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.

12 Jun 2010, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Film screening & discussion: "Fusions of the Heart, Ishizue" East Shikoku New short documentary by Linda Ohama (36 min., filmed on location in Onomichi, Japan [Engl./Jpn.]). It is a story about one’s roots and branches and why it is important to develop and maintain one’s roots to understand one’s place in our world. Thirteen young Nikkei Canadian youth known as Chibi...
12 Jun 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Metaphor Elicitation as a Means of Investigating Learner Beliefs and Facilitating Reflection Akita As part of the research study for his master's thesis, Joseph Sykes explored the beliefs of English language learners by getting them to compose original metaphors. This not only articulated the students' conscious and subconscious thoughts, it also gave them a way to reflect on what it means...
12 Jun 2010, 1:00pm to 3:00pm Let’s Personalize it Oita The presenters will examine how to personalize classes for your students to help them to share their own ideas and everyday lives in their learning of English. They will introduce student scrapbooks and show how these can form the basis of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. In...
11 Jun 2010, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Dinner with Canadian author Joy Kogawa in Nagasaki We are very excited and honoured to have Canadian novelist, poet and critic Joy Kogawa visit us here in Nagasaki in June, and in particular, to have her as a guest at an informal dinner hosted by Nagasaki JALT on Friday, June 11, 7-9 PM. Ms Kogawa is probably most famous for "Obasan" (1981...
06 Jun 2010, 1:30pm to 3:30pm Considering the effective English teaching in the Japanese secondary school context Hokuriku In the presentation, Professor Rintaro Sato of the Nara University of Education discusses how English can effectively be taught in the Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) context. In this environment, learners do not often have an actual need for communication in English. It is rare for...
30 May 2010, 2:00pm to 5:00pm ELT Publishing and You Sendai Steve King, Market Research Manager for Pearson Education in Asia, will present on "Publishing: Past, present and future." John Wiltshier (Miyagi Gakuin University), co-author of the new edition of the English Firsthand series, will present on "My learning curve"—a look at his journey into the...
30 May 2010, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Understanding Students’ Non-Verbal Behavior: What does that silence mean, anyway? Iwate-Aomori The feedback that teachers give to students in second and foreign language classroom oral interaction has been studied in various ways by such researchers as Fanselow (1977), Chaudron (1977, 1986, 1987) and Long (1977). Far less attention has been paid, however, to both the feedback...
30 May 2010, 12:30pm to 5:00pm Creativity in the Classroom (four presentations) Ibaraki Program starts at 1:00. (Doors open from 12:30. No pre-registration required!) Presentations: 1. The Effects of Speaking Activity Attitudes on Willingness to Communicate and Classroom Speaking Anxiety by Tomoka Kaneko, Ibaraki University This study investigates the...
30 May 2010, 8:15am to 2:00pm The 21st Suwako Charity Walk Nagano Participants choose to walk clockwise or counter clockwise halfway around the lake (8-8.5 km) with Shinshu University researchers. After having lunch at Kamaguchi Suimon in Okaya at 11:30, a forum starts at 12:00 which includes a short talk and quiz about the lake’s environment and a musical...
29 May 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Understanding Students' Non-Verbal Behavior: What Does Silence Mean Anyway? Akita Little classroom research exists on the feedback that students give to language teachers from moment to moment during the course of a lesson, and how teachers respond to such feedback in planning the next steps in their lesson in real-time. Participants in this workshop will have the...