August Announcements and Call for Papers
Yojalt Publicity
First and foremost, there is no Yokohama Chapter meeting in August. Please consider coming out for our September event, on the 3rd Saturday, to experience our "Technology in Language Teaching" event as well as our chapter elections.
Assessing Spoken Language
JALT’s West Tokyo Chapter in association with the JALT Tokyo Chapter is pleased to present Darren Lingley, Professor of Intercultural Communication and
Comparative Culture at Kochi University.
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2014
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Darren Lingley, Kochi University
Fee: JALT members: Free!
Non-members/one-day members: ¥1000 #You can join or renew your membership at
the event!
Venue: Unicom Plaza Sagamihara (ユニコムプラザさがみはら), Seminar Room 1
Abstract: This workshop will cover issues in assessing small group oral interaction. Participants will use rating scales (keeping the conversation going,
quality of content, grammar/vocabulary intelligibility, and pronunciation intelligibility)to assess three sets of Japanese learners. In the assessment of
spoken language, there is wide variation in how raters evaluate output, and how scales are interpreted. In this workshop, I will suggest ways to more
consistently evaluate spoken interaction, and discuss some of the issues in assessing oral proficiency for placement purposes.
Speaker profile: Darren Lingley is Professor of Intercultural Communication and
Comparative Culture at Kochi University. He is the immediate past Editor of
JALT Journal, the applied research journal of the Japan Association of Language
Teachers, and currently serves as JALT Publications Board Chair.
Walking Directions from Odakyu Sagamiono Station:
Exit Sagamiono Station North Exit
Turn Right before Station Square Shopping Complex
Turn Left at the courtyard and follow the covered walkway to Bono Sagamiono
Stay on the 2nd floor of Bono Sagamiono
Turn Left to the South Mall immediately after the SoftBank shop
Take the escalator one floor up to the 3rd floor of the South Mall
Unicom Plaza Sagamihara is next to the elevators
Venue Website (Japanese Only): <http://unicom-plaza.jp/access/index.html>
Warm regards
Tadashi Ishida
LLL SIG Coordinator
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Call for Papers
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Call for Papers for Mask & Gavel, the publication of the Speech, Drama, and Debate SIG
We are
now open for submissions for the second edition of the third volume of Mask
and Gavel, a peer-reviewed publication of the Speech, Drama, and Debate
SIG. 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, workshop, and book reviews. (For submission guidelines please refer to the guidelines for the Conference Reports section of The Language Teacher.)
Submission guidelines for The Language Teacher can be found at
<http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/submissions>.
Submissions should be sent to the editor, Paul Nehls, at <ne...@yokohama-cu.ac.jp>.
* Mask & Gavel is a peer-reviewed journal and submissions will be sent to two anonymous reviewers from the review board.