Presenter: Adam Brod
Title: Reinterpreting Translation’s Role in Language Teaching
Date: Jan: 28th, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30pm. From 3:30 pm, we will have a small “Meet-and-Greet” gathering.
Location: Global Café, Olive Square, Kagawa University
Description: Although translation in the teaching of a learner’s target language (L2) gained a negative reputation with the rise of direct methods of instruction, this presentation and workshop will show that both direct methods and translation are most effective when used in conjunction but at deliberately different times and for deliberately different purposes. Moreover, Translation in Language Teaching (TILT) will be differentiated from the traditional Grammar Translation method, which mainly focuses on teaching grammar and not communication. Likewise, it will also be differentiated from professional translation, which does not necessarily focus on education at all.
The purpose of this presentation will be to discuss the role and efficacy of using L1 to learn L2. It will be considered that a personal and informal ability to translate between the L1 and L2 may be a skill on par with other linguistic skills such as speaking, listening, reading and writing. In the workshop, participants will be exposed to various translation-based activities allowing them to develop a better understanding of TILT.
Bio: Adam Brod is currently teaching English at the university level in Kagawa and Okayama prefectures. He holds an MA TESOL degree from Hawaii Pacific University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, bilingualism, and EFL writing instruction.
Title: Can virtual reality be used in the L2 for positive transfer of skills from an intensive English environment to reality?
Speaker: Jason Tacker, Akita Prefectural University
Date: Nov 18, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM
Abstract: This study, meant to add to the literature on virtual reality use in EFL education, examined the feasibility of using virtual reality in an L2 as a tool for positive transfer of skills from virtual reality to a real-world situation. We modeled our research on the methods of Michalski et al. (2019) in their work on the positive transfer of sports skills to practical application. We reinforced the method with ideas from Xie et al. (2021) in their research on common assessment tests and evaluations of positive transfer from virtual reality. Our method was mainly qualitative as it encompasses interpretivism, epistemological orientation, and constructionism as its main driving forces (Bryman, 2006). What we discovered was that the cooking skills taught in the L2 through virtual reality did transfer to a real-world situation. In the short-term, skills with detailed knowledge of the process were retained, while in the long-term, volunteers who were retested retained most of the processes of cooking from virtual reality.
Fees: Free for JALT members & any first-time JALT meeting attendees. 1,000 yen for non-JALT members.
Access: The meeting link will be sent by email to all current chapter members a few days before the meeting. If you are not a chapter member please request the meeting URL using the ‘Leave a reply’ link at the end of this posting.
JALT East Shikoku invites current or new JALT members to a language teaching retreat and officer planning meeting in the beautiful Hata region of Kochi Japan. Please join us for this 2 day event to share your language teaching experiences and help plan our 2024 events. If anyone is interested in taking on an officer role in the Chapter, this is an opportunity learn more about the various officer roles within the East Shikoku Chapter.
Dates & times: September 4-5, 2023. Monday: 12:00-17:00, Tuesday: 9:00-12:00.
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Officer Reports
Executive Council Steering Meeting
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Location: Kaiyu Conference Center, Kaiyu, Tosashimzu, Japan & Online via Zoom
Contact: For more information, please contact: Send Email
Date: Sunday, July 2, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Place: Global Café, Olive Square, Kagawa University, 1-1 Saiwaichō, Takamatsu, Kagawa 760-0016
Presenter: Peter Lutes
Day/time/location: Thursday, April 13 (6:30-8:00) KUT Eikokuji Campus, Room A108
Speaker: Dr. Naomi Wilks-Smith (RMIT University, Australia)
Title: Working with industry partners on EAL projects
Continue readingDate: Monday, March 13
Time: 6:30-8:00
Venue: Kochi University of Technology, Eikokuji Campus (Kochi City). Room A108
Title: International Communities in Japan: Niseko, Hokkaido
Speaker: Michael Burns
Date: Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021
Time: 9:00 to 15:00
Location: Kaiyu, Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture
ES JALT Officers will meet to discuss and draft a proposal for 2022 Chapter events and activities to support language learning in Japan. We will also join together as a small group ‘live’ for the the online jalt.org conference.
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2021 (12:00-6:00)
Venue: (Online Conference; Zoom)
Sponsors: Matsuyama JALT, East Shikoku JALT, Oxford University Press
JALT Members and students: free
One-Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
Outdoor Family Bonnenkai BBQ and Winter Camp
With the current pandemic crisis putting a damper on most face to face events, we hope to create opportunities to collaborate and socialize with colleagues and friends under safe (and fun!) outdoor conditions. Our December East Shikoku JALT social event aims to get chapter members together in person for something unique through a BBQ and camp in the great (and remote!) Kochi outdoors. The aim is to meet in person and say good-bye to a challenging 2020 while keeping a safe distance in an expansive natural setting, and to informally plan what is best for East Shikoku chapter in 2021. Please join us for good food and cheerful discussion over a warm campfire. Feel free to bring along your spouses, partners, children, and pets. If you plan to attend, please register for this event by replying to Paul Daniels, our chapter Treasurer, at the email below.
Date: December 5 and 6, 2020
Time: Starting at 2:00 pm on Saturday
Location: Ashizuri, Kochi (Tojindaba Picnic Site): https://goo.gl/maps/e5W1aqpf9T3cfLxbA
What to bring: BYO food & drink, warm clothes, soccer balls, baseball gloves, tent & sleeping bag if
staying the night. The camp site is free and spacious with running water, but has only drop toilets.
Contact: Paul@hokulele.us
East Shikoku JALT Chapter 
