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The Language Teacher hosts a column, Chapter Reports, reporting on events that have taken place in JALT Chapters around Japan. Chapters are encouraged to report on events in their chapters. This serves as a record of what you do, gives important feedback to presenters, and provides a useful resource for other groups looking for potential presenters.
To submit reports, please contact the Editor for submission guidelines. More information on chapters and their contacts is available on the JALT National Website.
Chapter Reports
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2008
2007
- Intensive Reading in the EFL Classroom
- Scavenger Hunt
- The Place of Placement Tests
- 18th Annual Suwako Charity Walk
- A New Textbook
- A Practical Workshop on Using Your iPod in the Classroom
- Action Log and Topic-Based Instruction
- Brazilian or Japanese: Choosing the Best Education
- Bringing the World into your Classroom through Video
- Can We Communicate Without Using Strategies?
- Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in the Classroom
- Cultural Codes and the Immediate Method
- Curriculum Coordination: Building a Professional Community of Teachers
- Dialogue and Vocabulary Journals
- Discussion and Debate Made Easy
- Drama Activities for the EFL Classroom
- earning About Others in English
- Encouraging Young Learners, and their Teachers, to Communicate in English
- Experiences with Action Research: 1) Seeking Effective Ways to Teach Japanese Writing
- Experiences with Action Research: 2) English Grammar Lessons
- Extensive Reading: Indispensable... but How Do You Do It?
- First Day Ice Breakers
- Fluency Training
- Focus on Content: Materials and Techniques for Teaching Beginning Academic Writing
- Gender in Language
- Getting to Know STEP and the EIKEN Test
- Getting Your Foot in the Publishing Door
- Giving Peace Studies a Chance
- Going eMultimodalf in the Writing Classroom
- Ideas for New Classes
- Incorporating Thinking Skills and ESD in the FL Classroom
- Increase Studentsf Interest and Motivation through Drawing
- Iroirona Hanashi: Using Stories with Younger Learners
- Japanese in the EFL Class? The Why and the Way
- Learning About Others in English
- Learning Pragmatics in Foreign Language Classrooms
- Linguistic Phonics and Beginning Reading Instructions
- Meaning-Focused Learning Through Drama
- Media and Foreign Image Building
- More Community and Motivation Through Coloring
- Motivating Learners through Pain and Pleasure
- Moving up with Music
- Multi-Sensory Teaching
- Multimedia Showcase in the Age of Web 2.0
- Native English Teachers: Ideas for Self Introductions at Elementary School
- Off to the Onsen
- Perspective on Learner Demotivation
- Picture Books, Storytelling, and Imaginative Learning
- Poetics for Autonomous Learning and Teaching
- Professional Development Workshop
- Professional Development Workshop: Supporting Young Practitioners
- Raising English Ability Through Making Speeches
- Rythmic Fluency Practice
- Sign Language in the Language-teaching Classroom
- Sing Your Life: Effectively Using Pop Lyrics in EFL
- Speech Contest Titles to Avoid
- Stories to Heal the World
- Talking Heads: Language in Context of Brain and Cognition
- Task-Based Teaching: Sorting out the Misunderstandings
- Teaching Debate and Structured Discussions in EFL Classes
- Teaching Liaison (Blends) to Enhance Listening Skills/Responsive Skills
- Teaching Listening and Speaking Strategies
- Teaching Micro-Skills for the TOEFL iBT Speaking Tasks and Integrated Writing Task
- Teaching Speech Acts Can Enrich Our Studentsf Learning
- Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life in Japan
- The Global Workforce Development through Business Internship Program at Kanda University of International Studies
- The Ins and Outs of Getting Published
- The Model of Monolingual eHalf-Japanesef Girls in Japan
- The New TOEIC Test: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges
- The New TOEIC Tests: Understanding the Challenges, Preparing for Success
- The Perfect TOEIC Course
- The Power of Stories to Teach and Motivate
- The Too Easy Guide to Self-Publishing
- Therefs a Book Inside All of Us
- Tips on Giving Effective Presentations
- Tools of the Trade: Utilizing the Video-iPod to Deliver Engaging EFL Content
- TUJ and Fukuoka JALT 2nd Annual Applied Linguistics Colloquium, July 2007 Plenary: Teaching Fluency for Speaking and Listening
- Understanding and Adapting to Changes to the TOEIC
- University EFL Writing as a Process Toward Self-Discovery and Self-Identity: Socio-Cultural and Process Writing Approaches
- Using Graded Readers in an Extensive Reading Program
- Using Literature in Teaching Language
- Using Movies
- Using Song Lyrics for Reading Content Words with Young Learners
- Using Student Newspapers to Promote Communication
- Versatile Video iPods as Classroom Tools
- Where Your Students Are Coming From: High School English
- Who is STEP? What is EIKEN? EIKEN Goes Global
- Why Extensive Reading is Necessary in all Language Programs
- Word Association and Vocabulary Development through Tasks
- Writing Class: A Fun Part of Senior High School
- Zen and the Art of Statistics
2006
- A Comprehensive Approach for Learning English with Computer Assistance
- A Crash Course in Public Speaking
- A Drama Approach in an Autonomous Learning Environment
- Abraham and Albert The ELT Implications of Two Western Pedagogical Theories
- Adapting the Han Group Organization for Use in College English Classes
- Applying the Research on Second Language Acquisition Studies
- Assessing English Proficiency by Computer: CALL Software and Prosody Analysis
- Assisting Learners: One ALT's Experience
- Back to the Future: Lesson Ideas for Teaching Children
- Blogs as a Teacher Research Tool
- Bringing Cooperative Learning to Life in Your Classroom
- BYOI (Bring Your Own Idea)/Open Executive Meeting.
- Can't Get No Satisfaction?: Role Perception Among Native-Speaker Tertiary EFL Educators
- Challenging Myths About Japanese Language Learners
- Communication through Drama
- Communicative English in JHS: The JTE & ALT Working Together
- Content-Based Instruction Workshop: Windows on Teaching Young Learners
- Controversial Issues in EFL: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
- Cooperative Learning Techniques in English Lessons
- Corpus-informed Materials: A New Era in Language Learning
- Creating Campus Community: Global Issues and Experiential Learning
- Culture Content-based English Materials...
- Dealing with the First Language and the First Culture Interference for Japanese Learning of English
- Designing Self-Assessment for Proficiency
- Discourse Across Cultures: Preparing Japanese to Use English as an International Language
- East Shikoku JALT & JALTCALL Workshop: Teaching and Learning with Technology
- Ecotourism and the Environment: Concepts, Definitions, and Diagrams
- Electronic Dictionary Workshop
- Elementary English for the Elementary School
- English for Young Learners
- English Immersion in Japan
- Enhancing Fluency in Writing for Beginner-level Learners: Utilizing Paper and Computer
- Exploring Action Research Methods: Examples from an Extensive Reading Program
- Feminist Pedagogy in the ESL/EFL Classroom
- From ABC to Reading Extensively
- Fun Activites with Junior and Senior High Learners
- Gender Differences in Hearing
- Getting Students Interested in Authentic Listening
- Human Rights Education in the Classroom
- Ibaraki Mini-Conference:
- Increasing Student Exposure to and Interest in English Through Free and Easy-to-use Web-based Services and Resources
- International Exchange Project: Australian and Japanese University Studentsf Discussion of Global Issues via Email
- Interview-based Journalistic Feature Writing: A Bridge Between Elementary and Thesis Writing for ESL Students
- Investigating www.istopmotion.com
- Issues in Elementary School English Education from the Perspective of the JTE
- Language Learning Histories
- Learner Psychology and Motivation
- Looking Like the Enemy
- Lost in Class? Ways to Navigate a Tough Crowd
- Make it Strange: Defamiliarization in the Language Classroom: Introducing gEnglish Communication in the Classroomh
- Making a Small-Class Atmosphere in Big University Classes
- Methods for Introducing Global Issues in the EFL Classroom
- Mining Authentic Texts: Integrating Global Education Content and Language Learning Aims using Commencement Speeches
- Moving Up With Music
- Music in the EFL Classroom
- My Share Experience: Inspiration & Creative Lesson Planning
- NLP and Feldenkrais®: Body and Mind in the Classroom
- Planning for Immersion Education
- Podcasting: A New Way to Reach Students
- Portfolio Fun! Cooperative Assessment Through Sharing Learning Processes
- Practical Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms
- Practical Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms
- Preliminary Report on Linguistic Readiness of Japanese Students Studying at an American University
- Psychometrics in Applied Linguistics
- Putting Reading and Listening On-line
- Role and Power Sharing between JTEs and AETs
- Second Mini Colloquium--Researching ELT in the Japanese context
- Self-Evaluation of Classroom Participation
- Shinshu Officerfs Year-end Wrap-up & Christmas Party
- Short-Term English Immersion Courses in a Japanese High School
- Spotlight on Junior and Senior High School Teaching:
- Starting Junior High School: The Current Situation and What Teachers Expect from Elementary School Education
- Strategies to Help Students Communicate Now
- Student Projects in the EFL Classroom: Why and How
- Student Resistance
- Systems for Success
- Task-based Language Learning Through Debate
- Teaching Comparative Religion
- Teaching During Your Break
- Teaching English in Thailand: Stories from Chiang Mai
- Teaching English to Children
- Teaching English to Older Learners
- Teaching Global Issues and Language
- Teaching Pragmatics Through Consciousness-raising Tasks
- Teaching the New Global Education Course in the SELHi Context: High School Curriculum Development
- Teaching Writing
- Teaching Young Learners: Issues in Elementary English
- Teaching Young Learners: Issues in Elementary English Education
- The 17th Annual Suwako Charity Walk
- The CSN Program
- The Enneagram and Interpersonal Peace Workshop
- The Song of Myself: Haiku in the EFL Classroom
- Toy Box, Music Box: Teaching Young and Special Needs Learners with Classical Music, Toys, and Mexican Music
- Use of Literacy Autobiographies in Narrative: A Reflection on Biliteracy Development
- Using iPods
- Using Native Culture as a Spur to Communicating in English
- Using Native Culture as a Spur to Communicating in English
- Using Picture Books in the Lesson
- Using Podcasts: Even Without an iPod! and Using Your iPod in the Classroom
- Using US High School Texts at a Science and Information Technology University
- Using Whole Discourse Tasks for Language Teaching
- Versatile Video iPods as Classroom Tools
- What Are Blogs?
- What Did You Think of the Course: Understanding Students' Course Evaluations
- What is the Look and Listen Method?
- What Motivates Older Learners?
- Why Do Students Lose Their Motivation?
- Wine, Cheese, and the New TOEICR
2005
- 17th Annual JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop:
- A Drama Approach: Engaging Learners in Their Own Learning
- A Tinderbox for Your Thoughts
- Activities for Young Learners of English: Listening, Thinking, and Learning
- Adaptable Classroom Activities
- Addressing Individual Differences through Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- AIU Travel Service Club Research Trip to Thailand
- Ambiguity, Neutralization and Telling the Truth: A Phonetic Approach to the Teaching of EFL Listening Comprehension
- Aspects of Communicative English Teaching:
- Beyond the Commercial Textbook: Your Own is Better
- Bilingual Education in Asia
- Broadening Students] Global Perspectives
- Canadian Studies in Japan
- Children's Learning
- Class Activities for Developing Speaking Fluency
- Class Activities for Developing Speaking Fluency
- Classroom Management
- Computer-Based Writing Classes
- Controversial Content in EFL: What is Justifiable and What is Not?
- Current Trends and the Future of Elementary School English Activities
- Dealing with Lazy Students
- Dealing with Lazy Students
- Dealing with the gX-Factorh: Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom
- Dealing with the gX-Factorh: Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom
- Distance Study: Getting Qualifications from Home
- Dyslexia: Ifve Heard of It, But What Is It Really? Dyslexia and Language Learning
- Electronic Dictionary vs. Paper Dictionary: How Differences in Dictionary Interfaces Affect English Language Learning
- Engaging Imaginations: Creative Cross Cultural Activities as a Basis for Language Learning
- English Blast: The English Enrichment Program for Bilingual Children in Japan
- English Education in Oman
- English Language Communication Program Workshop for Teachers
- English Teachers in Public Education
- Enhancing Fluency in Writing for Beginner-level Learners: Utilizing Paper and Computer
- Enhancing Fluency in Writing for Beginner-level Learners: Utilizing Paper and Computer
- Examining Friends: Using Genre Analysis to Analyze TV Scripts
- Extensive Reading Activities
- Field Notes Facilitator
- Five-Step Process Writing Plan
- Five-Step Process Writing Plan
- Global Education through Role Play and Simulations
- Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom
- Heartful Square
- Helping Exchange Students Respond to Intercultural Conflicts and Dilemma
- Helping Others, Helping Yourself
- How to Use Teacher Talk in Childrens English Classrooms
- Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Colleges and Universities:
- Introducing Self-directed Learning to College Students
- Is Shadowing a Magic Wand?
- JALT Jr.
- Learning About TOEFL: Focusing on the New TOEFL-iBT
- Learning Styles and Learning Cycles
- Learning to Read the Easy Way
- Listening Tactics for Better High School Language Learning
- Managing Students' Online Learning with MOODLE
- Mini Colloquium: Local ELT Research by Local Researchers in Association with Shinshu ELT Research
- Mini-conference: Working Together: Making a Difference in Language Education
- Multiple Intelligences Theory and its Application to the Second Language Classroom
- My Share Listening Activities for the High School Classroom
- My Share Meeting
- My Share:
- News In the Classroom
- Non-traditional Extreme Storytelling Activities
- Obstacles to Improving English Learning in Japanese Schools and Universities
- Obstacles to Improving English Learning in Japanese Schools and Universities
- Opening Studentsf Eyes to the World
- Oral Testing for Communication Classes
- Osaka JALT Hanami
- Outdoor Language Learning: An Alternative Learning Environment
- Person to Person
- Putting Reading and Listening Online
- Reading:How to Turn Students of Any Age into Bookworms
- Reading:How to Turn Students of Any Age into Bookworms
- Sharing Our Stories:
- Significant Scribbles: From Sentence Combining to Diary Writing
- Special One Day Meeting:
- Student Attitudes in Japan, Cambodia, and Thailand: A Report on Three Studies
- Talking Texts
- Task-Based Learning
- Teaching English Intonation
- Teaching English to Junior High School Students
- Teaching Global Issues and Language
- Teaching Language and Intercultural Communication Skills
- Teaching Listening to Low Level Learners & Teaching the Strategies of Speaking
- Teaching PowerPoint Presentations
- Teaching PowerPoint Presentations
- Teaching Returnee Children
- Teaching the Strategies of Listening and Teaching the Strategies of Speaking
- Team-teaching Methodologies for High Schools
- The 16th Annual Suwa Charity Walk
- The Changing Face of STEP Eiken
- The Conversation Circle
- The State of Bilingual Reading Education Throughout Asia
- Trend Five: The Adult Education Boom
- Two presentations
- Two separate presentations looked at the SELHi (Super English Language High School) program from two perspectives.
- Using Magic in the Classroom
- Using the Internet Without a Computer
- Using the Internet Without a Computer
- Using the Internet Without a Computer
- Using Video and DVD in the Classroom
- Visual Communication and the Art of Presentation
- What CALL Can Do in EFL Environments
- What Makes a Language Learner Successful?
- Whatfs Lev Got to Do With It? Vygotskyan Trends in Recent Pedagogy, Professional Development, and Language Acquisition
- Wrestling with Writing: A Case Study
- Zatokichi Zem Sensory English Experience Workshop
- Zatokichi Zemi: Sensory English Experience Workshop
2004
- My Share Meeting:
- A Pronunciation Workout
- A Teaching Strategy: How to Develop Communicative Competence through Shadowing and L1 Speakers
- A Way to Use Graded Readers Effectively and Extensively
- Activities That Go Beyond Linguistics
- Adapting Online Reading Materials
- Adapting Textbook Activities on the Spot
- Adapting Textbook Activities on the Spot
- An English Nagasaki Reader/John Ford: Return to Nagasaki
- An Overview of Japanese English Education from the Meiji Period to the Present with an Outlook for the Future
- An Overview of Moodle: Course Management System for
- An Overview of Moodle: Course Management System for Teaching
- Annual Kusatsu Gathering:
- Applying Neil Andersonfs ACTIVE Reading Process
- Applying Neil Andersonfs ACTIVE Reading Process by Steve Shucart
- Are Your Kids Salivating?
- Attainable Goals and Self-directed LearningIn English
- Beats! and Stories with The Oxford Picture Dictionary
- Cartooning and Drawing Techniques for Teachers
- Class newsletters: A Class Project
- Class Presentations
- Companion Website Resources for Teachers
- Cooperative Development as a Medium for Teacher Development
- Covenant Players International Communications Theatre
- Creating a Textbook for the Teaching of English for Science and Technology
- Cross-Cultural Simulation Games
- Delivery Skills for Public Speaking
- Developing Bilingual Literacy--A Roundtable Discussion
- DramaWorks Revisited
- Elementary School English: A Discussion of the Current Situation
- ELT Materials Use and Design: Problems and Resolutions
- English Games for Adults
- English in the Elementary School
- English Language Cooperative
- From Competition to Cooperation: Games in the EFL Classroom
- Getting Students to Speak in Class, Even in Large Groups: The Immediate Method in High Schools
- Global Issues
- Graded Readers: The Value in Extensive Reading
- Group Sensitive Teaching
- Intensive English Training on the Web
- Inter-city My Share Live: Nagoya and Toyohashi
- Language Teaching and Teaching Materials
- Learner Opportunities Outside the Classroom
- Learning Maps
- Learning Through Images and Actions
- Learning Through Images and Actions
- Mind Maps: Meaning and Form
- My Share: 1) The Utility of CALL Systems
- My Share: 2) A First Lesson that Works
- My Share: 3) Computers, Visualization and Academic Literacy
- My Share: 4) Cooperative Learning in a Writing Class
- No Japanese! English Only!?
- On line, On Site
- Raising Children Bilingually and Biculturally in Japan
- SETS 2003: Summer English Teachersf Seminar
- Super Eigorian for Elementary School English
- Support for Narrow Listening Libraries
- Teacher Assisted Pair Learning (TAPL): Italiano - 1st Two Hours
- Teacher Talk, Student Comprehension and Training for Elementary School English Teachers
- Teacher Talk, Student Comprehension and Training for Elementary School English Teachers
- Teaching English to Children
- Teaching English to Children through Music, Gesture, Phonics
- Teaching Reading in Language Education
- The English Fair: Enhancing Motivation at the High School Level
- The English Fair: Fostering Motivation and Confidence in Large Classes at Colleges and Universities
- The English Fair: How to Teach a Primary English Class Using Total Physical Response (TPR)
- The Future of CALL
- The Future of Video in Education
- The Lexical Approach and Making Vocabulary Memorable
- The Lexical Approach and Making Vocabulary Memorable
- The Use of Videos in ELT
- The Volunteer Educational Network: Working with English Teachers in Rural Southeast Asia
- Third English Language Teaching Seminar hosted by Osaka and Kobe Chapters
- TOEIC Test Taking Techniques
- Training Students to Use Basic Learning Strategies
- Understanding of Student Perceptions of University Education
- University/College ELT Panel Discussion: Language Teaching and Teaching Materials
- Using English in Thailand: Is It Different from Japan?
- Using Short Texts for Integrated Skills Practice in Language
- Using Visual/Spatial Intelligence
- Viva! Japanese Teachers of English! Theme: Monolingual Classes vs. Multilingual Classes; Native Speaker Teachers vs. Non-native Speaker Teachers
- Vocabulary Teaching and Acquisition
- When Are Rights Wrong?
- Window on the World and End of Year Party
- Wonder Kids
- Wonder Kids: Drama Activities for Young Children
- Writing Materials for Content-based Language Classes
2003
- Addressing Individual Differences Through Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- Confidence-Building Interactive Games/Activities
- Creative and Productive Testing by Mike Guest.
- Current Concerns in Socio-Cultural Training in the Classroom
- Double Deal from Longman: 1) Storytelling; 2) Motivating Student Opinion.
- Making Teaching Materials Using Computer-Generated Resources
- Putting Words in their Mouths: Shadowing, Summarizing, and Dictogloss
- Teaching Students Who Don't Choose to be in Class
2002
- 1) Process and Thought: Two Articles that have shaped EFL Writing Instruction, and 2) The Psychology of Difficult Students
- A Report on Action Research into Teaching Spoken English Norms
- Activities and Songs for All Your Children's Classes
- Asian Englishes Haiku Workshop
- Audiovisual Materials: Utilizing Tasks in Language Teaching, Why and How
- Bridging the Gap Between the Classroom and the Real World
- Can Teaching Culture be Harmful to Language Learners?
- Copyright or Wrong
- Deconstructing TLT - Part II
- Developing English Skills in Young Learners
- Distance Learning: A Workshop
- DramaWorks
- Exploring Varieties of English in the FL Classroom
- How to Get Published in the Language Teacher
- How to Teach English to Children More Actively
- Making Effective Use of Multi-media in Project Work
- Panel Discussion: Homework II
- Storytelling in Language Teaching
- Student attitudes at three universities in Okayama
- Testing for Reliability: Test Item Analysis on a TOEIC Listening Test
- The Cancer of Competition; Games in the EFL Classroom
- The Silent Way
- The TALK Learning System
- The Use of Proverbs in Teaching Communicative English
- Two Presentations
- Uh, I don't understand!
- Using Games in the Classroom
- Video Production in the Classroom: Why and How
- Vygotski Inspired Practical Pedagogical Strategies
- What Happened at the Conference / Activities for First Classes in the New Year
- Which texts work best? Learner attitudes to EFL textbooks
- Workshop
2001
- A Psychodynamic Approach to Enhancing Perceived Value: Shifting Beliefs and Perceptions in Language Learning
- A Task Based Approach to Using Video in Content Courses at Japanese Universities
- Aspects of Teaching at Vocational Schools and Universities in Japan
- Converstation Strategies and Timed Conversations
- Cultures Alive! Multicultural Education for Children
- Global Issues
- Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Practical Handbook for Elementary School English Activities
- Magical Journeys: Folktales in the Classroom
- Mind Maps: Meaning and Form
- My Share
- Taking Fairytales off the Road
- The Education System of the Philippines in the 21st Century
- Training Students to Use Basic Learning Strategies
- Video and Movies in the Classroom
- Ways of Improving Speaking
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