The 26th Conference of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of the Northeast Region of the United States (JLTANE)
Theme: Re-evaluating Teaching Goals To Meet the Changing Landscape of Students’ Needs and Study Modes
Place: Trinity College, Hartford CT
Date: June 2, Saturday, 2012
JLTANE invites proposals for papers on topics related to the conference theme, or in other areas pertinent to Japanese pedagogy. Possible example presentation topics concerning the conference theme may be (but not limited to)
- Overview of Student demographical changes in USA and their implications to the classroom instruction
- Goals today’s students in Japanese cite most commonly after the decline of Japanese economic influences in global scene and possible impact on curricular adjustment
- What students do with their Japanese language skills after graduation and the appropriateness of current evaluation methods
- New technological or pedagogical innovations introduced and/or experimented in classroom which address to the increasing use of technology in everyday life
- What are the observed downsides of technology-assisted pedagogy and how to alleviate them
Presentation: 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion
Please email your inquiries and submission to rieko.wagoner@trincoll.edu by April 30, 2012 with the following information.
- Name, affiliation, position, and contact information of the presenter
- Title of the presentation in English and Japanese
- Abstract: (200 – 300 words in English or 500 – 700 characters in Japanese)
- Request for equipment
If you plan to organize a panel on a specific topic, please indicate the panel members’ information as well as the name of the panel leader.
Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by May 10th. The conference proceedings will be published on the conference website (http://commons.trincoll.edu/jltane/).
