April SUNDAY YoJalt meeting and Calls for Papers
Yojalt Publicity
Here are the details about our SUNDAY event this month. The rest of the year, we will be holding our events on Saturday as usual, but please remember that this month the event is
Our April event this year will follow a new format – “My Question”. The idea is that everyone who comes should think of a question or two that they would like to ask the group. This could be a straightforward factual question, a request for suggestions/advice, or a discussion starter. For example:
Teaching advice
- How do you handle plagiarism?
- Do you teach pronunciation? How?
- What writing errors do you think we should correct?
Career advice
- I’m writing a Japanese CV, but I don’t know what to put in this section here.
- What kind of questions did you get at your job interviews for a university position?
- What job websites are best?
Admin advice
- Has anyone set up a graded reader library without school funding?
- My teaching group shares a lot of worksheets/materials, but sharing by email is getting fiddly. Is there a better way?
- Some of the teachers I supervise don’t use the assigned textbooks. Students are complaining. What should I do?
- How do I choose a journal to publish in?
- I want to do a quantitative project, but I don’t know statistics. Where can I learn?
- What’s the best way to analyse interview data?
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The Speech, Drama and Debate SIG has put out a call for papers for their next issue of The Mask and Gavel.
We welcome the following kinds of submissions:
1. Research articles on topics connected to the themes of our SIG, speech, drama
and debate. (For submission guidelines please refer to the guidelines for the Feature
Articles section of The Language Teacher.) Submissions for research articles will be
read by two referees who will make a decision on whether the article can be accepted for publication, as is or with rewriting.
2. Practical or opinion articles on topics connected to the themes of our SIG. (For
submission guidelines please refer to the guidelines for the Reader’s Forum section
of The Language Teacher.)
3. Conference and classroom project reviews. (For submission guidelines please refer
to the guidelines for the Conference Reports section of The Language Teacher.)
Submission guidelines can be found at <http://jaltpublications.
org/tlt/submissions>. The deadline is June 1st. Submissions should be sent to Paul Nehls, at ne...@yokohama-cu.ac.jp
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The Kyoto JALT Review, Kyoto JALT's own online journal is happy to announce that issue #2 is now open for submissions (deadline is July 31st, 2014).
Anyone can submit a paper, and all the details about how can be seen here: http://kyotojalt.org/thekyotojaltreview.html.
We look forward to all your submissions. James Rogers The Kyoto JALT Review Editor-in-chief Kyoto JALT President
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The key to career success these days is publishing, but that can be a daunting task. The PSG can help! We are a volunteer group of writers and reviewers who collaboratively assist new or inexperienced writers to develop their manuscripts to a (hopefully) publishable level.
This year, we will be hosting a conference-long Writer’s Workshop at the Pan-SIG in Miyazaki. If you are presenting at the conference and want some help turning your presentation into a proceedings publication – stop by and see us. If you want help on another piece of in-process writing, or just want to toss some writing ideas around, you are also welcome! No appointment is necessary, but if you want to guarantee a one-to-one writing conference at a time convenient to you, please sign-up at: <http://goo.gl/5MBhV0>http://goo.gl/5MBhV0
To find out more about the PSG, please visit our webpage at: <http://jalt-publications.org/psg>http://jalt-publications.org/psg