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.

16 Nov 2008, 3:00pm to 4:00pm Teaching Reading to Young Learners: Phonics? Sight Words? Whole Language? Yes! Okayama After a brief overview of the three methods, we will look at the value of, and discuss ways of, putting together all three methods to best nurture young readers. We will look at some common mistakes in teaching phonics, and suggestions for improving your teaching. Because most EFL...
16 Nov 2008, 1:30pm to 4:00pm Developing a Curriculum Enhancing Website Toyohashi This presentation will look at efforts to use a website to enhance curriculum. Specifically, the following needs were identified: - An online database which would allow for the sharing of students' example sentences in a vocabulary course with future students in the same course. -...
16 Nov 2008, 12:30pm to 1:15pm Osaka/Kansai JALT organizational meeting at Kansai ETJ Expo Osaka This year's Kansai ETJ Expo will again be held at Seifu High School, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. From 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. Osaka JALT and other Kansai area JALT chapters will meet to discuss various issues related to organizing various upcoming events. Presentation schedule: http://www....
15 Nov 2008, 7:00pm to 9:00pm The Pecha-kucha Group Share from JALT National Six of our members will attempt to utilize the growing trend of "pecha-kucha" (using 20 slides for 20 seconds each) to showcase one activity that they learned about at the recent JALT National Conference.
15 Nov 2008, 5:00pm to 7:00pm The Best of JALT International Conference Niigata Our chapter will be holding its second meeting on November 15th 2008, after our very successful first meeting. This time, we will give the floor to anyone who is going to the JALT International Conference to give a summary report of their favourite presentation. The national conference is the...
15 Nov 2008, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Interactive B-Learning: The next generation of ELT While published ELT materials will continue to dominate the language classroom, technology has undisputedly made significant inroads into collaborating with language education, resulting in "b-learning", or blended learning. This presentation will first bring you up to speed on what b-learning...
31 Oct to Nov 2008, 9:00am to 6:00pm JALT2008 Welcome JALT Central Shared Identities: Our Interweaving Threads 31 October – 3 November, 2008 National Olympics Memorial Youth Center Tokyo, Japan Our JALT2008 International Conference promises to be a very special event for language learners and educators alike. It will not only mark the...
15 Jun 2008, 1:30pm to 4:30pm Children's books for high school Ms. Takase had taught for ten years in a girls' high school, and used native English written children's picture books as a main source for her students learning. The students were allowed reading time in the library, in which they could choose any book they liked and read it for enjoyment. There...