Chapter Events
Each of JALT’s 36 active chapters sponsors from 5 to 12 events every year. All JALT members may attend events at any chapter at member rates—usually free. Chapters, don’t forget to add your event to the JALT calendar or send the details to the editor (see submission guidelines).
CHAPTER EVENTS ONLINE: You can access all of JALT’s events online at www.jalt.org/events.
JALT Events Calendar
A Virtual Asian Textbook Tour
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 23:00
Date and Time: Saturday, 16 June 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm Speaker: Najma Janjua, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences
Can textbooks tell why Japanese lag behind other Asian countries on standard tests of English proficiency? This workshop will take the audience on a virtual Asian textbook tour with stops in China, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. At each stop the audience will taste a local ELT textbook sample and try to see if it can help them answer the above question.
Location: JR GIFU Station - Heartful Square Culture Centre 2nd Floor (Southeast end of Gifu Station) Contact or Queries: kim_horne@hotmail.com~ - ~
Standardized Language testing in Japan
Posted Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:36
Date and Time: Saturday, 21 July 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm Speaker: Edward Sarich
Standardized language testing is ubiquitous in Japan. Inexpensive and easily mass distributed, their use has been encouraged at every level of the education system. Over the past thirty years, external testing agencies have been increasingly relied upon to make standardized tests for use as benchmarks in the education system and in the private sector.
Location: Zaza City Palette, 5th Floor Contact or Queries: danshonest@yahoo.com~ - ~
Encouraging learner autonomy through peer feedback in the writing classroom
Posted Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:32
Date and Time: Sunday, 10 June 2012 - 1:30pm - 4:30pm Speaker: Jennie Roloff Rothman
Peer feedback is crucial for managing group dynamics, empowering effective writing and developing learner autonomy. By reflecting on the writing process and peer work, learners can improve their own writing skills while supporting that same development in their classmates. This support helps create a safe, mutually beneficial environment-a community of writers-where learning can flourish.
Location: Zaza City Palette, 5th Floor Contact or Queries: danshonest@yahoo.com~ - ~
Textbooks, Tasks, and Fluency
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 15:27
Date and Time: Sunday, 20 May 2012 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm Speaker: Theron Muller (teacher and researcher based in Japan)
There will be 2 parts in this workshop. In the first part, Theron will explain how he adapts textbook activities to make them more task-like. Participants are encouraged to bring the textbooks they teach with to consider how they can adapt activities for their own classrooms.
Location: Hiroshima Peace Park, 3F Conference Room~ - ~
Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Communicative Competence
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 00:52
Date and Time: Sunday, 19 February 2012 - 1:00pm - 4:45pm Speaker: Megumi Kawate－Mierzejewska
This seminar aims to raise participants’ awareness of cross-cultural pragmatic norms. A variety of speech acts will be explored such as apologizing, requesting, and refusing, focusing on the mismatches and inconsistencies in these acts between English and Japanese.
Location: Kanagawa University, Yokohama Campus, Building 20, Room 105~ - ~
EFL Teacher Journeys Conference
Posted Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 16:02
Date and Time: Sunday, 24 June 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm Speaker: Various
This one-day mini-conference hosted by Shizuoka JALT and the JALT Teacher Education and Development(TED) Special Interest Group is intended to spark new conversations around the broad theme of EFL Teacher Journeys. Presentations will recount stories of teacher journeys, either the presenter’s own, those of students or classes, or other teachers.
Location: Kyouiku Kaikan (across from Shin-Shizuoka station) in the basement (5-minute walk north from JR station)~ - ~
Kyoto -- Learner Development SIG Joint Event
Posted Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:17
Date and Time: Sunday, 8 April 2012 - 10:00am - 3:00pm Speaker: Ann Mayeda (Konan Women's University) Speaker: Phil Brown (Konan Women's University) Speaker: Akiko Takagi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
In April, to kick off the new academic year, Kyoto JALT will be collaborating the Learner Development SIG to bring you a day of stimulating workshops and discussions. The three presenters will focus on very different areas with the overall theme of learner development and autonomy.
Location: Kyoto Kyoiku Bunka Centre Contact or Queries: jaltkyoto@gmail.com~ - ~
