Hiroshima JALT Archive

This is an archive of all of the past events of Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.

January 19th (Saturday) 2019
Okayama JALT January 2019 Meeting: It's Not Just about Ganbaru: Avoiding the False Growth Mindset in the Japanese EFL Classroom
Speaker: Adrian Leis
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

July 29th (Sunday) 2018
Graduate Student Showcase
Speaker: Hao Jingxin, Stella Anggrainy, Rie Yamaji, Zeinab Shekarabi
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 17th (Sunday) 2018
Improving Student Motivation Through Using a Language Support Center: How the e-Clinic Benefits Students at Shimane University
Speaker: John Telloyan, Lynne Murphy, and Jun Iwata, Shimane University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 15th (Sunday) 2018
The Benefits Of Shared Reading As Perceived By Japanese Parents, Pre-service, And In-service Educators
Speaker: Aaron Sponseller, Yasuko Iwasaka, Brett Walter, Mitsuko Kashiba, and Seiji Fukazawa
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 25th (Sunday) 2018
Applying Research When Making a University-Wide Vocabulary Program: Doing What Works, Not What Is Easy
Speaker: Stuart McLean (Osaka Jogakuin)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 4th (Sunday) 2018
Gaining Insight Into Your Classroom Through Reflective Practice
Speaker: Joan M. Kuroda
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 14th (Sunday) 2018
The Planning and Development of an Active English Curriculum for University First-Year English Majors
Speaker: Keith Barrs, Amir Feroze, Daniel Hougham, Hosam Elmetaher, Jim Ronald and Philip Head
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 3rd (Sunday) 2017
Hiroshima JALT 2017 Conference
Speaker: To be announced
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 16th (Saturday) 2017
The 6th Annual OLE SIG Conference (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Several speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 15th (Friday) 2017
The 6th Annual OLE SIG Conference: The Past, Present and Future of Second Foreign Languages in Japan
Speaker: Several speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 30th (Sunday) 2017
(1) English Use Outside of the Classroom: L2 Learners or ELF Users? (2) EIL Language in the Era of Globalization in Japan: How do we manage the imbalance of power of language?
Speaker: (1) Miki Shibata; (2) Fuyuko Takita (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 18th (Sunday) 2017
Motivation and Alienation: Resistance as a Natural Part of Language Learning
Speaker: Joseph Shaules, Juntendo University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 21st (Sunday) 2017
Who Owns English? Exploring Linguistic Ideologies in High School Textbooks
Speaker: Rob McGregor. Hiroshima Motomachi Municipal Senior High School
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 2nd (Friday) 2016
Academic Writing Special: Scaffolding the Writing Process
Speaker: Dorothy Zemach (JALT2016 Four Corners Tour Speaker)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 13th (Sunday) 2016
JALT International Conference Sneak Preview
Speaker: To be announced
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 16th (Sunday) 2016
My Share & Book Review
Speaker: To be announced
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 11th (Sunday) 2016
Doing Action Research: My Project on Teacher Talk and Interactional Strategies and a Brainstorming Workshop for Practitioners
Speaker: Daniel Hougham (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 10th (Sunday) 2016
More Talking, Less Drilling: Developing Tasks with Communicative Intent
Speaker: Brett Walter (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 19th (Sunday) 2016
EFL Teacher Journeys Conference
Speaker: To be announced; call for papers due May 8
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 15th (Sunday) 2016
iPads and iBooks: Adding to the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Tamara Swenson (Osaka Jogakuin Daigaku)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 17th (Sunday) 2016
Behavioural Economics for Your Classroom
Speaker: Arthur Rutson-Griffiths (Hiroshima Bunko Women's University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 6th (Sunday) 2015
Hiroshima JALT 2015 Mini-Conference and Book Fair
Speaker: Call for proposals due Sept 30
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 12th (Sunday) 2015
HAFU: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan (2013) Film Screen & Panel Discussion
Speaker: Panelists: Rachael Burke, PhD, and others to be announced
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 28th (Sunday) 2015
TEAP: A Model For The Revision Of Japan's University Entrance Exam System
Speaker: Michael Todd Fouts (Eiken Foundation of Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 10th (Sunday) 2015
Writing EFL Materials for the Japanese Market: A Focus on Materials for Japanese Teachers
Speaker: Diane Hawley Nagatomo
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 19th (Sunday) 2015
Ideas and Inspiration for Raising Bilingual Kids
Speaker: Adam Beck (Bilingual Monkeys)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 8th (Sunday) 2015
Pragmatics and Language Education Workshop (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Noriko Ishihara (Hosei U.), Seiji Fukazawa (Hiroshima U.), Ryota Nagata (Hiroshima U.), Michiko Kasuya (University of Hyogo), Mayu Konakahara (Waseda U.), and Yoko Nogami (Matsuyama U.)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 7th (Saturday) 2015
Pragmatics and Language Education Workshop
Speaker: Noriko Ishihara (Hosei U.), Seiji Fukazawa (Hiroshima U.), Ryota Nagata (Hiroshima U.), Michiko Kasuya (University of Hyogo), Mayu Konakahara (Waseda U.), and Yoko Nogami (Matsuyama U.)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 1st (Sunday) 2013
Hiroshima JALT 2013 Mini-conference: Creativity and Collaboration
Speaker: Ken Wilson and many others! Call for papers due September 30th
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 29th (Sunday) 2013
CEFR-J Workshop
Speaker: Fergus O'Dwyer (Osaka University), Annie Semmelroth (Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University), Azusa Kodate (Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 21st (Sunday) 2013
Teaching Humor in the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Richard Hodson (Lecturer, University of Nagasaki Siebold)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 17th (Sunday) 2013
Helping Students with Learning Weaknesses
Speaker: Cynthia Akazawa (Owner, Interact English School, Kurashiki)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2013
Book Reports
Speaker: Dawn Kobayashi, Miki Shibata, Richard Gabbrielli, Susan Meiki, Tim Buthod, Fuyuko Ruetenik
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2013
Active Participation through Student Response Systems
Speaker: Bill Pellowe (Kinki University, Fukuoka)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 16th (Sunday) 2012
Hiroshima JALT Mini-Conference and Bookfair
Speaker: Barbara Sakamoto (sponsored by Oxford University Press), Aleda Krause (sponsored by Pearson Kirihara Longman)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 25th (Sunday) 2012
The Best Ways to Learn Japanese
Speaker: Ed McNamara (Koyo Higashi High School, JET Program), Monika Szirmai (Hiroshima International University), Warren Tang (Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University), Joe Lauer (Hiroshima Univers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 8th (Monday) 2012
Sports Day (Taiku-no-hi)
Students' Voice and Critical Thinking About Environmental Issues through News Item Writing
Speaker: Inggy Yuliani Pribady
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 23rd (Sunday) 2012
National Conference Sneak Preview, and My Share
Speaker: Hiroshima Area Speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 22nd (Sunday) 2012
Professional Development through Collaboration on Quantitative Research
Speaker: Gregory Sholdt (Kobe University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2012
Textbooks, Tasks, and Fluency
Speaker: Theron Muller
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 22nd (Sunday) 2012
(1) The Secrets of Peer Tutoring; (2) iPads for Teacher Toolkits
Speaker: (1) Craig Manning (University of Shimane); (2) Steve Henneberry (University of Shimane)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 19th (Sunday) 2012
Teaching English in Junior High School
Speaker: Allan V. Antonio (Assistant Language Teacher), Jessica Moore (Assistant Language Teacher), Hisae Hosaki (English Instructor)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 29th (Sunday) 2012
The Secrets of Successful Language Learners
Speaker: Four Successful Language Learners
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 9th (Friday) 2011
Hiroshima JALT Bonenkai
Speaker: Members and friends
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 23rd (Sunday) 2011
National Conference Sneak Preview
Speaker: To be decided
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 2nd (Sunday) 2011
Quantitative Research 101: An extended seminar/workshop
Speaker: Carol Rinnert and Ian Willey
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 24th (Saturday) 2011
Bringing Pragmatics to the Classroom
Speaker: Jim Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2011
Improving English Reading Abilities
Speaker: To be announced
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 16th (Sunday) 2011
Essential elements of effective TOEIC Prep
Speaker: Grant Trew (Oxford University Press)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 19th (Sunday) 2010
New Perspectives on Pragmatic Instruction: Moving Beyond Monolingual Norms
Speaker: Carol Rinnert (Hiroshima City University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 18th (Sunday) 2010
Corpling: A More Efficient Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Vocabulary
Speaker: Warren Tang (various schools) and Simon Fraser (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 20th (Sunday) 2010
How Native English Speakers See Gairaigo in Japan (followed by My Share)
Speaker: Ashley Souther (Takeda Junior and Senior High School), Jerry O'Sullivan (Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2010
Talking About JALT Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Speaker: Carol Rinnert (Hiroshima City University), Jim Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University), Keith Hoy (Suzugamine Women's College), and Eleanor Kane (University of Shimane)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 25th (Sunday) 2010
Being Constructive with Moodle
Speaker: Peter Ruthven-Stuart (Future University Hakodate)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 28th (Sunday) 2010
Teaching Children English Mini-Conference
Speaker: Aleda Krause, and many others
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 14th (Sunday) 2010
(1) Teaching English Verbs; (2) The Silent Way
Speaker: (1) Tomoaki Iguchi (Kwansei Gukuin University); (2) Don Cherry (Hiroshima Kokusai University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 17th (Sunday) 2010
Extensive Reading, Public Speaking, TOEIC, and more
Speaker: John Letcher (Cambridge University Press) and Marcos Benevides (ABAX)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 5th (Friday) 2008
End-of-the-Year Party
Speaker: It's a party!
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 30th (Sunday) 2008
Turning a Popular Authentic Text into a Language Course
Speaker: Kenneth Fordyce (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 9th (Sunday) 2008
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in ELT (English Language Teaching) in Vietnamese Schools: Reality and Solutions
Speaker: Tran Van Phuoc
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 12th (Sunday) 2008
Extensive Reading Seminar 2008
Speaker: Eleanor Kane, Fiona MacGregor, Daniel Stewart, Atsuko Takase
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 21st (Sunday) 2008
(1) Cultural Factors in Teaching English; (2) Improving Your Public Speaking Skills
Speaker: (1) Hideo Horibe, Hiroshima Instutute of Technology; (2) Jim Forsyth, Aki Toastmaster's Club
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 13th (Sunday) 2008
Making Our Teaching More Effective
Speaker: Shirley Leane
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 17th (Tuesday) 2008
Teaching Japanese, and WWII
Speaker: Sue Atsuko Kawashima (City University of New York)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 18th (Sunday) 2008
Prepare Your Students for Academic Studies
Speaker: Eri Okuda (Oxford University Press)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 20th (Sunday) 2008
(1) Oral Presentations; (2) Podcasts; (3) My Share
Speaker: (1 and 2) Joe Lauer (Hiroshima University); (3) Everyone
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2008
(1) Helping Students Speak English Better; (2) My Share
Speaker: (1) Eiko Nakamura (Okayama University and Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare ); (2) All welcome!
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2008
Reasons Why Experienced EFL Teachers Stay Positive and Motivated
Speaker: Neil Cowie, Okayama University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 29th (Thursday) 2007
Project-based Learning in ESL
Speaker: Arifa Rahman, Dhaka University, Bangladesh
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 28th (Sunday) 2007
Cultural and International Activities Foster Student Motivation
Speaker: Fumiko Itakura
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 2nd (Sunday) 2007
Part A: Actually Teaching Listening: The importance of script and of supra-segmental phonology. Part B: Teaching the Strategies of Speaking
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr (Abax ELT Publishers)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 8th (Sunday) 2007
There's a book inside all of us
Speaker: Paul Moritoshi
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 17th (Sunday) 2007
Can we communicate without using strategies? Pedagogical implications of studies on communication strategies (CS)
Speaker: Chiaki Iwai (Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2007
Choice by Choice: A Workshop on Curriculum Design
Speaker: Timothy Buthod, Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 14th (Saturday) 2007
The New TOEIC Test: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges
Speaker: Grant Trew
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 17th (Saturday) 2007
Poetics for Autonomous Learning and Teaching
Speaker: Hugh Nicoll (Miyazaki Municipal University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 21st (Sunday) 2007
Media and Foreign Image Building
Speaker: Yasuhiro Inoue (Hiroshima City University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 22nd (Sunday) 2006
Sneak Preview of the JALT International Conference in Kitakyushu, Nov. 2-5
Speaker: Dan McCourt (University of Shimane); Joe Lauer (Hiroshima University); and Maria Trovela and Carol Fujii (Fukuyama University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 24th (Sunday) 2006
Two Topics: Student Resistance, followed by Putting Reading and Listening Online
Speaker: Keiko Sakui (Kobe's Shoin Women's University) and Gordon Luster (Language Education and Research Network, Inc.)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 9th (Sunday) 2006
Task-based Language Learning Through Debate
Speaker: Eiko Nakamura (Okayama Prefecture's Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 18th (Sunday) 2006
Psycholinguists and Second Language Ability
Speaker: Jun Yamada (Professor, Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 21st (Sunday) 2006
A Crash Course in Public Speaking
Speaker: Dennis Woolbright (Seinan Jogakuin University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 5th (Wednesday) 2006
Looking Like the Enemy
Speaker: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 19th (Sunday) 2006
Teaching English to Children
Speaker: Yukiko Shima (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi) and Katherine Mackay (Pearson Education- Longman)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 19th (Sunday) 2006
Two presentations: (1) Using your iPod in the classroom; (2) Using podcasts - even without an iPod!
Speaker: Bill Pellowe (Kinki University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 22nd (Sunday) 2006
Specialized Vocabulary and My Share
Speaker: Simon Fraser (Hiroshima University) and everyone present!
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 17th (Saturday) 2005
Hiroshima JALT Bonenkai
Speaker: Everyone is welcome
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 20th (Sunday) 2005
Creative Activities for Teachers: Finding Your Bounce, Fizz and Zoom Again
Speaker: Richard Gabbrielli (Yasuda Women's University) and Ron Klein (Hiroshima Jogakuin University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 13th (Sunday) 2005
Strategic and Spiral Ways of Developing Students' Speaking Abilities
Speaker: Goro Tajiri (NHK's Wakuwaku Jugyo and Higashi Izumo Junior High School)
Location: Onoda City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

September 25th (Sunday) 2005
My Share and National Conference Sneak Preview
Speaker: James Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University) and anyone else who wants to present
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 24th (Sunday) 2005
A New Approach to Teaching Children for Skilled Teachers
Speaker: Naoko Ogikubo
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 26th (Sunday) 2005
Engaging Learners in Their Own Learning with a Drama Approach
Speaker: Steve Brown, National President of JALT
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 12th (Sunday) 2005
Teaching English to Elementary School Children: The Steiner Way
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Jaffke (Visiting Scholar: Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 29th (Sunday) 2005
Teaching English to Junior High School Students
Speaker: Goro Tajiri (Higashi Izumo Junior High School)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 24th (Sunday) 2005
Three Interesting Approaches for Improving the Quality of Your English Lessons
Speaker: Robin Manning, Tim Buthod, and Eleanor Kane (all from Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2005
Online Group Discussions
Speaker: Wesley Dennis (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 28th (Friday) 2005
New Year Get Together
Speaker: -
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 17th (Wednesday) 2004
Beyond "Political Correctness" in Language Assessment: A View from an Outsider
Speaker: H. Douglas Brown, Professor of English at San Francisco State University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 16th (Tuesday) 2004
Three Ways of Looking at Words
Speaker: Paul Meara, University of Wales, Swansea
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 13th (Saturday) 2004
Theatre and Comedy in the Classroom
Speaker: Interacting Theater Group
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 17th (Sunday) 2004
Four Presentations
Speaker: Mark Zeid, Gordon Luster, and Ian Nakamura
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 30th (Thursday) 2004
Jazz Chants by Carolyn Graham
Speaker: Carolyn Graham
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 19th (Sunday) 2004
Two Topics: (1) Teaching Writing via Computers, (2) Improving Your Spelling Skills
Speaker: Joe Lauer (Hiroshima University)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 18th (Sunday) 2004
English Language Education in Elementary Schools
Speaker: Paul Hackshaw (Ryukoku University, Kyoto)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 20th (Sunday) 2004
Material Writers Panel Discussion
Speaker: Simon Capper, Richard Gabrielli, Joe Lauer, Carol Rinnert, and Keiso Tatsukawa
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2004
Communicate the Magic in You
Speaker: Tim Murphey and Brad Deacon
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 18th (Sunday) 2004
Using Music in the Classroom
Speaker: Christian Lister, Hiroshima Shudo University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 14th (Sunday) 2004
Intensive English Training on the Web (IETW)
Speaker: Nobuyuki Aoki and Tomoe Watanabe, Hiroshima City University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 1st (Sunday) 2004
Teaching English to Children
Speaker: Katherine MacKay, Longman
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 18th (Sunday) 2004
Looking Back at 2003, Looking Ahead to 2004: Teacher Sharing
Speaker: Everyone present
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

December 21st (Sunday) 2003
Bonenkai and Thank You Party
Speaker: Naomi Fujishima, Tim Gutierrez, Roidina Salisbury, Chiaki Iwai, and Masamichi Miaoku
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 19th (Sunday) 2003
Sneak Preview of the National JALT Conference
Speaker: Linda Kadota and Ian Nakamura
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 21st (Sunday) 2003
Teaching Children How to Read English
Speaker: Joe Lauer (Hiroshima University), Adam Beck (Hiroshima Starship), Mari Tsuruda (Hiroshima YMCA), and Junko Noborizato (Noborizato's Juku)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 24th (Thursday) 2003
Going Beyond Memorization
Speaker: John Fanselow, Former TESOL President
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 6th (Sunday) 2003
Writing Effective Language Tests for Both Accuracy and Fluency
Speaker: James Dean Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 22nd (Sunday) 2003
Teaching English to Children
Speaker: Genki English
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 11th (Sunday) 2003
Quality of Life in the Language Classroom: Why it matters and what we can do about it
Speaker: Dick Allwright, Lancaster University, England
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 9th (Sunday) 2003
Putting Words in Their Mouths: Dictogloss, Shadowing and Summarizing
Speaker: John Small, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 9th (Sunday) 2003
Two Presentations: 1) Teacher Development, 2) Vocabulary Acquisition
Speaker: 1) Stuart Ruttan, and 2) Tomoko Nakamura
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 16th (Sunday) 2003
Language Awareness and International Understanding through English
Speaker: Kip Cates
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 19th (Sunday) 2003
Hiroshima JALT Bookfair 2003
Speaker: Several presenters
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 17th (Sunday) 2002
Cat's Feat: From Practice to Principle in Task Design and Task-based Learning
Speaker: Dr. Jane Willis, Aston University
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 10th (Sunday) 2002
Boinguage (What is it? Attend and discover.)
Speaker: John Fanselow, International Pacific College, New Zealand
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 19th (Saturday) 2002
Pre-JALT National Conference Warm-Up Meeting
Speaker: various speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 28th (Saturday) 2002
Covenant Players: A Drama Workshop
Speaker: Kurt and Cathy Purucker
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 14th (Sunday) 2002
Toastmasters
Speaker: Mr. Kinley, Installation Business Management Officer at the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and Advanced Toastmaster
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 16th (Sunday) 2002
Teaching English in Other East Asian Countries
Speaker: Ian Nakamura, Peter Wang, Lauran Merginio
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 21st (Sunday) 2002
Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
Speaker: : Prof. Nagara, Hijiyama University, and Prof. Hosoki, University of Maryland
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 17th (Sunday) 2002
The Current State of Teaching English in Japanese Schools
Speaker: Miyaoku Masamichi
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2002
Swap Shop Featuring Everyone Present!
Speaker: Everyone
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2002
Hiroshima Book Fair 2002
Speaker: Various speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 21st (Wednesday) 2001
Measuring School Achievement as Part of the Development of the Educational System of the Philippines in the 21st Century
Speaker: Raul C. Laborte, Emilio Ramos National High School, Davao City, the Philippines
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

November 20th (Tuesday) 2001
Lesson Planning By Threads
Speaker: Tessa Woodward
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

October 14th (Sunday) 2001
Pre-JALT Presentations
Speaker: various
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

September 16th (Sunday) 2001
Raising Japanese-English Bilingual Children in Japan.
Speaker: Joe Lauer, Adam Beck, Susan Meiki, Kato Kumiko, David M. Mosher
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

July 15th (Sunday) 2001
Star Taxi
Speaker: Theo Steckler, Ian Frankly, and Marc Sheffner of Drama Works
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

June 3rd (Sunday) 2001
Go to the JACET Conference
Speaker: Several quality speakers
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2001
Two presentations: (1) Global Issues, and (2) Raising Money For Charity
Speaker: (1) Brian Teaman, Hiroshima University (2) Adam Beck, Hiroshima International School
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

April 15th (Sunday) 2001
Two presentations: (1) Starting Right with SuperTots and (2) Pingu Play! For Every Child's First English Experience
Speaker: (1) Michelle Nagashima (co-author of SuperTots), (2) Katherine Mackay (ELT consultant)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

March 25th (Sunday) 2001
Two presentations
Speaker: (1) Yayoi Akagi (2) Simon Capper, Joe Lauer, Joel Harris
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2001
Empowering Students via Ethnographic Study Abroad
Speaker: Linda Kadota
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

January 21st (Sunday) 2001
Hiroshima JALT Bookfair 2001
Speaker: Several presenters
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture