SUTLF 2024 (Language Teaching and Brain Science) Fully Hybrid

Session

Workshop

3 Feb 2024, 10:40

SILC Building (Sojo University)

7. Cognitive Load Theory: How Learning Works in the Classroom

03/02/2024, 10:40

Language Teaching and Brain Science

Practice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）

Have you ever wondered how the content you’re teaching in class makes its way into your students’ brains? Well, that journey begins from their eyes and ears, which send information to their Sensory Memory. From there, the salient bit of sensory input–ideally that new content being taught–makes its way to a student’s Working Memory. After a couple of minutes, that new information finishes its...

22. Brain-friendly Study Skills for Teachers and Students: The Dragon and the Rider in our Brain

03/02/2024, 10:41

Language Teaching and Brain Science

Practice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）

Supported by research findings, the Brain-friendly Study Skills workshop proposes a bottom-up and health-conscious approach to enhance learning productivity for you and your students. Bottom-up in order to work on learning problems at the root causes, and health-conscious because, on top of the obvious health benefit to be expected, healthy lifestyles are often more productive. The workshop...

12. Seriously, That's How the Brain Does Language?

03/02/2024, 10:41

Language Teaching and Brain Science

Practice-focused workshop (45 minutes) 実践報告ワークショップ（４５分）

We now have an understanding of how the brain does language. Embodiment is the key, meaning that almost all meaning comes from the way your brain records experiences as sensory routines. Language too is stored in motor-sensory models. If you hear the expression coffee-colored dog, you not only activate sensory routines for the sight and smell of a dog, but for coffee too, and more. This view...