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 to bring the theory and research of sociolinguistics into the actual classroom. In this series of concurrent sessions, MA students enrolled in sociolinguistics at Akita International University will present practical lessons that can bridge the concepts and theories associated with sociolinguistics with actual classroom teaching. In their lesson plans, students must focus on one of the sociolinguistic concepts covered in class, such as language and gender, language ideologies, learner identities, language variation etc. There will be two concurrent sessions of approximately 25 minutes each, and participants will be free to move between ongoing presentations

Date Saturday July 29th, 2023

Starting at 2 pm

Online event

(Zoom – Akita JALT members with be sent a Zoom link for the presentation)

All others who would like to join can send an email to: akita@jalt.org and the zoom link will be given.