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.

15 Mar 2009, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Gender Differences in Hearing Toyohashi There are verifiable physiological differences that prove that boys and girls hear and process sounds and language input differently. Should these gender differences in hearing require us to teach boys and girls differently, and should they affect our expectations regarding L2 language learning...
15 Mar 2009, 1:30pm to 3:30pm Rhythm and Rhyme and Harmony Hokuriku Music plays a special role in people's lives, partly because of the effect that it has on the mind and the body. We will learn about those effects, focusing on music's usefulness in the language classroom. We will be listening to various kinds of music and discussing the useful qualities of that...
14 Mar 2009, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Japanese Culture Presentations Kitakyushu Learn more about Japan from your students while stimulating meaningful communication in apparently fluent English. (Teacher tweaks the video with iMovie software.) This presentation will explain how first-year high school students are encouraged to plan, organize and present some coherent and...
14 Mar 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Intercultural team teaching: The good, the bad, and the beautiful! Nagano This interactive presentation will begin with a brief overview of some of the more widely-recognized theories and paradigms of intercultural communication. These will serve as a theoretical springboard to examine more prevalent and recurring intercultural workplace differences between Japanese...
14 Mar 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Recasting emotions in SLA: Insights from learning as a social transaction Akita What is the role and meaning of affect in second language acquisition (SLA)? Language practitioners have tackled this important question by exploring various affective factors, such as language anxiety, second language (L2) motivation, and the neurobiological mechanism. Nevertheless, serious...
08 Mar 2009, 2:15pm to 4:20pm Teaching English Conversation in an Aging Society Matsuyama An aging society means growing numbers of older individuals who want to learn English. This presents a variety of challenges that differ from the teaching of younger students. However, teaching strategies that take into account how older students learn and their motivations for studying English...
08 Mar 2009, 2:00pm to 4:45pm 1) On defining “good” language learners; 2) University listening classes: less product, more process Saitama On defining “good” language learners This workshop will examine the notion of “good” language learners (GLLs) in terms of learner characteristics from second language acquisition literature. GLLs in two different contexts will be discussed: traditional compulsory classrooms and private...
08 Mar 2009, 1:00pm to 5:00pm Teaching Children English Mini-conference Hiroshima If you teach children, then this mini-conference will be perfect for you! You will get lots of ideas from the innovative presentations as well as from the other teachers you will be sure to meet there. There will also be book displays and teaching materials for sale. Check http://jalt.org/events...
07 Mar 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Literature for the Language Class Fukuoka Most Japanese students (and many teachers of English as well) believe that poems, short stories, and plays have little or no place in classrooms oriented to developing communicative competence in English or that literary texts are only for advanced learners. In fact, Japanese students often say...
01 Mar 2009, 1:00pm to 5:00pm Shinshu JALT Workshop: Tips for Teaching Children Nagano Please join us for this exciting event with two wonderful children's book authors. In order to help us, we would like to ask that all interested persons please follow one of the links below to pre-register. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Japanese: http://www.eltkids.jp/info_j/...