On May 30th , Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto will be conducting a workshop with Gunma JALT on the topic of young learner language teaching and learning. This event will be held online via Zoom and will be free to attend. The workshop will include discussions based on questions submitted by members around extensive reading and speaking assessment of young learners. Barbara will also look at common issues and questions that teachers often have in their roles as teachers of young language learners, including how to develop conversation skills and how to teach mixed ability classes.
Zoom link will be provided on the Gunma JALT Facebook Group
May 30th, 2021 2:00 to 4:30PM
Free
came to Japan in 1985 with an MATESOL and a plan to teach for two years. While she has left the country since then, she always seems to return. Barbara is a co-author of one of the world’s best-selling textbook series for children learning English, Let’s Go (Oxford University Press), co-author of the online course, English for Teachers (International Teacher Development Institute), and author of the chapter, The role of technology in early years language education, in Early Years Second Language Education (Routledge, 2015). She is an English Language Specialist with the United States State Department and is Course Director for International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi.pro).