00 to 16:00 in the Learning Square on the Izumi Campus of Meiji University... |