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Past Events

Details of past JALT events from late 2008 onwards. For a listing of earlier events (2001-2008) please visit the events calendar archive.


01

Nov
2024, 12:00am to 11:55pm

2nd Annual PIE-in-Nagoya Conference

Performance in Education

Performance in Education activities can be special presents for our students to help them celebrate any occasion, be it a holiday or the end of a unit. Help us prepare to belatedly commemorate Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s . . . or even the end of a unit or semester! Come share...

29

Oct
2024, 8:00pm

ZPD in October

JALT Central

Next ZPD: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, 8 PM - 9 PM

Our next ZPD session is taking place on Tuesday, October 29th at 8pm. It will be hosted by our wonderful TYL SIG. Are you a teacher of younger learners? Or do you work with older learners and you want to learn about what they are doing...

27

Oct
2024, 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Simple and Effective Corpus Tools for High School and University EFL Learners

Osaka

Please join the first in a series of Osaka JALT Online Forums. Martin Spivey will present simple and effective corpus tools for high school and university EFL learners. Here is a brief introduction to his talk: 

Although the concept of using corpora in language education has been around...

27

Oct
2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

PresentERs - Norikazu Okuyama: How to Secure Time for doing Extensive Reading During Class Time

Extensive Reading

We will have a short talk about Extensive Reading from Norikazu Okuyama on Sunday 27 October 19:00-20:00. The event will involve a short 20-30 minute casual talk from our PresentER, followed by around 20-30 minutes of questions and discussion. PresentERs takes place on the last Sunday of each...

27

Oct
2024, 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Using dictogloss as a communicative task in university classrooms

Sendai

Abstract: For most students, the ultimate goal of learning a second or other language is to interact successfully with others using that language. While some may achieve this through reading and writing, the greater majority appear to prefer to develop their listening and speaking skills. In...

27

Oct
2024, 2:00pm

Shizuoka JALT: Catharsis Through Support — Black Women in Professional Spaces in Japan

Shizuoka

Catharsis Through Support – Black Women in Professional Spaces in Japan

Within the small expat community in Japan, the Black diaspora is generally considered to be  a minority within the minority. This presentation is based on a research paper exploring the professional journeys of Black...

27

Oct
2024, 9:30am to 11:30am

Hokuriku JALT presents our Autumn Presentation Event

Hokuriku

Registration: Send your name so we can get an accurate count of people for the event. Please include if you are JALT
member or not. Please send to Wayne Malcolm at wamalcolmjalt2008@gmail.com

 

Join us for a morning of thought-provoking presentations from. All bases are...

26

Oct
2024, 6:00pm

JALT2024 Conference Preview, and Fukuoka Chapter AGM

Fukuoka

The meeting on October 26th will start with our Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will last about twenty minutes, and then feature a JALT2024 Conference Preview by the JALT2024 Kevin Cleary Invited Speaker, Robert Chartrand. Details below.

Annual General Meeting

First, about the AGM,...

26

Oct
2024, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

JALT2024 Pre-presentations: Chapter Members Share their Research

Okayama

JALT2024 Pre-presentations!
Come see some of what's in store in Shizuoka

Empowering Educators: Disability Rights and Reality in Japan
Teresa Stockwell, Gavin Thomas
This presentation explores the experiences of educators with disabilities in Japan, examining both...

26

Oct
2024, 2:00pm

Potential inequalities in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs in Madrid, Spain. – Natalia Evnitskaya

Akita

Abstract

I will present a study on potential inequalities in Content and Language Integrated
Learning (CLIL) programs in Madrid (Spain), where students from grades 7 to 12 are
divided into two strands to learn school subjects through L2 English, yet with differing
‘...