Akita JALT March: Meet and Greet
Our next Akita JALT monthly meeting will be held on March 21st at 2:00 PM via Zoom. This month’s gathering will serve as a special meet-and-greet as we welcome our […]
December Akita Jalt Meeting- GRAD STUDENT POSTER SESSION: CLASSROOM-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
We are once again privileged to have Dr. Hale and his students for our December meeting. December 13, 2025 (SAT) Time: 14:00–15:00 Venue: Akita International University (RM: D103) This poster […]
November presentation:
“From Comparison to Integration: Exploring Hybrid FeedbackModels in EFL Speaking Instruction” Presenter: HUANG MENGQI Bio: Huang Mengqi, born and raised in Shanghai, is currently a PhDstudent at Yamaguchi University, enrolled […]
Akita JALT September: From IUHW to Akita: Advancing Medical Interpreting and English Education By Dr. Mieko Sakamoto
The presenter talks about her teaching experience at the previous university, theInternational University of Health and Welfare (IUHW). In the presentation, the past twoclasses are mainly introduced: 1) Medical Interpreting […]
Akita JALT July Meeting GRAD STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: INTEGRATING CONCEPTS FROM SOCIOLINGUISTICS INTO LESSON PLANS
July 13, 2025 Time: 11:00– 12:15 (about) Venue: AIU D-Building Thanks to Dr. Hale and his students for sharing their work with Akita JALT. Bio: This presentation showcases ten classroom […]
Akita JALT Meeting (In Person): Teaching listening from top-down to bottom-up
Presented By Marc Jones AbstractListening has been termed a “Cinderella skill” (Vandergrift, 1997) that is frequently tested but rarely taught, and which is infrequently researched in comparison to reading, speaking […]
May 2025 Presentation: Deciphering Underlying Sentiment: Visualizing Covert Propensities Using Text Mining Methods
By: Sarina Sugawara An attempt to visualize and quantify the qualitative data. This will serve as a preliminary project for the authors’ forthcoming JALT research project scheduled for fall 2025. The […]
Toward understanding the Emotional Intelligence (EI) of Japanese EFL Learners and why it’s Important
Speaker: Jason Tacker (This is a better, more refined version of the previous presentation from JALT 2024) Abstract For many but not all instructors, we do not often have the […]
March 22nd Akita Jalt Speaker- Kate Armstrong: The Impact of Gestures on Enhancing Student Learning
Gestures play a vital yet often overlooked role in language teaching. This session will explore how teachers use hand and arm movements during their lessons and the impact these gestures […]
(Akita JALT December Meeting) GRAD STUDENT POSTER SESSION: CLASSROOM-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
December 15, 2024 (SUN)Time: 14:00–15:00 Venue: Akita International University (RM: D103) Dr. Hale and his students from Akita International University. Bio: This poster session will feature ten original classroom-based discourse […]
Potential inequalities in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs in Madrid, Spain. – Natalia Evnitskaya
Abstract I will present a study on potential inequalities in Content and Language IntegratedLearning (CLIL) programs in Madrid (Spain), where students from grades 7 to 12 aredivided into two strands […]
September Akita Jalt Meeting: Can Virtual Reality be Used in the L2 for Positive Transfer of Skills from an Intensive English Environment to Reality?
Presenter: Jason Tacker AbstractThis study meant to add to the literature on virtual reality use in EFL education,examined the feasibility of using virtual reality in an L2 as a tool to positively transferskills from virtual reality to a real-world […]
Akita JALT Meeting for July 20th: Strategic Interactions in the Language Classroom
Presented by Martin Sedaghat Role-play activities are commonly used in communicative EFL/ESL classrooms to practice speaking skills in a variety of situations. However, most role-plays are heavily scripted and do […]
Akita/AIU JALT Presentations June 2024 -Teaching English in Higher Education
Dr. Hale of Akita International University and his students will be giving presentations on June 22nd. The plan is to have three concurrent presentations going in three separate rooms. Presentations […]
May 18th Presentation:Teaching Fluency Using the VerbalClassrooms Method
ABSTRACTAll teachers want their students to achieve higher levels of fluency, but how to teach it, andwhich classroom methods actually work? The presenter has been teaching fluency-basedspeaking classes for over […]
April 20th – Elements of Drama in the EFL Classroom: Featuring ChatGPT as the Bogeyman.
Eucharia Donnery (PhD) Abstract This online presentation-workshop aims to explore the potential of usingelements of structured Process Drama (PD) as a teaching approach in the Japaneseuniversity EFL classroom. The session […]
Language in the Field site: Producing Qualitative Research Data from Local Poetry
Speaker: Ben Grafstrom This presentation has two parts. In the first I share current trends that I have observed over the past year and a half in qualitative research, interdisciplinary […]
Akita December Meeting: GRAD STUDENT POSTER SESSION: CLASSROOM-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Bio: This poster session will feature ten original classroom-based discourse analyses conducted by graduate students in the English Language Teaching Practices (ELT) program at Akita International University (AIU). In their final […]
Yamasaki Aya – The effectiveness of integrating ICT and practical learning methods in technical college students’ learning motivation
理系大学のTOEICの授業における 自立英語学習支援の取り組み －学習方法，学習支援システム，語彙学習アプリを用いて－ 山﨑亜矢（YAMASAKI Aya） 高知工科大学 Abstract Motivation is crucial for learning a language. However, most non-English majors at university generally lack confidence in learning English because of their English […]
Akita JALT July: Sociolinguistics in the EFL Classroom: Teaching Ideas by AIU Graduate Students and Dr. Hale
Abstract: Sociolinguistics is a major area in second language research and is a topic commonly covered in graduate school education programs worldwide. For EFL teachers, it can often seem difficult […]
Akita Jalt presents our June speaker – Ken’ichi Yamazaki: An introduction of English-speaking extracurricular activities at a Japanese university
Bio: Ken’ichi Yamazaki is an associate professor at Akita Prefectural University, Japan. Hereceived his MA degree and PhD in English literature from Chiba University. Formerly, hewas working at Teikyo University. […]
Akita JALT and JALT CEFR Present: The CEFR – A tool for classroom management and teacher development
Date Saturday May 20th, 2023 Starting at 2 pm Title: The CEFR – A tool for classroom management and teacher development Online event (Zoom -Akita JALT members with be sent […]
April presentation brought to you by Akita JALT and JALT CALL: Amany Alkhayat – Collaborative Projects and Activities in VR and language learning
Bio: Amany Alkhayat is an adjunct faculty at New York Institute of Technology. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral degree in Instructional Technology and Media at Teachers College, Columbia University. […]
Cheating with Smart phones in Japanese EFL Classes
Akita JALT is pleased to welcome myself, Jason Tacker (Akita Prefectural University) as the guest speaker for the chapter’s March meeting. I gave this presentation three years back and wanted to revisit it thinking […]
GRAD STUDENT POSTER SESSION: CLASSROOM-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
December 17, 2022 Time: 12:30– [approximately] 1:35 Session I: 12:35–1:05 Session II: 1:05–1:35 Finish: 1:45 Venue: ZOOM (Emailed to all Akita JALT Members) – If you are not a member […]
A Global Citizenship Course: Teaching English Through Art (Maria Carlotta Avanzi)
Akita JALT is pleased to welcome Maria Carlotta Avanzi (Akita Prefectural University) as the guest speaker for the chapter’s October meeting. The details of her talk are below: Title: A Global Citizenship Course: […]
Graduate Student Reflections on their MA TESOL Program (multiple speakers)
July’s Akita chapter event will be a special presentation session featuring graduate students of Akita International University‘s MA TESOL Program. This is our 2nd time having such an event, and […]
Reddit—the ultimate tool for reading, writing and learning informal language in authentic context (Irina Kuznetcova)
Akita JALT is pleased to welcome Dr. Irina Kuznetcova (Akita International University) as the guest speaker for the chapter’s June meeting. The details of her talk are below: Title: Reddit—the […]
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