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AKITA JALT meetings in 2009
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March




Guest speaker: Yasuhiro Imai, Ph.D.
Date: March 14th, 2009
Title: Recasting emotions in SLA: Insights from learning as a social transaction
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Place: AIU (Akita International University)
Room: B-103

16 people attended.

Chapter Report (to be printed in The Language Teacher) Guest speaker: Yasuhiro Imai, Ph.D. AKITA – March 2009 - Recasting Emotions in SLA: Insights from Learning as a Social Transaction by Yasuhiro Imai. "What is the connection between emotions and SLA?" Yasuhiro Imai showed us his answer to this question through a PowerPoint presentation that outlined his current research on emotions and SLA, which sometime next year the Modern Language Journal will publish. He explained the theories and methodologies used in his qualitative case-study research that employed small groups of university students. Focusing on the emotional output of his student-subjects, he was able to discover different levels of emotional involvement, intelligence and learning when it came to SLA, and implementation. His idea of “intersubjectivity” challenged us to look beyond the individual and realize that educators must take into account the complex, dynamic and social aspects of emotion. We ended the session with open discussion about how his study could influence materials development, rapport within the classroom, understanding student behavior, and classroom dynamics. At various stages, the discussion became very Socratic. It was a riveting experience indeed! Reported by Wayne Malcolm

AKITA JALT meetings in 2009
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April





Guest speaker: Colin Graham
Date: April 25th, 2009
Title: The Corpus in the Classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Place: AIU (Akita International University)
Room: B-103

10 people attended.

Chapter Report (to be printed in The Language Teacher) Guest speaker: Colin Graham AKITA – April 2009 - The Corpus in the Classroom - Colin Graham. This was a workshop where the presenter led a session to show the possibilities and pitfalls of introducing corpora in a practical way to the classroom. After a brief introduction to Corpus linguistics, the presenter went on to discuss aspects of building the corpus, ways to involve students in its creation and then illustrated resources for materials development. There were practical demonstrations of various activities teachers could employ based on corpus linguistics. After a short break the presented utilized a live Internet feed to compare various Corpus Linguistics websites and explained how best to adjust the input variables for optimum success. Reported by Stephen Shucart

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