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.

11 Oct 2009, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Helping university students raise their TOEIC scores Dr. Pals and Dr. Sheehan shared the online TOEIC vocabulary system they developed and are using at Shizuoka University of Arts & Science. In a "hands on" demonstration held at their university members got an inside look at the system and how it is incorporated into almost all English...
11 Oct 2009, 9:45am to 5:30pm The 4th Joint JALT Tokyo Conference: Successful language learners and what they can teach us 09:45-10.15 Registration 10:15-12:00 Sarah Louisa Birchley and Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuen University) Making molehills out of mountains: Realizing learner potential and creating opportunities This presentation will provide an overview of 'What the "Good Language Learner" can teach...
10 Oct 2009, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Language Awareness and Language Variety: Ways to Utilize Tacit Knowledge in Language Classrooms Kitakyushu I will propose that English education in Japan, at the elementary school level in particular, be conducted in a larger setting of “Language Awareness”. This notion includes the following: First, language is a unique symbolic system that allows novel utterances, recursion and so on. Second,...
04 Oct 2009, 2:00pm to 5:00pm October 4th All-day Meeting - Afternoon Program (Student Presentations) Ibaraki The following is the line up of five student presentations. a. Title: Chinese Psychological Counseling (English) This presenter is Sun Ming Lin (or you can call her Crystal). She is from Changchun in China. She majored in Social Psychology and also learned Business Administration....
04 Oct 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm There’s a book inside all of us The saying goes that “There’s a book inside all of us”, but how does one go about writing a persuasive publishing proposal for an EFL textbook? For some, the process seems so intimidating, confusing or demanding that they don’t even start. This workshop very briefly outlines the publishing...
04 Oct 2009, 9:30am to 11:50am October 4th All-day Meeting - Morning Program (An Inconvenience Truth about Interlanguage) Ibaraki As every English teacher in Japan knows, Japanese-influenced English, or “interlanguage”, can lead learners to produce sentences that are (a) unintentionally comical, (b) very different from the intended meaning, (c) completely incomprehensible, or (d) all of the above. This presentation will...
03 Oct 2009, 1:00pm to 2:30pm Practical Classroom Applications for Authentic Listening Materials East Shikoku Recent work on listening has attempted to shift the emphasis to alternative approaches which place more focus on the learner perspective, with instructional procedures focused on what goes on during the process of listening. We can then diagnose a specific area in need of more explicit teaching...
27 Sep 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Using Songs Effectively Oita Songs are frequently used in English Language Teaching classrooms all over the world and are a part of a multitude of young learner language programmes. This presentation aims to look at why songs can be considered valuable pedagogical tools. Then, using several classic and original songs for...
27 Sep 2009, 3:00pm to 5:00pm 2 Parts: "Learning English through e-Learning", followed by "How to Study Japanese" Hiroshima There will be two parts. During the first hour, Professor Taiji HOTTA of Hiroshima University will introduce an online English-learning system which he has developed, using authentic American college lecture videos. He will explain how teachers can adapt this system to their classes. ...
27 Sep 2009, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Using drama activities with diverse levels of university students Kyoto As teachers, we are always looking for ways to motivate and engage our learners, particularly at university level in Japan. One way to do this is through the use of drama and drama-related activities. Amanda Gillis-Furutaka and Sandra Healy will discuss practical ways in which to introduce...