Sendai JALT:

Taboo Language for EFL

Date: Sunday, July 26th, 2020 Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Jennifer Green

Description:
We all remember when starting to study another language, the giggly moment when you learn a "bad word". The excitement, the laughter, but often not thinking anything beyond what situations you would actually hear or use such words in. For learners in Japan, taboo language use in English may be particularly difficult to understand due to multiple factors. Let's start a discussion on what taboo language means for English, the language classroom in Japan, and how it should be approached there, if at all.

Speaker Biography: Ready to take on any topic with her students, Jennifer Green has been pushing the boundaries of regular classroom discussions while teaching during her five years as an educator of English in Japan. Currently teaching at Tohoku Foreign Language and Tourism College and in her final stage of graduate studies at the University of Oxford, she is researching taboo language in English as is heard and used in Japan in hopes to understand how learners come across this language and what strategies are used to learn it.

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

Cost: free

Venue: Online (registration)

Location: Online, Online Events, Online Event

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