Summer Eikaiwa Forum

Please join Osaka JALT in our second Summer Eikaiwa Forum! Current and former Eikaiwa teachers as well as any and all language professionals can meet, network and grow professionally in this series of presentations from Eikaiwa teachers. The event is online and free. All are welcome!

This time we'll have two presenters:

Paschal Orjika has been teaching English in Japan for half a decade now. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Human Resource Development. His field of specialization is adult education with an emphasis on self-directed learning. 

He will be presenting Self-directed Learning in the English Classroom.

Olivia Allanson is from Sydney, Australia, but now resides in Shiga, Japan where she works as an Eikaiwa English Teacher. She graduated from The University of Sydney with a bachelor's in English along with a master's in TESOL where she gained experience teaching practical English to international students. Born in the middle of a cultural hot pot, she developed a passion for language and its ability to connect and unite people of different backgrounds. As such, she places great value on language as a communicative tool, rather than as a summative assessment.

She will present a condensed version of her Masters thesis which focuses on CLT (Communicative Language Teaching). In this she will touch upon the key principles, goals and benefits of CLT through an interactive approach

Please register for the event here.

Back to School 2021

Thank you to everyone for making Back to School 2021 a great success. Click on the links in the block schedule to see recordings of sessions. More will be added later.

Back to School 2021 is Osaka JALT’s 11th annual spring mini-conference which aims to share ideas on a wide range of language teaching and learning topics to help everyone in the new academic year. There is sure to be something for everyone, and all are very welcome to join us for all or any part of the day or evening.

This year we'll again hold the event online due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Last year's event was our first online event and it went very well. Here's last year's schedule with links to recorded presentations, and abstracts.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted presentation proposals this year! Below are this year's conference presenters and presentation titles with some of the pre-recorded session links. You can find the list of presenters, their biographies, presentation titles and abstracts here.

Back to School 2021 Schedule

	Room 1			Room 2
9:30~	Coffee Time & Welcome
10:00~	Neil Cowie	Online assessment for language teaching
10:30~	Lindy Ledohowski & Tamanna Patel	Improving the Confidence of EFL Students Writing Skills Using Smart Templating Software		Jason Pipe	Timed-Pair-Practice to improve the Suprasegmental Features of Pronunciation
11:00~	Gordon Carlson & Daniel H. Markarian	Using Economics/ Financial Literacy Skills to Improve Cultural Dimension and Intercultural Competence		Thi Minh Ngoc Phung	Audiolingualism versus Task-based Language Teaching
11:30~	Marieta Simeonova-Pissarro & Philip Riccobono	Evaluation of Academic Word Acquisition: ESL vs. EFL		Daniel Orozco	How and When to Give Oral Corrective Feedback
12:00 ~13:00	Networking / Lunch (1 hour)
13:00~	Takaaki Hiratsuka	Perceived, Projected, and Recognized Identities of Foreign Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs)
13:30~	Paul Goldberg	Xreading: What’s New and What’s Next		Alison Kitzman	Classroom Management: Tricks from Start to Finish
14:00~	Laura Martinez	Navigating Nearpod: Ways to utilize its activities to increase student engagement		Claire Murray, Paul Mathieson, & Francesco Bolstad	Foreign Language Learning as Professional Development
14:30- 15:00	Networking / Break (30-min)
15:00~	John Carle	Using Humor to Create Engaging Materials		Oliver Rose	Providing Sentence-Level Practice with LingoLabOnline
15:30~	Eric Martin	Building and Measuring Second Language Listening Self-Efficacy		Zoe Barber	Supporting young learners with ASD in the EFL classroom
16:00~	Stuart McLean	Self-marking online form-recall and meaning-recall vocabulary tests		Wade Muncil	International Collaboration: It’s just a click away
				Networking / Break (30-min)
16:45~	Networking / Break (15-min)
17:00~	Bethany Lacy	Wonderstruck: Impacts of Multimodal Text and Think-Aloud Reading Techniques on L2 Reading Motivation		Andrew Blaker & Timothy Ellsworth	Adapting an Extensive Reading Program with Authentic Materials
17:30~	Bertram Mullin	Unique Pronunciation Method		Guy Cihi & Aaron Campbell	Motivate Your Students with a FREE Team Challenge Vocabulary Tournament
18:00~	Laura Martinez	Jamming with Jamboard: Investigating its uses in the hybrid classroom		Gabriela Torregiani	How to become a Successful teacherpreneur with the power of self marketing
18:30 ~19:30	Networking / Dinner (1 hour)
19:30~	Tomotaka Shiroyama	Technology-Mediated Task-Based Language Teaching for College and University students.
20:00~	Andrew Decker	Speaking without Reading with PechaKucha 20x20-style Presentations
20:15~	Gavin Young	Create Interactive Projects in Hypertext with Twine, a Free Software
20:30~	Christopher Prowant	Fostering English competence to maintain intrinsic motivation
20:45~ 21:30?	Wrap-up, reflections, & cocktail social

 Supplementary Files & Links from the chat:

John Carle's "Who will take care of Mum?" Document.

Free Trial Request for EssayJack

https://www.essayjack.com/

https://share.nearpod.com/ZhNMVdDfldb

https://nearpod.com

https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/item/399

https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Wonderstruck-Innovative-Selznicks-Talented-ebook/dp/B009G4J5SO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=wonderstruck+graphic+novel&qid=1620548916&sr=8-1

https://www.thebrianselznick.com/

https://youtu.be/0HeujZ45OZE?t=12

https://rb.gy/mfnp7n

This event is free for everyone, so please help spread the word and plan to join us on Sunday, May 9th, for part or all of what is sure to be a great day and evening!

Contact or Queries:  Send Email

Event Theme: Annual spring mini-conference

Back to School 2021は、新年度に向けて言語教育や学びに関するさまざまなアイデアを参加者の皆さんと共有する、大阪JALTが年に一度開催する春のミニ会議です。今年の会議はコロナ感染拡大に伴い5月9日（日）にオンラインにて開催します。過去の会議もそうであるように、今年のミニ会議も参加者の皆さんにきっと何かをもたらすはずです。最後まであるいはその日のいくつかのセッションの参加でも歓迎いたします。

どのような内容か興味がありましたら、去年のスケジュールと録音されたプレゼンテーションとプレゼンテーションの要約をご覧ください。

今年度のこのイベントも大阪女学院大学　国際共生研究所（RIICC）との共催です。開始時間および終了時間に変更が生じる可能性はありますが、日時が近づいてきましたら詳細はこのホームページ上でお伝えいたしますのでご確認ください。

プレゼンテーションを現在募集中です！締め切りは4月4日です。企画書提出の際にいただいた情報はこのイベントの目的のみで使われます。　何か質問がございましたら　osakajalt@gmail.com までいつでもご連絡ください。

参加費は無料です。皆さんのカレンダーの５月９日（日）（母の日ですね！）にしるしをつけてください。このイベントを宣伝して、企画書を提出して、そしていくつかのあるいは全部のセッションにご参加ください！きっと素敵な一日になりますよ！

2021年5月9日（日）9:30a.m. ～ 9:30p.m.

大阪

発表者：後日発表します。

連絡先および質問：osakajalt@gmail.comまでメールをお願いします。

イベントのテーマ：年に一度春に開催されるミニ会議です。