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.

05 Dec 2008, 7:00pm to 9:00pm End-of-the-Year Party Hiroshima There will be a bonenkai at a quaint Italian restaurant called Dish in Sakai-machi near the Dobashi streetcar stop. We hope to see you there! Contact Lauer for details at 0824-24-6353. RSVP by Monday, December 1st.
30 Nov 2008, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Turning a Popular Authentic Text into a Language Course Hiroshima It will be shown how a text such as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone can be used as the basis for a language course covering all 4 skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. The presentation will be followed by a workshop on developing such materials.
30 Nov 2008, 2:00pm to 4:45pm Voices from the Team-Teaching Classroom Nagano This presentation investigates team-teaching between a Japanese teacher and an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in an English classroom in a junior high school in Japan. I visited a junior high school located in Nagano Prefecture and observed one team-teaching lesson. Afterwards interviews were...
30 Nov 2008, 1:30pm to 4:30pm An Afternoon with Arudou Debito Iwate-Aomori Arudou Debito, activist, author, and Japan Times columnist, will be speaking at Iwate JALT on Sunday, November 30, on human rights in Japan (what else?). He won't just be talking about his old chestnuts of racial discrimination, but also how other groups and minorities in Japan, including the...
29 Nov 2008, 1:30pm to 4:30pm An Afternoon with film maker Linda Ohama Ms. Ohama is third generation Japanese Canadian who has produced seven full length feature films centering on the struggles of people, including working and living in a foreign country, the suffering of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, etc.. Her latest film, "Obachan's Garden",...
23 Nov 2008, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Peer Support Writing Workshop Osaka Contributions for the JALT 2008 Proceedings are due on December 1st. In this workshop, we hope to provide peer support for anyone planning to submit a paper. We will be looking at both content- and form-related features that should improve your chances of having the paper accepted for...
23 Nov 2008, 1:00pm to 5:00pm Task Sequence and Design for all Classrooms Shizuoka The presenter will give a brief introduction of tasks related to motivational theory based on the Pintrich and De Groot's Model (1990). Then, in a workshop format, take the participants through a receptive skills listening lesson specifically focusing on task sequences and how that may help or...
23 Nov 2008, 9:00am to 6:00pm Tohoku EXPO Sendai Bringing together all English teachers. There will be presentations and materials for college teachers, high school teachers. elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers. In fact, the aim is to provide top-class presentations and material displays for every kind of English teacher. You can...
22 Nov 2008, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Content-Based Instruction: A tale with two flavors Akita Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is a methodology that utilizes a theme-based curriculum rather than focusing on the traditional forms, functions, situations or skills. We will examine two different types of CBI course: one a four-skills practical English course on the theme of global climate...
16 Nov 2008, 4:00pm to 5:00pm Evaluation of Materials for Young Learners Okayama This presentation will provide a brief introduction to systematic textbook evaluation. Results of evaluations of two EFL/ESL textbook series for children, Finding Out and Let's Go, will be discussed. The aim is to supply teachers with skills to critically evaluate textbooks and materials for...