JALT2025 - Tokyo

Session

Room 417

417

1 Nov 2025, 11:00

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

597. Simulating Global Collaboration in Language Learning

Eileen Kuepper

01/11/2025, 11:00

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes)

This session explores how an intercultural business simulation connects students from Germany, Jordan, and Kosovo in a virtual collaboration. Through startup planning, social entrepreneurship, and English communication, students develop language skills, intercultural competence, and sustainable thinking. Challenges such as cultural misunderstandings and time zones become learning moments. The...

108. Can L2 learners understand irony? A study of Chinese university students’ ability to understand irony

Rod Ellis (Curtin University)

01/11/2025, 11:35

Sociocultural Linguistics and Pragmatics

Practice-oriented Workshop (30-minutes)

112 foreign language learners and 24 native speakers completed a test measuring their ability to understand irony in English. Whereas the NSs could access ironic meaning directly and rapidly, even those learners with advanced language proficiency had difficulty in recognizing irony and needed to rely on explicit processing strategies. The study indicates that the ability to understand irony is...

593. Bridging Theory and Practice: Task Design with CEFR Mediation Descriptors

Dr Noriko Nagai (JALT)

01/11/2025, 12:10

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes)

This workshop first demonstrates how to apply the cognitive mediation descriptors from the CEFR to design tasks and scaffolding strategies for a project-based English course. The aim is to foster collaborative sense-making and enhance learners’ cognitive competences by encouraging them to articulate their own ideas clearly and engage constructively with others’ perspectives. Then, participants...

707. From Barriers to Bridges: A Decade of ASP Impact

Ladomchanh Khantry (National University of Laos)

01/11/2025, 13:20

Highlighted Speaker

This presentation explores the transformative impact of the Academic Support Program (ASP) at the National University of Laos, which has supported students with disabilities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. By integrating academic support, life skills development, counseling, and teacher training, the program has empowered students to overcome barriers and thrive in higher education....

598. From Simulation to Skill: Student-Centered

Eileen Kuepper

01/11/2025, 14:30

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes)

This interactive workshop explores how student-centered simulation projects can build intercultural competence and language skills. Based on a decade-long global collaboration, participants will experience authentic tasks, reflect on cultural dynamics, and leave with low-threshold templates for designing their own accessible, meaningful projects. Emphasis is placed on student agency,...