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Tag Archives: ESL

Akita Jalt Chapter’s May Presentation: What Intercultural Studies can tell us about the differences between Anglophone Cultures and Japan

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Intercultural Studies has emerged as a field that explores how cultures interact and how we can better understand outcomes, especially when misunderstandings occur. In this session, Cameron Romney will address […]

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Akita JALT September: From IUHW to Akita: Advancing Medical Interpreting and English Education By Dr. Mieko Sakamoto

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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 […]

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May 2025 Presentation: Deciphering Underlying Sentiment: Visualizing Covert Propensities Using Text Mining Methods

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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 […]

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March 22nd Akita Jalt Speaker- Kate Armstrong: The Impact of Gestures on Enhancing Student Learning

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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 […]

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(Akita JALT December Meeting) GRAD STUDENT POSTER SESSION: CLASSROOM-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

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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 […]

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Potential inequalities in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs in Madrid, Spain. – Natalia Evnitskaya

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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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Akita JALT Meeting for July 20th: Strategic Interactions in the Language Classroom

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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 […]

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Akita/AIU JALT Presentations June 2024 -Teaching English in Higher Education

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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 […]

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May 18th Presentation:Teaching Fluency Using the VerbalClassrooms Method

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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 […]

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December Grad student Presentations and Next Meeting (March)

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The December meeting was a big success and a big thank you once again to Dr. Hale and his students for a great meeting. We at Akita JALT thank you […]

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