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.

25 Apr 2010, 12:45pm to 5:00pm Back to School -- practical ideas to help start the year off right Osaka The theme of this event is practical hands-on activities, tips, & techniques that may be applicable to teachers of a wide range of levels, from elementary school, junior & senior high school, and university level. We intend to make this a time for diverse teachers to come...
24 Apr 2010, 4:00pm to 5:00pm Being Constructive with Moodle Okayama In this workshop, the audience will learn how to blend Moodle into their language classes. They will get hands-on experience in setting up a course and populating it with resources and activities. The presenter will emphasize those aspects of Moodle that facilitate collaborative learning. By the...
24 Apr 2010, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Basic statistics for applied linguistics Niigata In this session David will look at some of the fundamental statistics tests that are most commonly used in language teaching research. He will look into what the statistics do and do not tell us and work through examples of how to calculate the statistics with some sample data. If you bring a...
24 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Intensively Extensive: How my experience as an ESL learner has contributed to my teaching and writing Akita The speaker will present his personal story as a language learner and demonstrate the impact it has made on his classroom practice as well as on his material writing. He will suggest how all teachers can directly, immediately--and often surprisingly--benefit from a careful autobiographical...
18 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Classrooms are Alive with the Sound of Music Gunma In this workshop, participants explore how the use of music in the classroom creates a relaxed language learning environment that strengthens teaching and learning activities-- even lessons that focus on grammar and TOEIC test preparation. No musical talent is required for this workshop and...
18 Apr 2010, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Getting Back to Basics in English Language Teaching Kyoto In this presentation, veteran English instructor and author of seven books and several newspaper columns for Japanese learners of English, David Barker,argues for a renewed focus on 'old-fashioned' approaches that have served language teachers and learners well for centuries. "The history...
18 Apr 2010, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Practical Look at Research on Non-Native Speaker -- Non-Native Speaker Negotiation in Oral Communication Classes The aim of this presentation is to examine and discuss student negotiation feedback in university classes that have communication or improving speaking fluency as their main pedagogical goal. The presenter will discuss research from his classes and offer ideas to raise student and teacher...
18 Apr 2010, 12:00pm to 5:00pm Yokohama JALT Chapter Meeting: Classroom Cohesion The program for the April YoJalt meeting will be on Classroom Cohesion, with Steve Paydon and Yukari Saiki presenting. Further information and a map to the event can be found at www.yojalt.org
18 Apr 2010, 10:00am to 12:00pm Developing Personalized Portfolio Rubrics for the EFL Classroom Steve Quasha won the 'Best of JALT 2009' award for his presentation on 'Exploring Portfolio Assessment in the EFL classroom. He is also the JALT CUE Sig Coordinator and Gifu JALT Program Chair. In this workshop, the presenter will demonstrate how portfolio assessment plays an...
17 Apr 2010, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Words, Types and Patterns: Beginning Corpus Linguistics This presentation will introduce concordancing as a means of investigating language. Words will be analysed in terms of their typical behaviours and patterns. By applying this approach, words can be categorised into 'families' for a more organic and authentic description of language. ...