Ev2010 June Nakasendo call

Nakasendo Conference 2010 Sunday June 20th 2010 (at Tokyo Kasei University)

Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers

Call for Papers for Learner Development (LD) SIG & Framework and Language Portfolio (FLP) SIG members

Deadline for proposals:

Sunday March 28th

Conference theme This year’s Nakasendo Conference sees the FLP SIG and LD SIG collaborating on the theme of self-assessment under the umbrella conference theme of ‘Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers’.

SIG focus Learner Development aims to focus on self-assessment issues in the classroom (and/or in self-access, virtual learning and other types of extra-mural learning), while Framework and Language Portfolio intends to look at learner training for self-assessment.

Areas of concern might include any of the following:

    • appropriate self-assessment tools and genres (discussion, questionnaires, learning, logs and diaries, journal writing, portfolios, among others)

    • benefits, drawbacks and threats that self-assessment offers

    • dealing with disparities in self-assessment

    • L1/L2 use in self-assessment

    • learner positions towards self-assessment

    • near-peer models in self-assessment

    • peer roles in self-assessment

    • problems and challenges in moving from test-based evaluation to self-assessment

    • questions of reliability and trustworthiness in self-assessment

    • self-assessment and autonomous learning

    • self-assessment and language advising

    • self-assessment and learner and teacher identities

    • self-assessment in and/or across different skills areas

    • self-assessment of skills, knowledge development, and/or language development

    • self-regulation and self-assessment

    • stages in the development of self-assessment

    • teacher roles in learner self-assessment

    • the development of context-sensitive descriptors for self-assessment

    • the personalization of self-assessment

    • the selection and negotiation of areas of focus for self-assessment

    • the use of technology in self-assessment, and so on…

Download the complete Call for Papers for LD SIG and FLP SIG members below. See the Nakasendo website at http://jalt.org/chapters/omiya/nakasendo2010/index.html