JALT2025 - Tokyo

Harnessing the Power of Graphic Organizers to Develop Elementary School Students' Metacognitive Awareness in Speech Performances

Nov 2, 2025, 2:20 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (30-minutes) Teaching Younger Learners Room 407

Speaker

Ellie Fujimoto (Hinode Gakuen Elementary School)

Description

This workshop will present how graphic organizers can become language barriers-free and child-friendly tools for teachers of younger learners to make their learners more metacognitively aware of their speech performances. The presenter will show how graphic organizers such as the Y chart, the pyramid chart, the KWLT chart and other graphic organizers were employed to make self- and peer assessment more visible for elementary school students.

Summary

This workshop will present how graphic organizers can become language barriers-free and child-friendly tools for teachers of younger learners to make their learners more metacognitively aware of their speech performances. The presenter will show how graphic organizers such as the Y chart, and the pyramid chart were employed to make self- and peer assessment more visible for elementary school students.