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.

20 Nov 2009, 1:00pm to 5:00pm JALT2009: The Teaching-Learning Dialogue: An Active Mirror Our annual international conference. Friday, 20 November is a preparation day. There will be Technology and Teaching Workshops aimed at helping teachers develop their computer related skills in the afternoon, some workshops sponsored by JALT's Associate Members and international affiliates in...
20 Nov 2009, 9:00am to 6:00pm JALT 2009 JALT Central JALT2009 35th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Expo The Teaching-Learning Dialogue: An Active Mirror 20 – 23 November, 2009: Granship, Shizuoka, Japan Conference Theme JALT's annual conference will be...
19 Nov 2009, 4:20pm to 5:50pm Functional Literacy and Contextual Learning Theories Applied to English Language Learning Kitakyushu Dr. Mella-Alcazar, who speaks six languages, will explain how the Philippines achieved its high level of English through the application of two theories of learning: the functional literacy theory and the contextual learning theory. She will use her own experience of learning Japanese to...
18 Nov 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Functional literacy and contextual learning theories applied to English language learning. For our ninth meeting of the year, we are very pleased to welcome April Alcazar, our special guest presenter. She is the Teachers Helping Teachers co-ordinator in The Philippines, and is Adjunct Professor at the Asian Institute of Management. For more information on her topic, please see our...
16 Nov 2009, 6:30pm to 8:00pm Teachers Helping Teachers in the Philippines, and Related Topics Hiroshima Dr. Alcazar, who will be a featured speaker at the JALT National Conference this year, will give a special talk in Hiroshima about 3 topics related to the English education in the Philippines and in Japan: The Teachers Helping Teachers program, The Asian Youth Forum, and Contextual Learning...
15 Nov 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm The functional literacy theory and the contextual learning theory as applied to English language learning Okayama The presenter, the 2009 Balsamo Asian Scholar, will kick off her participation in the Four Corners Tour by discussing these theories with regard to her own language learning (English and Japanese) as well as her work advocating for better English language teaching in her native Philippines....
14 Nov 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Tender Teachers - How BOEs now "procure" teachers by tender bid Fukuoka The Ministry of Education appears to be putting more emphasis on communicative English in primary and secondary schools. To meet this demand the number of Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) taking up positions at public schools has dramatically increased over the past decade. However, due to...
14 Nov 2009, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Teaching for the TOEIC Kitakyushu In this TOEIC themed meeting, two teachers will introduce two different approaches they have used to teach “for the TOEIC test”. Kimiko Murata will talk about how she has successfully helped students to improve their TOEIC scores through helping them become more exam-wise. Kristen Sullivan will...
14 Nov 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm The Insight Playshop (TM) Approach to Learning East Shikoku Intuitively, most people appreciate the close kinship that play and learning share. The process of play can lead to deep insights about everyday life, culture, language, values, relationships, nature, physics, metaphysics and so on. Fun-filled learning experiences lead to the enrichment and...
08 Nov 2009, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Seigakuin Radio Podcast Gunma David Gann and Mehran Sabet will present on how they produced a podcast from their university. Their talk will detail how they first conceptualized the podcast; on what basis they drafted the material; how they produced the program; how they followed up later in class to assess learner...