Professional Development through Collaboration

Next month, Kyoto JALT Chapter & Learner Development SIG One-day Meeting kick-starts the academic year in Japan on 8 April 2012 with well-known teacher-trainers, Ann Mayeda on “Strategies in Use: Young Learners and the Willingness to Communicate”, and Akiko Takagi on “Promoting Reflection for Professional Development”. Phil Brown will also lead a workshop on “Vocabulary Learning Strategies Empowerment”, the subject of his chapter in our recently published Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia. 

For more information, a downloadable poster, and map, please visit:
http://ld-sig.org/events/KyotoJALT_AprilEvent.pdf

CLIL in Asian Contexts: Emerging Trends

The Asian EFL Journal is one of the world’s leading refereed and indexed journals in the field of teaching and learning English. It provides a unique and major forum devoted to discussions on English as an International Language research and development.

The journal plans to publish a Special Issue on CLIL in Asian Contexts: Emerging Trends in September, 2013. The aim is to provide a variety of perspectives on matters related to Content and Language Integrated Learning in the Asian context.

CLIL is becoming increasingly popular in various levels of education across Asia. The research emanating from Europe is particularly informative to educators merging content and language. It is, however, necessary to provide a forum to reflect its growth in the diverse Asian contexts in which it is adopted.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers in the following categories:

• Research Articles (RA) drawing upon data which are well-referenced.
• Teaching Articles (TA) focusing on practical teaching methodologies with some references.
• Curriculum Contexts (CC), a new category which seeks articles describing a CLIL program and its connection with content.
• RAs should be between 7,000 to 10,000 words including appendices and references.
• TAs should be between 5,000 to 7,000 words including appendices and references.
• CCs should be between 1,500 to 2,000 words including appendices and references.

The deadline for submissions is 31^st October, 2012.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• CLIL at various levels of education

• ESP/EAP in preparation for or to support content instruction

• Language and content faculty collaboration

• CLIL classroom discourse

• CLIL methodology/assessment/evaluation

• CLIL curriculum design

We welcome papers from all corners of the globe, but preference will be given to those with links to the Asian context, including Australasia and the Middle East. Manuscripts should not have been submitted for consideration or published elsewhere and should follow APA referencing.

All enquiries and final manuscripts (including biographical details) should be sent in MS Word form via email attachment to: 

Dr. John Adamson

Senior Associate Editor
johnadamson253@hotmail.com

* Please note that all manuscripts will be subject to anonymous review by a panel of experts.

Teacher Development for teachers and by teachers.

MASH collaboration has been a major part of this new venture. Have a read and see if you might like to join us?

http://www.teachingvillage.org/2011/06/03/teacher-development-2-0-by-steven-herder/

Looks to be a great event!

This looks like a great opportunity for participants as well as audience members.

Robert S. Murphy, Marc Helgesen, Curtis Kelly, and Tim Murphey

Call for papers (40 min, 20 min, and posters) extended till June 10.

FAB1: Connecting Neuroscience with EFL in Japan/Asia. 

A charity event for the children of the Tohoku disaster.

http://fab-efl.com

details:

FAB1: Connecting Neuroscience with EFL 

A charity event for the children of the Tohoku disaster.

by Robert S. Murphy, Marc Helgesen, Curtis Kelly, and Tim Murphey

Kitakyushu, July 9th

Kansai, July 10th

This is our “first annual” brain day event (FAB1). We hope this will turn into a significant annual conference for EFL in Japan/Asia and we are therefore looking to gather teachers and researchers, from novice to expert, who are interested in helping make a pivotal connection between neuroscience and EFL. This year, all profits, including plenary presenter honoraria, will go to Save the Children and Plan (Tohoku relief efforts for children). Please see website for details.

Send us your abstract (2-3 paragraphs max) and your bio.
Even if you are a first time presenter, or a veteran, we want to hear from you. 
Let’s get those neurons to grow together!

Send your presentation/poster proposal to Robert S. Murphy:
m@murphyschool.com

visit: http://www.fab-efl.com