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.

28 Feb 2009, 2:00pm to 4:00pm The Best of Tokyo: Presentations from the JALT2008 Conference For our second meeting of 2009, we are going to go back in time a bit to the PAC7/JALT 2008 Conference held this past November in Tokyo. Various local presenters - including Melodie Cook, Richard Hodson, Tim Allan, and Tomoko Maekawa - will share ideas, inspirations, materials and handouts from...
22 Feb 2009, 2:00pm to 5:00pm Student Projects Sendai Presenters (teachers) will explain projects they have done in class with students. Some actual students will also give presentations about the class projects they have participated in and give their impressions of the experience.
22 Feb 2009, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Legitimate participation in academic publishing—from the periphery to the core Nagano This interactive workshop will have two primary focuses. The first will be to encourage audience members to become legitimate participants in academic publishing by explaining different journal systems, including The Language Teacher, JALT's monthly member publication, the JALT Conference...
22 Feb 2009, 1:30pm to 4:30pm How do students learn to read English? Iwate-Aomori How do students learn to read English? Is learning to read a "natural" process? Is there a method of instruction that is more effective than others? English can be confusing for both those trying to teach it and those trying to learn it, but with a little background information and some simple...
22 Feb 2009, 10:00am to 4:30pm Meet, Ask, Share and Help – KYOTO MASH'09 Kyoto MASH originated in 2006 by MA TEFL students in the University of Birmingham distance MA program. MASH focuses on professional development through collaboration. We invite you to a full day of Poster sessions and 20-minute presentations – and a great way to meet new interesting people. ...
21 Feb 2009, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Creating Classroom Props for Language Learning Students learn more when they are interested and their curiosity is aroused. As language teachers, it can be difficult to create lessons that make language points challenging and engaging. However, teaching new vocabulary and language points can be enhanced using interesting tools such as magic...
21 Feb 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Two Presentations: Demotivators in Language Learning; and, Questionnaire Construction and Analysis with Rasch, Factor Analysis, and Structure Equation Modeling Fukuoka Two presentations will be given, one focused on more practical issues of how students are demotivated in language classrooms and one focused on research on how demotivators can be measured and analyzed. Demotivators in English Language Learning How can teachers help students to be...
20 Feb 2009, 9:50am to 6:00pm Third International Wireless Ready Symposium: Digital Technologies in Language Education There will be a Third International Wireless Ready Symposium examining the role of digital technologies and language education on 20th February 2009 in Nagoya. Wireless Ready is a simultaneous real and virtual world / Second Life event. Keynote speakers Dr Gary Motteram,...
15 Feb 2009, 3:00pm to 5:00pm "A Love of Language" 【概要/Description】　　　　 An Australian cartoonist drew a cartoon in which a man complains to a woman, "I really can't see the point of life". The woman replies, "It's not pointy. It's round and soft..." As language educators too, it's easy for us to get caught up in teaching English for...
15 Feb 2009, 2:00pm to 4:30pm Profiles in Motivation: Three Student Graduation Research Projects Gunma Three graduating seniors will present findings from their graduation research projects, bringing fresh perspectives on teacher and student motivation: What are the types of motivation and is there a relationship to students' TOEIC scores? How can learners maintain motivation after graduating...