Welcome to another edition of JALT Talk, the montly JALT Announcements Newsletter. As we head into July and many of us find our semesters winding down into another summer with heavy travel restrictions, we can at least find hope in the increasing number of vaccinated people here in Japan.
In this issue:
Tonight: JALT Zoom for Professional Development, on a Wednesday evening
Join us on Wednesday, June 30, 20:00-21:00 Japan Time for the sixth monthly JALT Zoom for Professional Development (ZPD)! If you haven't heard of this before, the JALT ZPD is basically an online discussion. We use Zoom, so we can create smaller online rooms for many topics, and the participants can choose which topic they want to participate in. Our regular topics include new membership orientation, getting published, discussing research, online teaching, and more. JALT officers can ask questions related to the new JALT website as well as position-specific questions. Come see for yourself! Networking, informal chat, and building a community of practice with JALT members and prospective members. This event is free and open to all. Pre-register to get the Zoom information: http://bit.ly/ZPDRSVP
JALT Listening SIG: Call for The Listening Post journal
The Listening Post seeks quality, empirically-based and theoretically-focused articles on listening research methods, the teaching of listening and the learning outcomes from listening in various language learning contexts. Submissions related to listening and other language skill development and/or other complementing components (i.e., resources) that are related to second and foreign language acquisition, will be considered.
Please send your submissions or contact us to discuss your idea at listening@jalt.org
For any Listening SIG queries, contact Naheen at naheen_madarbakus-ring@nucba.ac.jp
JALT Listening SIG: Call for Hear Us Out! -- The Listening SIG Podcast
The Hear Us Out! podcast explores many ideas concerned with the teaching of listening and learning from listening. If you would like to share some of your research, chat about some teaching ideas, or take part in an episode, then please contact us at listening@jalt.org or Naheen at naheen_madarbakus-ring@nucba.ac.jp
Reminder: 2021 JALT Research Grant Proposal Application Period: June 1st to September 30th
Each year, JALT awards up to three grants for a maximum of 100,000 yen each for research on language teaching in Japan. Only JALT members who have no outside funding sources to conduct research are eligible to apply. The goal of the grants is to support language teachers in their professional development and to encourage teachers to engage in classroom-based research. Grant applications are collected each summer and vetted by the JALT Research Grants Committee. Winners of the grants receive funding before the start of the following school year, during which they conduct their studies, provide quarterly reports, and receive guidance from the committee. After completing the research, winners are invited to give presentations on their projects at the JALT national conference and publish a paper in the Language Teacher. The deadline for proposals for projects starting in the 2022 academic year is September 30th, 2021. Please see the 2021 Research Grants page for details. https://jalt.org/researchgrants
JALT Publications:
JALT has published The Language Teacher, Issue 45.4; July 2021. https://jalt.org/main/tlt
* Please note that all JALT members had to renew their passwords after March 2021. If you have not logged into the JALT website since March, you will need to reset your password.
Testing and Evaluation SIG has released Shiken: A Journal of Language Testing and Evaluation in Japan: 25.1. https://hosted.jalt.org/teval/node/103
Nagoya Chapter has released Nagoya JALT Journal: 2(1). https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-publication/the-nagoya-jalt-journal
JALT Events
For details, please see https://jalt.org/events
30 June 2021
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Multilingual Café
Other Language Educators SIG
30 June 2021
8:00pm to 9:00pm
June Zoom for Professional Development
JALT Central
02 July 2021
6:45pm
State of the Chapter with featured guest Zoltán Dörnyei: Long-term motivational persistence in language learning
Tokyo Chapter
03 July 2021
1:00pm
Neurodiversity in Education: JALT Yokohama and Kobe Chapters Joint Event
Alex Burke and Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
04 July 2021
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Young Learners Teachers Forum
Nagoya Chapter
04 July 2021
1:30pm
2021 Michinoku English Education Summit
Iwate-Aomori JALT
10 July 2021
10:00am to 5:00pm
ICLE SIG 1st Conference
Intercultural Communication in Language Education SIG
10 July 2021
10:00am
Language vs. Learning
Nagano Chapter
Language vs. Learning
10 July 2021
10:00am to 1:00pm
Advising in Language Learning and its Application to Classroom Teaching
Kyoto Chapter
17 July 2021
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Live interview with Alex Burke and her work on Neurodiversity
Fukui Chapter
18 July 2021
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Create Fun Listening Lessons with Free Apps
Tottori Chapter
18 July 2021
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Teaching Fluency using the Verbal Classrooms method
Matsuyama Chapter
18 July 2021
5:00pm to 8:00pm
The JALT Younger Learner Teachers' Olympic Webinar
TYL SIG & JALT Sendai Chapter co-sponsors
24 July 2021
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Getting Started with Vocabulary Notebooks
Fukuoka Chapter
For details, please see https://jalt.org/events
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Best regards,
Bill Pellowe
JALT Director of Public Relations