Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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This joint JALT / Apple Store Workshop will introduce iCloud. The presenter will demonstrate how iCloud stores, syncs, and shares music, pictures, documents, calendars, apps, contacts and mails across multiple devices.
Spaces are limited to 14 attendees, so please contact Kate early to reserve your spot.
The newly formed Vocabulary SIG will be holding its first Vocabulary Symposium on March 3rd, 2012 at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka. This full day of presentations will include panel discussions from a variety of top names in vocabulary acquisition in Japan.
This presentation will cover the current state of the e-book industry, the pluses and minuses of publishing electronically, as well as the nuts and bolts of publishing and promoting your works.
Aonghas Crowe is a writer, blogger, translator, and teacher. He has been working for Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University Junior College since 2011.
Not many of us are teacher trainers in technology, but many of us have introduced new technology to our colleagues or students. How do we help teachers and students to become more independent users of technology? How to we introduce technology to the wary or uninterested so that the technology is adopted rather than neglected or even rejected?
This presentation will deal with the establishment and management of independent language schools. Topics that will be dealt with include: 1. The process of establishing a school, renting of new premises, purchasing of teaching equipment, financing and brand development; 2. Sales and marketing, different methods of student recruitment, web pages, flyers and advertisements; 3.
This presentation examines the development of English and Japanese academic writing ability among Japanese EFL writers. The presenter will share results of a long-term, multi-stage research project involving participants at various levels of language and writing proficiency, ranging from high school to post-graduate writers in L1 and L2, most recently adding L3 (Chinese, French or Spanish).
Kitakyushu JALT will be hosting our second PechaKucha night involving a variety of presentations to do with classroom learning and teaching. There will be 6 - 8 presenters who will each take turns presenting their chosen topic using only 20 slides for 20 seconds each.
In the digital age, rapid developments in information and communication technologies are having a dramatic impact on the way that information is processed, how knowledge is produced, and how learning occurs.
This presentation discusses the role of task complexity for developing L2 speaking skills in terms of fluency, accuracy and complexity.
The talk will discuss research on what fluency in speaking English is, how it can be developed, and how much time is required to develop it. The talk will combine research results and examples.
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