Yokohama JALT Archive

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

June 15th (Sunday) 2025
The Story of an Accidental Academic in Japan and a Few Things that Were Learned Along the Way
Speaker: Diana Hawley Nagatomo
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 27th (Sunday) 2022
DEI Language Games: How to build an Equitable and Inclusive Classroom
Speaker: Jackie F. Steele
Location: Online, Online Events

September 16th (Saturday) 2017
CUE ESP Symposium
Speaker: Sue Starfield (UNSW), Barbara DuBabcock (City Uni HK), and Masako Terui (Kindai). Call for posters due June 30th
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

June 6th (Saturday) 2015
Second Conference on Critical, constructive assessment of CEFR-based language teaching in Japan and beyond (CriConCef)
Speaker: Prof. Yukio Tono (CEFR-J, TUFS)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

December 20th (Saturday) 2014
YoJALT December MyShare
Speaker: Several presenters
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 18th (Saturday) 2014
Conversation Activities (followed by Elections and AGM)
Speaker: Sean Anderson, Nathaniel French
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 19th (Saturday) 2014
Exploring The Value Of Student Self-transcription
Speaker: Simon Cooke and Colin Skeates
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 17th (Saturday) 2014
Raising Gender Awareness in the EFL Community in Japan: A closer examination of gender in the classroom and in the workplace.
Speaker: Kristie Collins (Tsukuba University) Reiko Yoshihara Diane Nagatomo
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 20th (Sunday) 2014
My Question
Speaker: Anyone Attending
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 15th (Saturday) 2014
Technology in Language Teaching
Speaker: Kevin Ryan, Dan Ferreira, Simeon Flowers, Travis Cote and Brett Milliner
Location: Machida City, Tokyo Metropolis

January 18th (Saturday) 2014
Cooperative learning: Teaching that is as easy as 1-2-3-4
Speaker: Joel Laurier (Gunma Kokusai Academy)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 21st (Saturday) 2013
End of Year My Share and Party
Speaker: Various
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 16th (Saturday) 2013
Negotiating the discipline: Writing for publication in TEFL/TESL
Speaker: Theron Muller (University of Toyama)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 21st (Saturday) 2013
JALT National Conference Preview
Speaker: Various
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 20th (Saturday) 2013
Self Access Centers
Speaker: Brett Milliner (Tamagawa University), Travis Coyte (Tamagawa University), Darrell Wilkinson (Soka University) and Bob Morrison (Kanada University of International Studies)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 15th (Saturday) 2013
TOEFL iBt Workshop
Speaker: Kazuya Kito, Terry Yearley
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 15th (Saturday) 2013
TOEFL iBt Workshop
Speaker: Kazuya Kito, Terry Yearley
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 18th (Saturday) 2013
Appreciative Inquire Activites and Ideal Classmates Research
Speaker: Tim Murphey
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 20th (Saturday) 2013
Humor: Theory and Implications for Teaching
Speaker: Ted Quock (Keisen University)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 16th (Saturday) 2013
Applying Principles of Social Psychology for Better Classroom Management
Speaker: Leander Hughes (Saitama University)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 19th (Saturday) 2013
Enhancing Students' Motivation: Imagining an L2 Self
Speaker: Garold Murray (Okayama University)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 16th (Sunday) 2012
My Share
Speaker: Several speakers
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 18th (Sunday) 2012
Teachers Helping Teachers Showcase
Speaker: Bill Mboutsiadis, Jenny Morgan, Yuki Maehara, Joe Tomei and others.
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 21st (Sunday) 2012
(1) Critical Media Literacy; (2) Global Issues in Scholarly Writing: Towards Academic Publication
Speaker: (1) Anna Husson Isozaki; (2) Atsushi Iida
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 23rd (Sunday) 2012
Action Research mini-conference
Speaker: Robert Croker (Nanzan University)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 15th (Sunday) 2012
Practical Ideas for Teaching Pronunciation
Speaker: Ayako Kanamaru (Caritas Junior/Senior High), Chie Shiramizu (Kyoei University), and Terry Yearley
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 17th (Sunday) 2012
An All-Yokohama-Member Presentation Special Event
Speaker: Andy Roomy, Tanya Erdelyi, Katsuya Yokomoto
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2012
Encouraging learner autonomy through peer feedback in the writing classroom
Speaker: Jennie Roloff Rothman
Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture

June 2nd (Saturday) 2012
Nakasendo Conference 2012: Using English
Speaker: Garr Reynolds, plus many more
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2012
(1) From Phonics to Literacy; (2) Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
Speaker: (2) Brad Semans; (2) John Finucane
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 22nd (Sunday) 2012
(1) English Rakugo; (2) Older Students as both Teachers and Learners
Speaker: (1) Tatsuya Sudo; (2) Tadashi Ishida
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 19th (Sunday) 2012
Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Communicative Competence
Speaker: Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 15th (Sunday) 2012
Content-Based Language Learning
Speaker: Mike Guest
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 18th (Sunday) 2011
My Share and End of Year Party
Speaker: Open to Members
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 16th (Sunday) 2011
Using Conflict Resolution Techniques for Language Learning
Speaker: Chris Stillwell (Sojo International Language Center, Kumamoto)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 18th (Sunday) 2011
Rehearsals For JALT National
Speaker: Michael Mondejar, Joel Nourier, Bill Mboutsiadis, Linamaria Valdivia, Edward Sanchez, Carol Begg
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 17th (Sunday) 2011
Improve Memory and Learning: 5 Powerful Teaching Techniques for EFL
Speaker: Robert Murphy
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 15th (Sunday) 2011
Critical Thinking Mini Conference
Speaker: David Gann, Jennie Roloff, Hugh Graham-Marr
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 17th (Sunday) 2011
Writing Center Workshop
Speaker: Jennie Roloff, Robert Moreau, Peter Cassidy
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 20th (Sunday) 2011
CANCELED: YoJALT March Meeting
Speaker: canceled
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2011
YoJalt February Meeting: TOEFL Integrated Writing
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr, Michael Ringen, Terry Yearley
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 16th (Sunday) 2011
Technology in the Classroom
Speaker: Mary Nobuoka, Darren Elliot
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 17th (Sunday) 2010
Three Presentations on Homework
Speaker: John Spiri, Gota Hayashi, Teruko Nakajima
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 17th (Saturday) 2010
Mini Conference: A Day With Vocabulary
Speaker: Featured Speakers: Rob Waring, Philip Shigeo Brown, Rory Rosszell
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2010
Reflective Teaching
Speaker: 1) Rob Moreau and Allen Lindskoog; 2) Polina Mitkova
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 18th (Sunday) 2010
Classrom Cohesion
Speaker: Steve Paydon and Yukari Saiki
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 21st (Sunday) 2010
Task-Based Language Learning in Japan
Speaker: Shinichi Izumi, Eric Setoguchi, Naoko Mochizuki
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 17th (Sunday) 2010
Two Presentations on Extensive Reading
Speaker: David Williams, Jennifer Yphantides
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 18th (Sunday) 2009
Elementary School English Activities: Mutual Benefits of University Students' Teaching Support
Speaker: Yuri Hosoda (Kanagawa Uni.), David Aline (Kanagawa Uni.), Masato Sugimoto and Saori Maekawa (Kanagawa Uni. students), and Seiji Nagumo (Yokohama City Nishiterao Daini Elementary)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 12th (Sunday) 2009
Doing Teacher Research: Collecting and Analizing Data
Speaker: Greg Sholdt
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 27th (Saturday) 2009
Eureka! Finding a direction forward with research planning
Speaker: Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuin University)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 17th (Sunday) 2009
Using a Classroom Response System
Speaker: Jonathon Lynch
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 15th (Sunday) 2009
Action Research Project- chapter one finished
Speaker: TBA
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 15th (Sunday) 2009
Guided Action Reserach Project: A beginning
Speaker: TBA
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 11th (Sunday) 2009
Getting Real: adding authentic communication to EFL classes through project work
Speaker: Michael Stout
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 28th (Sunday) 2008
YoJALT SIG Bash '08
Speaker: Various SIG Representatives
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 20th (Sunday) 2008
Hurt your Brain
Speaker: Jack Curran, Colin Skeates
Location: Machida City, Tokyo Metropolis

May 18th (Sunday) 2008
The Relaunch of YoJALT
Speaker: Steve Brown, YoJALT exec team
Location: Machida City, Tokyo Metropolis

July 8th (Sunday) 2007
Teaching Yoga to Children through English
Speaker: Elizabeth Knight
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2007
Dynamite Debates: A Case Study
Speaker: Tom Anderson
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 13th (Sunday) 2007
Brazilian or Japanese: choosing the best education for children
Speaker: Toshiko Sugino (National Defense Academy)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 8th (Sunday) 2007
Teaching Micro-Skills for the TOEFL iBT Speaking Tasks and Independent Writing Task
Speaker: Terry Yearley
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2007
Discourse, Teaching and Video Journals
Speaker: Colin Skeates, Seisen University
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 14th (Sunday) 2007
Word Association and the Mental Lexicon
Speaker: Philip Shigeo Brown
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 10th (Sunday) 2006
Hyper-reading
Speaker: Matt Sparling
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 12th (Sunday) 2006
1) Blogs as a Teacher Research Tool; 2) Teaching Comparative Religion
Speaker: 1) Renata Suzuki 2) Jean-Paul DuQuette
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 15th (Sunday) 2006
The Song of Myself: Haiku in the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Trudie Heiman
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 10th (Sunday) 2006
Toybox, Music box: Teaching Young and Special Needs Learners with Classical Music, Toys, and Mexican Music
Speaker: Francisco Sanchez
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 9th (Sunday) 2006
Teaching English to Older Learners
Speaker: Tadashi Ishida
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 11th (Sunday) 2006
Practical Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms
Speaker: Toshiyuki Suzuki
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 14th (Sunday) 2006
Making a Small-class Atmosphere in Big University Classes
Speaker: Theron Muller
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 9th (Sunday) 2006
NLP and Feldenkrais: Body and Mind in the Classroom
Speaker: Sylive Kuehne
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 12th (Sunday) 2006
Fun Activities with Junior and Senior-High Learners
Speaker: Jonathan Robinson
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 19th (Sunday) 2006
Content-Based Instruction Workshop: Windows on Teaching Young Learners
Speaker: Mitsue Allen-Tamai
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 15th (Sunday) 2006
Why do Students Lose their Motivation?
Speaker: Kiwa Arai
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 11th (Sunday) 2005
Introducing Self-directed Learning to College Students
Speaker: Marc Sheffner
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 20th (Sunday) 2005
VEN: Sustainable English teacher development in Southeast Asia
Speaker: Roger Pattimore
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

September 11th (Sunday) 2005
Two Presentations: Wrestling With Writing: A Case Study; Nontraditional Extreme Storytelling Activities
Speaker: Tom Anderson and M. Delano Cannegieter
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 10th (Sunday) 2005
Two presentations: Alternatives to Standard Testing: Self/Peer Evaluations & Portfolios; Constructive Teacher Engagement with University Leadership
Speaker: Scott Bronner, Nick Wood
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 12th (Sunday) 2005
Phonetic Features of British, American & Indian TV Newscasters' Speech and Responses of Listeners
Speaker: Nidumolu Syamala, CIEFL (India)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 8th (Sunday) 2005
Collaborative Learning Through Debates
Speaker: Chantal Hemmi, British Council
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 10th (Sunday) 2005
Children's English Education at Bilingual and English Schools Across Asia
Speaker: Jason Good
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 13th (Sunday) 2005
English Blast: A Model English Enrichment Program for Bilingual Children in Japan
Speaker: Holly Thompson (Instructor at Yokohama City University, Author of Ash and Cofounder of English Blast)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2005
Video Storyline: Actively Engaging Learners with Film
Speaker: Daniel Ferreira, High School English Instructor for Kawasaki City
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 16th (Sunday) 2005
Japanese University Students' Stereotypes of Chinese and American Foreigners: A Quantitative Study
Speaker: Christopher J. Long (Sophia University), Hisako Otsuka, and Naoki Ikeda
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 12th (Sunday) 2004
Top Up Communication
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr, ABAX Ltd.
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 16th (Tuesday) 2004
Off their log and into English: Getting Learners to Effectively Interact
Speaker: Nick Lyne, part of Interacting
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 17th (Sunday) 2004
Energetic Ecosongs for Kids & Helping High Schoolers' Fluency
Speaker: Renata Suzuki, Eigo de Asobo
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 11th (Sunday) 2004
Local Innovations in Public School English Language Teaching
Speaker: Elizabeth Knight, Yokohama Board of Education
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 13th (Sunday) 2004
Lifelong Language Learning Conference
Speaker: LIOJ, JALT and ETJ members
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 9th (Sunday) 2004
Applying Cross-Cultural Simulations in Japanese Contexts
Speaker: Tim Newfields
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 11th (Sunday) 2004
Using Video & Internet for Intercultural Education
Speaker: Scott Bronner, Sophia University
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 14th (Sunday) 2004
Wrestling with Writing
Speaker: Tom Anderson
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 8th (Sunday) 2004
Cooperative Development as a Medium for Teacher Development
Speaker: Andrew Boon
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 18th (Sunday) 2004
Effective Groupwork Guidelines
Speaker: Christopher Jon Poel & Robert M. Homan
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 11th (Sunday) 2004
Pronunciation Clinic for Non-native Teachers of English
Speaker: Ron Thornton
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 26th (Wednesday) 2003
New Directions in Teaching English
Speaker: Jack C. Richards
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 12th (Sunday) 2003
"I'm only doing this class because I have to!" -- Compulsory English Classes
Speaker: Annette Kaye, Waseda University
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 12th (Sunday) 2003
PhonePass Development & Testing Listening
Speaker: Jud Taylor
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 13th (Sunday) 2003
Group Brainstorming on ELT Problems, Ideas & Successes
Speaker: All Who Come!
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 8th (Sunday) 2003
LIOJ MiniConference: Creative Teaching Ideas
Speaker: Various LIOJ staff and area teachers
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 11th (Sunday) 2003
Speaking of Kids
Speaker: David Harrington
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 16th (Sunday) 2003
International Drama to Spark ELT
Speaker: Covenant Players International Drama Company
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 9th (Sunday) 2003
Using Movies & TV Programs for Learning English
Speaker: "Linda" Lyudmila Fudzikata and Small Group Discussion
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 12th (Sunday) 2003
ELT Materials Use & Design: Problems & Resolutions
Speaker: Kenneth Biegel
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

December 8th (Sunday) 2002
Drama-tic Improvements to English Teaching Using Drama
Speaker: Kristie Collins of The DramaWorks Team
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

November 19th (Tuesday) 2002
Content Based Instruction as a Framework for Teaching Reading
Speaker: William Grabe, Northern Arizona University
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 13th (Sunday) 2002
On the Go: Addressing Motivation through Travel English
Speaker: Jonah Glick, Longman ELT, Pearson Education Japan
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 14th (Sunday) 2002
Can Teaching Culture in the EFL/ESL Classroom Be Harmful?
Speaker: Michael Guest
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 16th (Sunday) 2002
Two workshops for language teachers
Speaker: Tom Anderson, Stephen Shrader
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 12th (Sunday) 2002
Intercultural Instruction Ideas & Motivating Projects
Speaker: Scott Bronner of Waseda University's Center for International Education
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 14th (Sunday) 2002
From Endangered Languages to Content-based Reading
Speaker: David Hough of Shonan Institute of Technology
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 10th (Sunday) 2002
TBA
Speaker: TBA
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 10th (Sunday) 2002
Utilizing Tasks in Teaching English
Speaker: Onoda Sakae, Kanda University of International Studies
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 13th (Sunday) 2002
The Use of Proverbs in Teaching Communicative English
Speaker: Bill Dare
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

October 14th (Sunday) 2001
Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

July 8th (Sunday) 2001
Karaoke Day: Using Songs in the English-Language Classroom
Speaker: Tom Anderson
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2001
Classroom Rubrics: How to Increase Authentic Student-Student Communication in the Classroom
Speaker: Dave Hough
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture

May 13th (Sunday) 2001
Problem solving as a Means of Oral and Written Expression through Role-Play
Speaker: Nathalie Lewis
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 8th (Sunday) 2001
Increasing Students' Involvement in the English Language Classroom
Speaker: Hattori Takahiko, Otsuma Women's University
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

March 11th (Sunday) 2001
Motivation to Learn in the FL Classroom: Characteristics and Strategies for Success
Speaker: Michael Mathis, Tsurumi SHS in Yokohama
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

February 14th (Wednesday) 2001
Classroom Rubrics: How to Increase Authentic Student-Student Communication in the Classroom
Speaker: Dave Hough
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

January 14th (Sunday) 2001
Intgegrating the Four Skills Through Debate
Speaker: Charles LeBeau, co-author of Discover Debate and Getting Ready for Speech
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture