As a follow up to my last post, I wanted to post a link to Ema Ushioda’s talk at JALTCALL 2015. Ema Ushioda has done some extraordinary work on second language learning motivation with Zoltan Dornyei, and is at the cutting edge in this area. Missing her talk was one of my biggest regrets in missing this year’s conference.
Rab Paterson at JALTCALL 2015
I missed the JALTCALL conference this year but was happy to see that some of the plenaries were videotaped and uploaded to Youtube. In this one, Rab Paterson outlines some of the things we could and should be doing with our learners in Japan.
Found this in my draft box
This teacher has the right idea about engaging learners. I wonder if this would work with my students.
Educated but Misinformed
I stumbled across this interesting blog post with some timely reminders for how to help learners avoid misunderstandings and develop a little healthy humility and skepticism. Classes start for me tomorrow. Wish me luck.
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/25-reasons-we-think-were-right-when-were-not/