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Meeting Updates
The scheduled event ‘King of Hearts’ on 19th April with speaker, Bill Jones and is ‘postponed’ and hopefully rescheduled for June or July. Additionally, although uncertain at the moment, but the barbecue/picnic at Takashi Park is provisionally scheduled for May 31st. We will keep everyone updated with information for events once they are decided. For…
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April Update and other news
Due to the current Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) situation, some March events at JALT chapters have been either cancelled or postponed, and similarly with larger scale JALT events such as the annual PanSIG 2020 originally scheduled for May in Niigata. As our chapter is neither famous for massive attendances or overcrowding, we plan to go ahead…
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February 2020 Toyohashi Meeting
Hello everyone. Thank you to all who could come to the previous presentation from Ben Gibbon. Thank you Ben Gibbon for presenting to everyone. ᕙ(`▿´)ᕗ
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Toyohashi February 16th Meeting
Greetings everyone. At the next meeting the presenter will be talking about assessment of L2 speaking in large classes. Testing and assessment is not an easy area to come up which works for all the students, and helped with assessing students’ progress. As well as validity and reliability, practicality – whether or not the test…
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Toyohashi January 26th Meeting
Happy New Year to you all! We all at JALT Toyohashi hope you are having a good new year. JALT Toyohashi will resume meetings, with a workshop planned next Sunday (26th) around the theme of classroom research. Along with considering the way theories could be applied to classrooms, classroom research is central to evaluating the…
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December 15th meeting
Dr Andy Nonaka will be talking about what makes a good presentation by redefining ‘presentation’ – which is often mistakenly used interchangeably with terms like ‘Powerpoint’ and ’slides’. This meeting will be of particular interest to teachers who have to incorporate related language skills in a class, particularly the speaking and the speech components, and…
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November 24th Meeting: Dispelling Pronunciation Myths: Best Practices for Teachers
JALT2019 was a huge success, where some familiar faces from Toyohashi contributed to it as presenters, participants, and conference staff members. However, don’t let it just be a legacy yet – we will be continuing this illustrious energy from the international conference on November 24th where we have the privilege to invite one of the…
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Contextualizing English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Assumptions, Aspirations, and Affirmations Meeting
Greetings, We hope you enjoyed the presentations and the information shared at the meeting. We hope you learned something new and felt the experience worthwhile. We were happy for the attendance and hope to see you all again at future events. Please let us know how we can improve to make future experiences even more…
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Upcoming Events
This is to update you on progress with our programs in the next few months. Unusually, we have several meetings ahead pretty much decided! The following events are as follows: 1. Saturday 19th October (13:00-16:30): Title: Contextualizing English as a Lingua Franca: Assumptions, Aspirations and Affirmations. Jointly with Aichi University’s Institute for Research in Humanities…
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September 22nd Meeting Update
Greetings, I hope you have had a good summer. Our planned meeting on September 22nd is cancelled, as the presenter will not be able to attend on that day. Our next meeting (a joint one with Aichi University) is on Saturday October 19th. Title: Contextualizing English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Assumptions, Aspirations, and Affirmations…
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