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 […]
Category Archives: Monthly Chapter Events
The Akita Chapter of JALT holds events monthly, usually hosting a guest speaker or panel discussion.
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 […]
(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 […]
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