Gunma JALT Archive

This is an archive of all of the past events of Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.

May 19th (Sunday) 2024
Online Text Reconstruction Exercises and Metadiscourse Markers Use
Speaker: David Gann (Tokyo University of Science)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

March 24th (Sunday) 2024
Gunma JALT Materials Exchange
Speaker: any participant
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

June 9th (Sunday) 2019
Tech it from us!
Speaker: Kayvon Havaei-Ahary and Jason Demsteader
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 19th (Sunday) 2019
Managing Special Needs Students in the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Jennifer Yphantides (Soka University)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 27th (Sunday) 2019
Navigating the Discussion of "Challenging" Topics in High School and University English Classes
Speaker: Marian Hara
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 11th (Sunday) 2018
Classes for Low Level Learners: Management Techniques and Classroom Methods
Speaker: Asako Kajiura (Niigata University of Rehabilitation)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 5th (Sunday) 2018
Simple Activities to Engage Students
Speaker: Aleda Krause
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

July 8th (Sunday) 2018
How To Enhance Intercultural Competence In Japanese Primary School English Classes
Speaker: Natsue Nakayama (Bunkyo University)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2018
Raising Bilingual Children
Speaker: Mary Nobuoka
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 27th (Sunday) 2018
Presentations 2.0: Modern Presentation Skills for the Digital Age
Speaker: Rab Paterson (Toyo University)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 1st (Sunday) 2018
Drama-Based Activities in the Mixed-Ability Japanese EFL Classroom
Speaker: Eucharia Donnery
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2018
Developing Student-led Small Group Discussion of Student-Selected and Developed Video Content
Speaker: Kevin Ryan
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 21st (Sunday) 2018
Integrating Intercultural Communication in the University Language Classroom
Speaker: Tomoko Yoshida
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 12th (Sunday) 2017
Developing a Writing Program in the High School and Junior High School Context
Speaker: Stephen Howes
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 15th (Sunday) 2017
Adapting Kagan structures for Japanese secondary school English classes. Part 1: The three-step interview
Speaker: Lee Thomas and Kayvon Havaei-Ahary
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 9th (Saturday) 2017
The 28th Annual JALT Gunma Summer Workshop in Ikaho
Speaker: Yasushi Sekiya, Antonija Cavcic, Hideto D. Harashim, Daniel Hooper, Yoshimi Ochiai
Location: Ikaho Town, Gunma Prefecture

July 16th (Sunday) 2017
Getting into the Zone (of Proximal Literacy Development)
Speaker: Anna Husson Isozaki
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 14th (Sunday) 2017
4th Annual MyShare Event
Speaker: Share your ideas
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 23rd (Sunday) 2017
Insights from NeuroELT for you and your Classroom
Speaker: Steve Jugovic
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 12th (Sunday) 2017
Improving Pronunciation through an Applied Drama Project
Speaker: Samuel Nfor
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 22nd (Sunday) 2017
Exploring Motivation with Students
Speaker: Richard Sampson (Gunma University)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 23rd (Sunday) 2016
JALT Gunma / Gunma University Action Research Workshop
Speaker: Anne Burns (University of New South Wales)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 9th (Sunday) 2016
Using Facebook to Enhance Motivation
Speaker: Christopher Philip Madden
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

July 24th (Sunday) 2016
Exploratory Practice
Speaker: Alison Stewart
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 26th (Sunday) 2016
Exploring Critical Thinking with my Students
Speaker: Nicole Gallagher
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 29th (Sunday) 2016
My Share: Saitama presenting in Gunma
Speaker: Jonathan DeNardis, Sandra Wigmore and Florence Ito Valderama, Mark Deadman
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 3rd (Sunday) 2016
Accidental Teachers: The Journeys of Six Japanese Women from the Corporate Workplace into English Language Teaching
Speaker: Reiko Yoshihara
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

March 20th (Sunday) 2016
Vernal Equinox Day (Shunbun-no-hi)
3rd Annual Saitama-Gunma MyShare Event
Speaker: David Gann, Joel Laurier, John Larson, Ray Hoogenboom, Daniel Hooper and Jacob Reed
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture

February 28th (Sunday) 2016
Story-based approach: Exploring the world of stories with your young learners
Speaker: Chiyuki Yanase
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 24th (Sunday) 2016
Gundoku Workshop: Integrating a Performing Art into Foreign Language Education
Speaker: Yuka Kusanagi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 14th (Sunday) 2013
First Ever Omiya/Gunma JALT My Share Collaboration - Part 2
Speaker: Michelle Williams, Atsushi Iida, Robert Rowland, Masa Tsuneyasu, Ivan Botev
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 18th (Saturday) 2012
The 23rd JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu
Speaker: William Grabe (Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics, NAU), Fredricka L. Stoller, Professor of English, NAU
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

June 17th (Sunday) 2012
Grammar Feedback in Writing Instruction: Beyond the Yes/No Debate
Speaker: Paul Kei Matsuda
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 2nd (Saturday) 2012
Nakasendo Conference 2012: Using English
Speaker: Garr Reynolds, plus many more
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2012
Exploring and Experiencing Online Materials for Second Language Learning and Teaching
Speaker: Robert Habbick
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 15th (Sunday) 2012
Team Teaching in a Junior High School
Speaker: Kaitlin Kirby, Chiharu Takebayashi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 26th (Sunday) 2012
Using iPads and iPhones in the Classroom
Speaker: Daniel Beck
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 27th (Sunday) 2011
How to Include Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Speaker: Jennie Roloff Rothman
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 23rd (Sunday) 2011
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Culture
Speaker: Rene Sawazaki
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 4th (Sunday) 2011
Using Conflict Resolution Techniques for Language Learning
Speaker: Chris Stillwell
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 31st (Sunday) 2010
How to Promote Reflection in Professional Development
Speaker: Akiko Takagi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 26th (Sunday) 2010
Designing a Themed Task-Based Syllabus
Speaker: Marcos Benevides
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

July 18th (Sunday) 2010
Adaptation of CEFR to the English Curriculum in Japanese Higher Education
Speaker: Noriko Nagai, Ibaraki University
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 13th (Sunday) 2010
Using Literature Circles in a Content-Based Course
Speaker: David Williams
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2010
Cultural Perspectives and Influences of Teachers
Speaker: Roehl Sybing
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 18th (Sunday) 2010
Classrooms are Alive with the Sound of Music
Speaker: Stacey Vye
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 28th (Sunday) 2010
Two MA TESL Graduation Project Reports: Motivation and Autonomy
Speaker: Nagisa Haraguchi and Amy Ives
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 31st (Sunday) 2010
Motivating Young Adult Learners to Communicate
Speaker: Roberto Rabbini
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 25th (Sunday) 2009
Trust Matters
Speaker: Dexter Da Silva
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 8th (Saturday) 2008
Developing 4 Skills of Language Acquisition with Picture Books and Stories
Speaker: Naoko McLellan
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 26th (Sunday) 2008
Exploring Portfolio Assessment in the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Steve Quasha
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 21st (Sunday) 2008
Bilingual Education in Asia
Speaker: Jason Good
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 23rd (Saturday) 2008
Kusatsu Summer Seminar, August 23-24
Speaker: Main Kim Bradford-Watts, Kyoto Women's University
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

July 20th (Sunday) 2008
Validity and Validation of Language Tests
Speaker: Rie Koizumi (Tokiwa University)
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 7th (Saturday) 2008
Critical Approaches to Teaching Writing: Mindfulness and the power of "no"
Speaker: Marlen Harrison
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

May 18th (Sunday) 2008
From Research to Video Blog: A Final Project for Japanese University Students
Speaker: John Spiri
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 27th (Sunday) 2008
Teaching Spanish in Japan
Speaker: Maria Fernandez
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 24th (Sunday) 2008
Once upon a time in an EFL classroom: Stories as a window to culture and language
Speaker: Renee Sawazaki
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 27th (Sunday) 2008
Creating and Maintaining Student Autonomy
Speaker: Tomomi Katsuki
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 11th (Sunday) 2007
Teaching International Relations through English: Can It Be Done?
Speaker: Leo Yoffe, Lecturer, Waseda University
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 30th (Sunday) 2007
Students as Editors: Using Online Concordancers
Speaker: Stephen Jennings
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 26th (Sunday) 2007
19th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu, Day 2
Speaker: Main Lecturer; Alister Cumming, OISE/University of Toronto: Invited Speaker; Razika Sanaoui, University of Toronto
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

August 25th (Saturday) 2007
19th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu, Day 1
Speaker: Main Lecturer: Alister Cumming, OISE/University of Toronto
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

July 22nd (Sunday) 2007
Multimedia Showcase in the Age of Web 2.0
Speaker: Hideto D. Harashima
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 24th (Sunday) 2007
Teaching Liaison (Blends) to Enhance Listening Skills/Responsive Skills
Speaker: Asha Van Nimmen
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 27th (Sunday) 2007
More Community and Motivation through Coloring
Speaker: Miori Shimada
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 22nd (Sunday) 2007
Stories to Heal the World
Speaker: Charles Kowalski
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2007
TBA
Speaker: Jeff Contreras, Gunma University
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 28th (Sunday) 2007
The New TOEIC (r): Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges
Speaker: Grant True
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 26th (Sunday) 2006
Journalistic Feature Writing: A Bridge Between Elementary and Thesis Writing in University ESL Programs
Speaker: Robin Antepara, Tsuda College
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 29th (Sunday) 2006
Using Cooperative Learning in Your Classroom
Speaker: David Schneer
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 17th (Sunday) 2006
Use of Literacy Autobiographies in Narrative: A Reflection on Biliteracy Development
Speaker: Yutaka Fujieda, Kyoai Gakuen College
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 26th (Saturday) 2006
The 18th JALT-Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (Day 1 of the Two-day Event)
Speaker: Main William Grabe, Northern Arizona University
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

July 2nd (Sunday) 2006
Creating Campus Community: Global Issues and Experiential Learning
Speaker: Janell Pekkain, Sundai College of Foreign Languages
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 18th (Sunday) 2006
Assessing English Proficiency by Computer: Call Software and Prosody Analysis
Speaker: Hiroyuki Obari, Aoyama Gakuin University
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 21st (Sunday) 2006
Corpus informed materials: A new era in language teaching
Speaker: John Letcher, Cambridge University Press ELT Representative
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 23rd (Sunday) 2006
Feminist Pedagogy in the ESL/EFL Classroom
Speaker: Reiko Yoshihara
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 19th (Sunday) 2006
Ecotourism and the Environment: Concepts, Definitions and Diagrams
Speaker: Paul Cunningham, Rikkyo University
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 15th (Sunday) 2006
English Immersion in Japan
Speaker: Eugene Cooper
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 20th (Sunday) 2005
Enhancing Fluency in Writing for Beginner-Level Learners: Utilizing Paper and Computer
Speaker: Atsushi Iino, Seisen Jogakuin College
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 23rd (Sunday) 2005
Electronic Dictionary vs. Paper Dictionary: How Differences in Dictionary Interfaces Affect English Language Learning
Speaker: Natsue Nakayama
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 25th (Sunday) 2005
Improve Your Students' Communicative Competence with Person to Person
Speaker: Karl O'Callaghan, OUP ELT Consultant
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

July 17th (Sunday) 2005
Media Literacy for Young Adults
Speaker: Kathleen Riley
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 19th (Sunday) 2005
Interactional Activities for Understanding Global Issues
Speaker: Kazuya Asakawa
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 22nd (Sunday) 2005
News in the Classroom: Reading Activities with the Asahi Weekly
Speaker: Barry Keith
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 24th (Sunday) 2005
STEP goes international: Eiken USA and STEP BULATS
Speaker: Todd Fouts and Martin Nuttall
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 27th (Sunday) 2005
How is CLT viewed and implemented by high school teachers of English?
Speaker: Rieko Nakajima
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 28th (Sunday) 2004
From competition to cooperation: Games in the EFL classroom
Speaker: Chris Hunt
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 31st (Sunday) 2004
Creating a Textbook for the Teaching of English for Science and Technology
Speaker: Tom Goodier, Nodai Niko High School
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 12th (Sunday) 2004
Learner Opportunities Outside the Classroom
Speaker: Ken Biegel
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 23rd (Monday) 2004
JALT-Gunma 16th Kusatsu Summer Workshop (Day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Main Speaker: Michael McCarthy
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

August 22nd (Sunday) 2004
JALT-Gunma 16th Kusatsu Summer Workshop (Day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Main Speaker: Michael McCarthy
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

July 18th (Sunday) 2004
Materials Development: Custom-Made Videos for Your Classes
Speaker: Scott Berlin
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

June 20th (Sunday) 2004
A Way to Use Graded Readers Effectively and Extensively
Speaker: Rie Iwahashi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2004
A Teaching Strategy: How to Develop Communicative Competence through Shadowing and L1
Speaker: Atsuko Yamazaki, Kazuko Nomachi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 25th (Sunday) 2004
Adapting Online Reading Materials
Speaker: James Duggan
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 22nd (Sunday) 2004
Effects of Repetition on EFL Listening Comprehension: Development of a CALL System to Improve EFL Listening Comprehension Skills
Speaker: Yutaka Yamauchi
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 25th (Sunday) 2004
Raising Children Bilingually & Biculturally in Japan
Speaker: Frances Causer
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

November 9th (Sunday) 2003
Corpus Engine for Teachers
Speaker: June Tateno
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 26th (Sunday) 2003
A Class Project: Collaborative Newsletters
Speaker: Joyce Cunningham
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

September 21st (Sunday) 2003
Cultures Alive! Multicultural Education for Children
Speaker: Michele Milner
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 24th (Sunday) 2003
15th Gunma JALT Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Kip Cates and others
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

August 23rd (Saturday) 2003
15th Gunma JALT Summer Workshop at Kusatsu (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Kip Cates and others
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

July 13th (Sunday) 2003
Academic Writing and Advancing English Language Learning: Criterion Online Writing Evaluation and LanguEdge Courseware: TOEFL 2005
Speaker: Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska, Educational Testing Service/Temple University Japan
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

June 22nd (Sunday) 2003
Taking the Dialogue Out of the Textbook
Speaker: Mark Frank
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 20th (Sunday) 2003
Back to School Bonanza-Teaching Exchange
Speaker: various speakers
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 16th (Sunday) 2003
DramaWorks Workshop
Speaker: Marc Sheffner
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

January 26th (Sunday) 2003
Listening Strategy Techniques: Does It Help To Teach Them?
Speaker: Hiroko Tsujioka
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 20th (Sunday) 2002
Starting Out Right with SuperTots
Speaker: Aleda Krause, author of SuperKids and SuperTots
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

September 22nd (Sunday) 2002
Teaching College English Through TV Commercials
Speaker: Fujita Tomoko and Karen McGee
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

August 25th (Sunday) 2002
Summer Workshop at Kusatsu: Activating Language Activities in the Classroom (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin University
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

August 24th (Saturday) 2002
Summer Workshop at Kusatsu: Activating Language Activities in the Classroom (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin Univiversity
Location: Kusatsu City, Gunma Prefecture

June 23rd (Sunday) 2002
Scholastic: Children's Books Supporting All Learners
Speaker: Kumiko Takahashi and Kazue Mori
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

May 19th (Sunday) 2002
A Distance Learning Workshop about the TALK Learning System
Speaker: Josef Messerklinger and Johann Junge
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

April 21st (Sunday) 2002
Back to School Bonanza! Teaching ideas, materials exchange and BBQ dinner.
Speaker: various speakers
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2002
A Critical Thinking Approach to the Teaching of Debate and Public Speaking
Speaker: Hiroshi Matsusaka, Waseda University
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

January 27th (Sunday) 2002
Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monkasho Handbook
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

November 18th (Sunday) 2001
Beyond Intuition: Getting Started in Action Research
Speaker: Anne Burns, Macquarie University in Australia
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

October 21st (Sunday) 2001
What's this action research all about then?
Speaker: Neil Cowie, Ethel Ogane
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

September 30th (Sunday) 2001
Getting Students to Express Themselves
Speaker: Derek Mackrell, Thomson Learning
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

August 26th (Sunday) 2001
Summer Workshop: Standard Speaking Test 1, 2 (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Mervyn Lewis as main speaker
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

August 25th (Saturday) 2001
Summer Workshop: Standard Speaking Test 1, 2 (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Mervyn Lewis as main speaker
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

July 22nd (Sunday) 2001
How to Develop Confidence in English Pronunciation
Speaker: Takashi Shimaoka
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2001
Forty Years of Teaching English in Japan: Progress or Stasis
Speaker: C. Lee Colegrove
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2001
Computer-based TOEFL: Are You Prepared?
Speaker: Andrew Tope, Pearson Education Japan
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

April 15th (Sunday) 2001
Hot Rods: Using Cuisenaire Rods to Promote Conversation
Speaker: Larry Cisar, Kanto Gakuen University
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2001
Graded Readers: Reading Extensively Beyond the Classroom
Speaker: Jeffrey Herman, Oxford University Press
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture

January 14th (Sunday) 2001
Baby Warrior and Issun Boshi
Speaker: Kim Eung-gyo, Waseda University
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture