LET-FMT-SIG: Fundamental Theory SIG, Japan Association for Language Education & Technology

Date & Time : July 21st (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Uegahara Campus) G building Room IS-104 (not regular 104, it's IS-104) The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of : Sch ü tze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 4 Cognitive Load (pp. 67-85) will be led by : Kohei Miki (Lecturer at Otemon Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/7000012383/ The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Mehrasa Alizadeh (Osaka University, Ph.D. candidate) https://mehrasaalizadeh.academia.edu/ Title : Teaching Academic English to Japanese University Students: Development and Quality Assessment of a Blended EGAP Course (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Uegahara Campus) G building Room 104 Address : 1-155 Uegahara Ichibancho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo 662-8501 Access https://www.kwansei.ac.jp/pr/pr_000374.html Campus Map (English) ht...

In the first part of the meeting,  Yukari Isobe (Associate Professor at Kyoto Seika University) https://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/edu/faculty/isobe-yukari/ led a group reading of: Sch ü tze (2017). Language Learning and the Brain. Chapter 3 Synaptic Connections. In the second part of the meeting, Phillip Clark (Instructor of EFL at Kwansei Gakuin University) https://www.kwansei.ac.jp/s_is/s_is_206266.html#37 presented his current research: The Use of Class Participation as Part of an Assessment Rubric. Finally a nice looking group photo was taken!