Next event: Sept 6
Next event: Sept 6
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Details below! Non-members are welcome to attend for a small entrance fee. Afterwards, we go out to a nearby pub for socializing and professional networking.
JALT Research Grant Applications due Oct 5
JALT Research Grant Applications due Oct 5
Each year, JALT awards up to three grants for a maximum of 100,000 yen each for research on language teaching in Japan. Only JALT members who have no outside funding sources for research are eligible to apply.
JALT Annual International Conference
JALT Annual International Conference
October 31 - November 2, 2025, National Olympics Youth Memorial Center, Tokyo
Note that unlike previous years, the Friday will be a full day of presentations!
This is JALT's 50th anniversary, so it's going to be something special!
Details: https://events.jalt.org/event/37/
Next event: September 6, 2025
Next event: September 6, 2025
Title: Creating A 4-skills E-learning Curriculum: Challenges and Accomplishments
Title: Creating A 4-skills E-learning Curriculum: Challenges and Accomplishments
Speakers: Shizuka Sakurai (Tohoku University) & Ryan Spring (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education)
Speakers: Shizuka Sakurai (Tohoku University) & Ryan Spring (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education)
Saturday, September 6th, 2025, 18:00-20:00 (6PM-8PM) in person and online
Abstract:
Tohoku University began an e-learning course for its 2nd-year students in 2023. In 2024, we majorly overhauled the system, implementing speaking, listening, and AI-chat via EnglishCentral and handling reading and writing through our original website. The website helps students know when assignments are due, provides reading and writing, and has lots of other useful information for the course. This presentation will outline the course objectives, learning methods, and materials development, as well as the collaboration with EnglishCentral and an on-campus researcher. In 2024, we noted that students wanted more writing feedback, so we revamped our system. Positive points, challenges, and future directions are discussed.
Bio:
Shizuka Sakurai is a professor at Tohoku University and Associate Director of the Center for Culture and Language Education. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University and has taught Japanese at universities in the U.S., as well as English in Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Sendai. Her research focuses on academic listening, note-taking skills, and the development of EFL listening materials.
Ryan Spring received his PhD from Tohoku University where he is now a professor in the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education. His research interests include human-AI integration in linguistics and language education, objective measures of L2 production, phrasal verbs, visual media in EFL, and cognitive linguistics. He currently serves as Co-editor of TESL-EJ and President of ATEM.
Location: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus room; go in the back entrance shown on the map). From Hakata, take the Nanakuma Subway Line to Tenjin-Minami Station, exit 4. If you haven't been to this location before, please note that the entrance is NOT through the department store, it is around the back from the department store entrances, here: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 (You'll find this by Googling エルガーラ オフィス棟).
Online: Zoom room opens at 05:45 PM (Japan time)
https://testkindai.zoom.us/j/91529561444?pwd=KT87iQnBOcPjt6C6lgKKtcNXPYjA9V.1
Meeting ID: 915 2956 1444
Passcode: 522353
About us:
About us:
Fukuoka JALT is a chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), an NPO that is dedicated to promoting excellence in language learning, teaching, and research by providing opportunities for those involved in language education to meet, share, and collaborate.
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