Ibaraki JALT

Ibaraki Chapter October Meeting Date and Time:  Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 14:00 - 16:00 Venue:  Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 2), Azuma 3-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken  1. Afternoon Program (14:00 - 16:00) Title:  Strategic competence: What is it, how to teach it, and how to assess it      Presenter:  Javier Salzar, University of Tsukuba    　　 Javier has over 10 years of experience teaching English in Japan throughout all education levels (kindergarten to graduate level), and his teaching approach is centered around learner’s development. His research interests include: self regulated learning, active learning, strategic competence development, gamification and the use of humor in the classroom. 2.      Business Meeting (not this time) Saturday, October 21 , 2017, 14:00~16:00 Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 2) Azuma 3-1, Tsukuba-shi Doors open at 13:30. No Pre-registration necessary! JALT Members: Free  Non-members: 500 yen JALT Ibaraki chapter meetings are open t

Ibaraki Chapter June Meeting Date and Time:    Saturday, 24 June 2017 -  2:00pm  -  5:00pm Speaker:   Roxana Sandu, University of Tsukuba Venue : Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 2)            Azuma 3-1 Tsukuba-shi 1. Featured Presentation (14:00 - 16:00) Title: Educate for the future: Fostering 21st Century Skills in the English Language Classroom By: Roxana Sandu, University of Tsukuba 2. Business Meeting (16:20 - 17:00) Presentation Summary: Living in an increasingly globalized and digitized world, students nowadays should be educated in order to meet the expectations of tomorrow’s job market. Therefore, education, including foreign language education, should prepare students for the unpredictable future that lies ahead of them. The purpose of this talk is threefold. The first is to introduce some of the frameworks for 21st century skills, while focusing on the importance of teaching not only the 4Cs (communication, critical thinking, collaboration and creativity) of 21st Cen

The Japan Association for Language Teaching -JALT-  Ibaraki Chapter March Meeting  Presentations: Morning 1. “Keep your powder dry: A prepper’s guide to academic professional development” (10:00~12:00) by Michael　Parrish,  - JALT National Job Information Centre (JIC) co-coordinator,  - Assistant professor at Kwansei Gakuin University Afternoon 2. “Dark side of Language Teaching” (14:00~14:35)  by Martin Pauly, Professor Emeritus Tsukuba University of Technology 3. “Building a publishing pipeline for academic success” (14:45~16:15) by Richard Miller,  - JALT National Job Information Centre (JIC) co-coordinator - Associate professor in business administration at Kobe Gakuin University 4. Business Meeting (16:30~17:00) Saturday, March 25th, 2017, 9:30~17:00 Click on the link below for an access map. Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 2) Azuma 3-1 Tsukuba-shi Doors open at 9:30. No Pre-registration necessary! JALT Members: Free  Non-members: 500 yen JALT Ibaraki chapter m

1. Presentation (14:00~16:10) Butterfly Wing Flaps and Second Language Acquisition by James A. Elwood, Meiji University Abstract of Presentation: Butterfly Wing Flaps and Second Language Acquisition James A. Elwood Meiji University Lorenz (1963) may have correctly characterized the relationship between lepidopteral beings and weather events, but distance has long been a sadly underresearched aspect of second language acquisition (SLA). This talk will address a triad of affective variables in SLA to which little attention has been given: perceived distance, ego permeability, and extroversion. A brief discussion of the history of the three constructs will be followed by a detailed explanation of a study that investigated the addition of these to two models of willingness to communicate in SLA. We will conclude with a look at pedagogical implications from these results.  James Elwood holds a doctorate in TESOL from Temple University and is an associate professor in the Faculty

Presentations: Morning Education never ends: Language acquisition post-academia and the Dutch “ permanent education ” policies for official (certified) translators/interpreters (11:00~12:10) by Jeroen Bode , The University of Tsukuba           Afternoon Multi-step course design for aiding students in the development of critical thinking competence and dialogic discourse (14:00~16:10) by David Gann , Tokyo University of Science Business Meeting (16:20~17:00) Saturday, September 10 th , 2016, 11:00~17:00 Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 2) Click here for Google Map! Doors open at 10:30. No Pre-registration necessary! JALT Members: Free  Non-members: 500 yen JALT Ibaraki chapter meetings are open to all interested in learning and teaching languages.  Support the Chapter Book Fair! Donate no-longer-needed educational materials – Get used ones for 50 yen! Abstracts and Biographies: Education never ends: Language acquisition post-academia and the Dutch “ permanent education ” pol

The next chapter meeting will be on September 10, Saturday at Tsukuba Gakuin University. Details to follow as they become available.

Date: Saturday, June 4th, 2016 Place: Ibaraki Christian University, Hitachi Time: 11:00~17:00 (10:30 Doors open.) Morning Presentation -  (11:00~11:40) Applicability of the Silent Way Method: Evaluating in terms of Foreign Language Anxiety and Conversation Analysis by Hidenori Kuwabara, Tokiwa University & Yosuke Ogawa, Kansai University Abstract: Since the Silent Way fell out of use in the 80s, it has not been examined by any of the modern pedagogical methodologies. Nevertheless, this unique method could have the potential to be applied to current language classrooms, especially with focus on form and fluency activities. This study attempts to investigate the applicable features of the Silent Way from the Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) perspective along with a qualitative analysis of its interactional sequence. Data from video recordings and pre/post-questionnaires was analysed to assess how learners’ affective filters (i.e. FLA) were processed and how the interactional architectu