This is an archive of all of the past events of Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.
Integrating Intercultural Communication in the University Language Classroom
Tomoko Yoshida
Developing Student-led Small Group Discussion of Student-Selected and Developed Video Content
Kevin Ryan
Drama-Based Activities in the Mixed-Ability Japanese EFL Classroom
Eucharia Donnery
Presentations 2.0: Modern Presentation Skills for the Digital Age
Rab Paterson (Toyo University)
Raising Bilingual Children
Mary Nobuoka
How To Enhance Intercultural Competence In Japanese Primary School English Classes
Natsue Nakayama (Bunkyo University)
Simple Activities to Engage Students
Aleda Krause
Classes for Low Level Learners: Management Techniques and Classroom Methods
Asako Kajiura (Niigata University of Rehabilitation)
Exploring Motivation with Students
Richard Sampson (Gunma University)
Improving Pronunciation through an Applied Drama Project
Samuel Nfor
Insights from NeuroELT for you and your Classroom
Steve Jugovic
4th Annual MyShare Event
Share your ideas
Getting into the Zone (of Proximal Literacy Development)
Anna Husson Isozaki
The 28th Annual JALT Gunma Summer Workshop in Ikaho
Yasushi Sekiya, Antonija Cavcic, Hideto D. Harashim, Daniel Hooper, Yoshimi Ochiai
Adapting Kagan structures for Japanese secondary school English classes. Part 1: The three-step interview
Lee Thomas and Kayvon Havaei-Ahary
Developing a Writing Program in the High School and Junior High School Context
Stephen Howes
Gundoku Workshop: Integrating a Performing Art into Foreign Language Education
Yuka Kusanagi
Story-based approach: Exploring the world of stories with your young learners
Chiyuki Yanase
3rd Annual Saitama-Gunma MyShare Event
David Gann, Joel Laurier, John Larson, Ray Hoogenboom, Daniel Hooper and Jacob Reed
Accidental Teachers: The Journeys of Six Japanese Women from the Corporate Workplace into English Language Teaching
Reiko Yoshihara
My Share: Saitama presenting in Gunma
Jonathan DeNardis, Sandra Wigmore and Florence Ito Valderama, Mark Deadman
Exploring Critical Thinking with my Students
Nicole Gallagher
Exploratory Practice
Alison Stewart
Using Facebook to Enhance Motivation
Christopher Philip Madden
JALT Gunma / Gunma University Action Research Workshop
Anne Burns (University of New South Wales)
Using iPads and iPhones in the Classroom
Daniel Beck
Team Teaching in a Junior High School
Kaitlin Kirby, Chiharu Takebayashi
Exploring and Experiencing Online Materials for Second Language Learning and Teaching
Robert Habbick
Grammar Feedback in Writing Instruction: Beyond the Yes/No Debate
Paul Kei Matsuda
The 23rd JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu
William Grabe (Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics, NAU), Fredricka L. Stoller, Professor of English, NAU
Motivating Young Adult Learners to Communicate
Roberto Rabbini
Two MA TESL Graduation Project Reports: Motivation and Autonomy
Nagisa Haraguchi and Amy Ives
Classrooms are Alive with the Sound of Music
Stacey Vye
Cultural Perspectives and Influences of Teachers
Roehl Sybing
Using Literature Circles in a Content-Based Course
David Williams
Adaptation of CEFR to the English Curriculum in Japanese Higher Education
Noriko Nagai, Ibaraki University
Designing a Themed Task-Based Syllabus
Marcos Benevides
How to Promote Reflection in Professional Development
Akiko Takagi
Creating and Maintaining Student Autonomy
Tomomi Katsuki
Once upon a time in an EFL classroom: Stories as a window to culture and language
Renee Sawazaki
Teaching Spanish in Japan
Maria Fernandez
From Research to Video Blog: A Final Project for Japanese University Students
John Spiri
Critical Approaches to Teaching Writing: Mindfulness and the power of "no"
Marlen Harrison
Validity and Validation of Language Tests
Rie Koizumi (Tokiwa University)
Kusatsu Summer Seminar, August 23-24
Main Kim Bradford-Watts, Kyoto Women's University
Bilingual Education in Asia
Jason Good
Exploring Portfolio Assessment in the EFL Classroom
Steve Quasha
Developing 4 Skills of Language Acquisition with Picture Books and Stories
Naoko McLellan
The New TOEIC (r): Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges
Grant True
TBA
Jeff Contreras, Gunma University
Stories to Heal the World
Charles Kowalski
More Community and Motivation through Coloring
Miori Shimada
Teaching Liaison (Blends) to Enhance Listening Skills/Responsive Skills
Asha Van Nimmen
Multimedia Showcase in the Age of Web 2.0
Hideto D. Harashima
19th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu, Day 1
Main Lecturer: Alister Cumming, OISE/University of Toronto
19th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu, Day 2
Main Lecturer; Alister Cumming, OISE/University of Toronto: Invited Speaker; Razika Sanaoui, University of Toronto
Students as Editors: Using Online Concordancers
Stephen Jennings
Teaching International Relations through English: Can It Be Done?
Leo Yoffe, Lecturer, Waseda University
English Immersion in Japan
Eugene Cooper
Ecotourism and the Environment: Concepts, Definitions and Diagrams
Paul Cunningham, Rikkyo University
Feminist Pedagogy in the ESL/EFL Classroom
Reiko Yoshihara
Corpus informed materials: A new era in language teaching
John Letcher, Cambridge University Press ELT Representative
Assessing English Proficiency by Computer: Call Software and Prosody Analysis
Hiroyuki Obari, Aoyama Gakuin University
Creating Campus Community: Global Issues and Experiential Learning
Janell Pekkain, Sundai College of Foreign Languages
The 18th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (Day 1 of the Two-day Event)
Main William Grabe, Northern Arizona University
Use of Literacy Autobiographies in Narrative: A Reflection on Biliteracy Development
Yutaka Fujieda, Kyoai Gakuen College
Using Cooperative Learning in Your Classroom
David Schneer
Journalistic Feature Writing: A Bridge Between Elementary and Thesis Writing in University ESL Programs
Robin Antepara, Tsuda College
How is CLT viewed and implemented by high school teachers of English?
Rieko Nakajima
STEP goes international: Eiken USA and STEP BULATS
Todd Fouts and Martin Nuttall
News in the Classroom: Reading Activities with the Asahi Weekly
Barry Keith
Interactional Activities for Understanding Global Issues
Kazuya Asakawa
Media Literacy for Young Adults
Kathleen Riley
Improve Your Students' Communicative Competence with Person to Person
Karl O'Callaghan, OUP ELT Consultant
Electronic Dictionary vs. Paper Dictionary: How Differences in Dictionary Interfaces Affect English Language Learning
Natsue Nakayama
Enhancing Fluency in Writing for Beginner-Level Learners: Utilizing Paper and Computer
Atsushi Iino, Seisen Jogakuin College
Raising Children Bilingually & Biculturally in Japan
Frances Causer
Effects of Repetition on EFL Listening Comprehension: Development of a CALL System to Improve EFL Listening Comprehension Skills
Yutaka Yamauchi
Adapting Online Reading Materials
James Duggan
A Teaching Strategy: How to Develop Communicative Competence through Shadowing and L1
Atsuko Yamazaki, Kazuko Nomachi
A Way to Use Graded Readers Effectively and Extensively
Rie Iwahashi
Materials Development: Custom-Made Videos for Your Classes
Scott Berlin
JALT-Gunma 16th Kusatsu Summer Workshop (Day 1 of 2)
Main Speaker: Michael McCarthy
JALT-Gunma 16th Kusatsu Summer Workshop (Day 2 of 2)
Main Speaker: Michael McCarthy
Learner Opportunities Outside the Classroom
Ken Biegel
Creating a Textbook for the Teaching of English for Science and Technology
Tom Goodier, Nodai Niko High School
From competition to cooperation: Games in the EFL classroom
Chris Hunt
Listening Strategy Techniques: Does It Help To Teach Them?
Hiroko Tsujioka
DramaWorks Workshop
Marc Sheffner
Back to School Bonanza-Teaching Exchange
various speakers
Taking the Dialogue Out of the Textbook
Mark Frank
Academic Writing and Advancing English Language Learning: Criterion Online Writing Evaluation and LanguEdge Courseware: TOEFL 2005
Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska, Educational Testing Service/Temple University Japan
15th Gunma JALT Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (day 1 of 2)
Kip Cates and others
15th Gunma JALT Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (day 2 of 2)
Kip Cates and others
Cultures Alive! Multicultural Education for Children
Michele Milner
A Class Project: Collaborative Newsletters
Joyce Cunningham
Corpus Engine for Teachers
June Tateno
Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monkasho Handbook
Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
A Critical Thinking Approach to the Teaching of Debate and Public Speaking
Hiroshi Matsusaka, Waseda University
Back to School Bonanza! Teaching ideas, materials exchange and BBQ dinner.
various speakers
A Distance Learning Workshop about the TALK Learning System
Josef Messerklinger and Johann Junge
Scholastic: Children's Books Supporting All Learners
Kumiko Takahashi and Kazue Mori
Summer Workshop at Kusatsu: Activating Language Activities in the Classroom (day 1 of 2)
Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin Univiversity
Summer Workshop at Kusatsu: Activating Language Activities in the Classroom (day 2 of 2)
Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin University
Teaching College English Through TV Commercials
Fujita Tomoko and Karen McGee
Starting Out Right with SuperTots
Aleda Krause, author of SuperKids and SuperTots
Baby Warrior and Issun Boshi
Kim Eung-gyo, Waseda University
Graded Readers: Reading Extensively Beyond the Classroom
Jeffrey Herman, Oxford University Press
Hot Rods: Using Cuisenaire Rods to Promote Conversation
Larry Cisar, Kanto Gakuen University
Computer-based TOEFL: Are You Prepared?
Andrew Tope, Pearson Education Japan
Forty Years of Teaching English in Japan: Progress or Stasis
C. Lee Colegrove
How to Develop Confidence in English Pronunciation
Takashi Shimaoka
Summer Workshop: Standard Speaking Test 1, 2 (day 1 of 2)
Mervyn Lewis as main speaker
Summer Workshop: Standard Speaking Test 1, 2 (day 2 of 2)
Mervyn Lewis as main speaker
Getting Students to Express Themselves
Derek Mackrell, Thomson Learning
What's this action research all about then?
Neil Cowie, Ethel Ogane
Beyond Intuition: Getting Started in Action Research
Anne Burns, Macquarie University in Australia