Talking Points February 2016
Getting started with the Talking Points Column for 2016 Arts education, learner autonomy, and learner advising (指導, 指導者) Greetings all, Hope everyone has gotten off to a good start in the New Year. This...
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Talking Points December 2015
An Interview with Masuko Miyahara For the December Talking Points, we interviewed Masuko Miyahara, who recently published a book called Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning: A Narrative Approach (2015). Masuko, herself,...
Talking Points November 2015
One Shot Learner Development Here Jim Ronald and Naomi Fujishima, with some input from students and from the Hiroshima LD Get-together participants, discuss whether a single lecture or meeting with students on the topic...
Talking Points October 2015
Metaphors and learner autonomy – A conversation with Darren Elliott In this month’s Talking Points, Jim Ronald and Naomi Fujishima interview Darren Elliott, following his presentation at the BAAL conference on metaphors and learner...
Talking Points August 2015
JASAL Show & Tell @ Okayama University’s L-cafe In this month’s Talking Points, Naomi Fujishima and Jim Ronald report and reflect on a student-led JASAL social learning space-focused event held in July at Okayama...
Talking Points July 2015
Learning from our students This month’s Talking Points, a foretaste of the JALT National LD Forum, focuses on listening to our students. Jim Ronald starts with a story that, for him, brought home the...
Talking Points June 2015
Just imagine! Imagination in second language learning This month we would like to share with you an interview we had with Garold Murray. Garold is one of the pioneers of self-access learning in Japan, setting...
Talking Points May 2015
Motivating Students through English Camp Naomi: Hi Jim! So, today we’re going to talk about an English camp that your students participated in at your university just recently. First of all, when was it?...
Talking Points April 2015
This month, we have invited Mathew Porter to Talking Points. Mathew is a long-valued part of the Hiroshima LD Get-togethers, and of Hiroshima JALT, who has just moved to many new things in Fukuoka....
Talking Points March 2015
The classroom as a social learning space Naomi: In our last column in February, we defined a social learning space to be a place where students or learners can come together to learn with...
