JALT2025 - Tokyo

Incorporating humor into task-based language teaching

Nov 1, 2025, 11:00 AM

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) Pedagogy Room 305

Speakers

Peter Neff (Doshisha University, Faculty of Global Communcations) John Rucynski (Okayama University)

Description

The presenters will detail a framework for developing or modifying traditional language teaching tasks to include a humor-based component. They will also demonstrate how humor can be incorporated while staying true to the core features of task-based instruction, including allowing for student-initiated humor, considering respective proficiency levels, maintaining a connection with the curriculum, and providing post-task peer review and teacher feedback.

Summary

The presenters will detail a framework for developing or modifying traditional language teaching tasks to include a humor-based component. They will also demonstrate how humor can be incorporated while staying true to the core features of task-based instruction, including allowing for student-initiated humor, considering respective proficiency levels, maintaining a connection with the curriculum, and providing post-task peer review and teacher feedback.