AKITA – September 2013 –Hard Pressed to Succeed without Soft Skills? – Sarah Louisa Birchley, Toyo Gakuen University. Ideally, university students should learn the skills indispensable for business success before they […]

AKITA – July 2013 – Designing supplemental materials to study American culture through literature – Philip L. McCasland, Fukushima University. Creating engaging, authentic, quality classroom materials completely from scratch proves challenging for […]

AKITA – June 2013 – Facilitating written feedback on students’ writing — Rachael Ruegg, Akita International University. Teachers of writing often wonder when to give feedback, how to give it, […]

AKITA – May 2013 – Motivating students by talking about novels – Mamoru “Bobby” Takahashi and Stephen Shucart, Akita Prefectural University. Experts say that students read more graded readers (GR) […]

This summary is taken from the April 2013 chapter report as produced by Stephen Shucart, Recording Secretary of Akita-JALT. Christine Winskowski – ONLINE TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: This presentation […]

Here is information for the December 2012 Akita-JALT meeting.  Want some tips and tactics about vocabulary acquisition and usage,  and ways to teach it come on down to Join Us. […]

November 24th – Cory Koby of Sendai Shirayuri Gakuen Jr./Sr. High School, and 2012 JALT Conference Review Title: English Debate in Japanese High School Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PM Place: JOIN US […]

This September Akita-JALT will host Kathy Kampa, co-author of Oxford University Press’ Magic Time.  Here are the details: Date: Saturday, September 29th, 2012 Title: The M&M’s of Teaching English to […]

July 2012 Akita-JALT presentation – Motivating communities of practice for teachers by Joe Falout of Nihon University Even the most motivated teachers can at some point feel the classic symptoms of burnout. […]

Hello All watching and reading.  Just 2 quick messages to chew on – one about this month’s meeting, and the other about last month’s: 1) July’s meeting will see Joseph Falout […]