Event

A Conceptual Toolkit for Language Teaching Practitioners: Applications in the Japanese Context

Saturday, December 16th, 2023, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Eoin Jordan (University of St Andrews)

(Please note the earlier starting time for our event; we're starting at 3 PM to leave time in the evening for our Bonenkai, or end of year party)

This presentation will provide an overview of a recently released online resource, the Conceptual Toolkit for Language Teaching Practitioners (ctltp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk), with a particular focus on aspects of the resource that are relevant to the language teaching context in Japan. The session will provide background on why the resource was developed, the choice of delivery format, and how it is intended to help teachers of any language to enhance their teaching practice. It will also explore the five concepts covered in the toolkit (language, dynamicity, ideology, decolonisation, and identity), extrapolating key points of consideration for language teaching practitioners in Japan.

Bio:
Eoin Jordan has held a variety of teaching, administrative, leadership, external examiner/reviewer, and consultancy roles related to language teaching and assessment since beginning his career in this area in 2001. He has worked in Japan, Hungary, China and the UK, including as Acting Director of the Language Centre at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and currently as Director of the International Education Institute at University of St Andrews. He holds an EdD in Higher Education, an MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching, a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), and is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is the lead developer of a range of online tools designed to aid users of English as an additional language with academic writing in English (www.readingandwritingtools.com), host and co-creator of the online Conceptual Toolkit for Language Teaching Practitioners (ctltp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk), and has published and presented in the following areas of research and professional interest: vocabulary acquisition and testing; peer assessment; automated writing evaluation; educational technologies; English as a Lingua Franca and World Englishes. As well as being a language teacher, Eoin is also an enthusiastic language learner -- he has studied Japanese to an advanced level, and Chinese to an intermediate level.

Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Fukuoka JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus), back entrance, map: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 Near Tenjin-Minami Station on the Nanakuma Subway Line

Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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