I presented at JALT PanSIG yesterday on multimodality for second language perceptual phonology acquisition. This builds on my PhD work. I have been busy with some major life changes so I don’t think it was the best presentation I have ever done but people seemed to like it/find it useful.
Here are the slides:
At the weekend I presented at JALT 2024 International Conference in Shizuoka and it was really enjoyable although overwhelming, due to a bit of personal news. I met new colleagues though, and people that I enjoy meeting that I don’t get to see often enough.
Anyway, on Sunday at six o’ clock, when anybody sensible who teaches first period on a Monday was wedged on a sofa with a cup of tea winding down mentally, I was presenting about the duoethnography assignments that I’ve been setting for first-year undergraduate students over the last three years.
Continue reading →I found out this morning that my conference paper has just been published. I have long been using multiliteracies alongside task-based language teaching in my work, and this is a very teaching-based work, which is a bit different to some of my research. I also got to use some of my nascent R skills ability.
The article is open access and available on the JALT Post Conference Publication website.
At the weekend I went to JALT PanSIG conference in Fukui. Two weeks ago I was at DIELE conference, which was much closer to home, but I think I have to vow to myself not to go to two conferences in a month ever again. I feel like I could sleep for a week; unfortunately, my marking load says otherwise.
Anyway, I was at the conference to present a pilot study that I ran with five students on multilingual listeners and their experiences. To be honest, what I presented barely scratches the surface of the data I collected, which was very rich, considering I only met with each participant for around 30-60 minutes.
Anyhow, there is not a lot of work done on multilinguals, and even less on their listening. I got some nice questions with food for thought about future directions that this research can take.
Yesterday, I presented with my colleague Gretchen Clark on Workplace Orientations of Teachers with ADHD at the Diversity and Inclusivity in English Language Education conference at Soka University. It was an interesting conference, and I met a lot of people doing interesting research that intersects a lot with my teaching interests, even if not always with my research agenda.
Our presentation was based upon interviews that we did to follow up a questionnaire study, with results to be published very soon. Our interview study should also, hopefully, be earmarked for a journal incredibly soon and I will link to it here.
Anyway, we interviewed nine language teachers in higher education in Japan, who were not Japanese nationals, who had ADHD, either medically or self diagnosed. We asked about what supports they have, what supports they would like at work. A lot of the best support comes from flexibility with structure. If clear communication channels are added, teachers can thrive.
We would like to thank all of the participants in the study who gave their time freely and willingly; we hope that we have shared your stories and that we can help to make positive change in education. All attendees, also many thanks for your positive feedback. I know that I get very shy about positive feedback, so if I may have appeared a little standoffish, or just otherwise weird, that is why.
Slides are here.
Yesterday at JALT National Conference in Tsukuba I presented something about how I worked with my students in the last presentation skills course I taught. I often had students isolate interesting/key data points from charts and tables and revisualise them in better, more salient ways, usually with pens and paper.
Also, weirdly for me, I used Keynote for my slides. I don’t hate them, but I prefer my usual template.
The slides are here. Some graphs are deliberately bad, because they should be compared with better graphs.
On 14th October I presented a poster based on my PhD research with Prof. Carolyn Blume, who sadly couldn’t make it to the conference. I got a lot of very interesting feedback.
This was my first actual poster presentation that I had given, and I hope that I used the principles in Zen Faulkes’ book Better Posters well.
Here is the poster if you are interested in reading it.
I presented at the JALT Listening SIG Conference yesterday. I got some interesting feedback. Here are my slides.
I am using ‘critical’ here in the layperson sense, not the critical theory sense.
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Today I presented at JACET 4th Joint Seminar on some duoethnography with my class. Please find the slides here.
I gave a presentation at JALT Listening Conference (self-embargoed because I intend to sort it out as a paper for my PhD), but I talked about it in a short interview with Chris from Lost In Citations. There are a lot of other fantastic people interviewed talking about listening research, so you should check it out, seeing as you are probably interested in listening.
The link is here: Lost in Citations episode 120.